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Erdoğan hails ‘progress’ in bid to resume Kurdish talks

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Wednesday said "significant progress" had been made in efforts to revive dialogue between Ankara and the outlawed Kurdistan...

İstanbul mayor challenges gov’t to uphold his conviction to relieve pressure on party

A defiant Ekrem İmamoğlu, the popular mayor of İstanbul, has called on the government to ensure that his conviction in a politically charged trial...

Far-right leader expects Öcalan to announce PKK’s dissolution after second prison visit

Devlet Bahçeli, the chairman of Turkey’s far-right Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), has said he expects an announcement from Abdullah Öcalan, leader of the outlawed...

Erdoğan hints at running for re-election after calling 2024 local elections his last

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has implied that he may run for re-election in 2028, despite previously announcing that the 2024 local elections would...

Erdoğan says potential peace talks with PKK will be aimed at its dissolution

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said any potential peace talks between his government and the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) would aim at...

Survey shows ruling AKP narrowly leading CHP with just over a 1-point margin

Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) would secure a narrow lead of a little more than one point over the main opposition Republican...

Symbolic protest touted by main opposition leader draws ridicule, indignation

Özgür Özel, the leader of Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), said earlier Thursday that he had a surprise announcement to make, which...

Pro-Kurdish party briefs main opposition, other parties on meeting with jailed PKK leader

Delegates from the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party) continued a marathon of meetings with political parties this week, briefing them on...

Turkey proposes that transitional government take over ISIL camps in Syria

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan has said the transitional government in Syria installed after the ouster of President Bashar al-Assad should take over the...

Veteran Kurdish politician rules out meeting with Syria’s PYD as part of new peace process

Respected politician Ahmet Türk, 82, who is among a group of Kurdish politicians conducting talks as part of a new process aimed at resolving...

After Öcalan meeting, Turkey’s opposition MPs brief speaker, far-right leader

A delegation from Turkey's pro-Kurdish opposition Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party) met on Thursday with the parliament speaker and a far-right leader...

Another MP resigns from an opposition party amid rumors of defections to Erdoğan’s AKP

Mustafa Yeneroğlu, an İstanbul MP and one of the founders of the opposition Democracy and Progress Party (DEVA), has resigned from the party, citing...

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