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Turkey has been building military bases on Iraqi territory, the BBC finds, raising fears of an occupation.
This film reveals Turkey’s military expansion in northern Iraq. Its campaign against the militant PKK group has killed Iraqi ...
The conference represents an affront to Syria’s territorial integrity and a provocation against Arab national unity,” Devlet ...
The Kurdish-led force that runs northeast Syria has agreed to integrate into a new national army, but some of its supporters ...
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To resume oil exports through the Iraq-Turkey oil pipeline, APIKUR has called for additional efforts to reach an agreement.
A Swedish journalist arrested on arrival in Istanbul to cover last month's massive street protests goes on trial Wednesday on ...
The arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu brought rare unity among Turkey’s opposition — energy his party hopes will help ...
For months, Turkey’s government has been trying to accomplish three major tasks simultaneously or nearly so to solidify its ...
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President Donald Trump appears to want Turkey to play a bigger role in the region, despite its poor human rights record toward the Kurds and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s long-standing antipathy ...
The meeting was attended by representatives of Kurdish groups from Turkey and Iraq. Kurds made up 10% of the country’s prewar population of 23 million. Kurdish officials have been saying that ...