OP-ED. After staying silent in response to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's use of refugees as blackmail, the ...

The restriction has faced widespread backlash from legal experts, political allies, and digital rights advocates, who view it as an attempt to silence dissenting voices ahead of the 2028 presidential ...

Turkey’s entire political spectrum – from the far Left to the far Right is united around the idea of territorial expansion ...

On 12 May, the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) announced its decision to abandon armed struggle and disband. In a statement, the organisation – designated as a terrorist group – announced that its ...

Abdullah Öcalan, a founder of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, made a surprise call in February for the PKK to lay down its arms ...

The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) has ended four decades of armed struggle against the Turkish state. The PKK, which has ...

In a move that has sparked widespread concern, Turkish authorities have blocked access to the social media account of Istanbul's jailed opposition mayor, Ekrem Imamoglu. This action has drawn ...

Turkish authorities have arrested 18 employees of the Istanbul municipality on corruption charges, days after detaining more than 50 others in a broadening legal crackdown against the city’s jailed ...

The Independent is trusted by Americans across the entire political spectrum ... paid for by those who can afford it. Turkey’s central bank raised its key interest rate by 3.5 percentage ...