The background: Kurds, one of the world’s largest stateless ethnic groups, comprise about a fifth of Turkey’s population and are concentrated mainly in the Southeast along the Syrian ...

Militants from the Kurdish ethnic group who have fought an insurgency against ... The announcement came just two days after the leader of the militant PKK group, Abdullah Ocalan, whom Turkey has held ...

Recent clashes between anti-government groups and security forces in Syria have put the Alawite community in the spotlight.

Ocalan's call for disarmament, if acted on by the PKK, is likely to have far-reaching implications for the entire Middle East, including for millions of ethnic ... the group out of Turkey's ...

An activist group says that the Turkish Cypriot leader in the breakaway north of the ethnically divided island of Cyprus is ...

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An ancient clay tablet found in central Turkey suggests that a little known rival ethnic group was closely involved in the establishment of the Hittite Empire more than 3,000 years ago ...