The Biggest Bucket on the List: An Odyssey Across Central Asia
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Kurds cautiously optimistic about PKK’s ceasefire with Turkey
For more than 40 years, the Turkish government has fought the PKK in eastern Turkey, northern Iraq and Syria. Recent efforts ...
Turkish Cypriot group fears that local leader is Ankara’s man who wants to partition Cyprus
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Turkish top officials make sudden trip to Damascus after Syria's deal with Kurdish-led group
ISTANBUL -- Turkey’s top diplomat, defense minister and intelligence chief paid a sudden visit to Damascus on Thursday, days after Syria’s interim government reached a deal to integrate a U.S backed ...
Kurdish Fighters Called a Truce, but Turkey Kept Up Lethal Strikes
Turkey is still bombing armed Kurdish insurgents in Iraq and Syria, even after their leader urged them to lay down their arms ...