No Right Turn

Trump and Erdogan have much in common – and the Kurds will be the tragic victims of their idiocy

Canan Kaftancioglu is a Turkish politician and member of the opposition Republican People's Party (CHP). Like most modern politicians, s...

Genocides begin in the wilderness, far from prying eyes – in Ottoman Turkey as well as Nazi Germany

Three months ago, Turkey's increasingly authoritarian government suffered a shock loss in local elections, losing the mayoralty of Istan...

This new history of the Christian genocide during the Ottoman Empire sounds a dark warning for the future

The story of the Armenian Legion is finally being told – and it is a dark tale of anger and revenge

A US trade war with Turkey over a little known pastor? Don't believe a word of it

Erdogan has released the genealogy of thousands of Turks – but what is his motive?

On the ground in Afrin, it’s hard to know what Kurdish fighters really stand for Inside Afrin, the true victims of Turkey's invasion of...

Turkey has arrested six human rights activists for "terrorism" : Amnesty International urged the British government to end its si...

Fethullah Gulen is facing extradition to Turkey by Donald Trump – so he should read up about his country

Turkish dictator Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is currently visiting the USA. This being the USA, Land Of Free Speech, naturally there are protests. ...

It is President Erdogan's Turkey, not humane Germany, that is guilty of 'Nazi practices'

Opposition to the death penalty has been a longstanding plank of UK foreign policy. But under the Conservative government, they seem to be g...

Victims of Israeli raid on Gaza flotilla fear legal case will be dropped over new political deal

A beautiful mosque and the dark period of the Armenian genocide

A quarter century after I was arrested by Turkish police, things have only got worse for Kurdistan

This is what it feels like to be an ordinary Kurd caught in the tragedy of Turkey’s turmoil

Why did President Erdogan restart the battle with the Kurdish PKK? The answer lies in the tale of the failed coup

Destruction in Kurdish capital of south-east Turkey is dark mirror to Syria