Eastern and Western churches will celebrate Easter on the same day this year, while marking 1,700 years since the Council of ...

Surp Giragos is the largest Armenian church in the Middle East, and it’s at least 500 years old. But the community it serves has dwindled to just a handful of Armenian families in the predominantly ...

This year’s Newroz festival in Diyarbakir drew huge crowds with one hope: to finally find a political solution to the decades-long conflict in the Kurdish region. A Newroz message from the imprisoned ...

His arrest marks yet another episode in Türkiye’s relentless struggle for power. İmamoğlu has been charged with “establishing ...

Turkey is classified as a “brown country” with both democratic and authoritarian features, but democracy, legality, and ...

It is necessary to understand the context behind Imamoğlu's arrest and the PKK peace process, two seemingly contradictory ...

Newroz, meaning "New Day," is the Kurdish New Year, marking the arrival of spring and symbolizing renewal, freedom, and ...

In late March, members of Japan's Kurdish community gathered at a park just outside Tokyo to celebrate "Newroz," or "New Day," a festival ... One writer in his 40s fled Turkey for fear of ...

Turkey's crackdown on President Tayyip Erdogan's main rival and silence on what reforms might follow the end of a 40-year conflict with Kurdish militants are stoking distrust among Kurds.

DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (Reuters ... One sign of common thinking did emerge as Kurds celebrated the March 21 Newroz spring festival. Erdogan suggested making it a national holiday, echoing a bill ...

In Turkey's Kurdish Heartland ... One sign of common thinking did emerge as Kurds celebrated the March 21 Newroz spring festival. Erdogan suggested making it a national holiday, echoing a bill ...