• Jailed PKK leader urges militant group to disarm before peace ceremony with Turkey

    Jailed PKK leader urges militant group to disarm before peace ceremony with Turkey

    Jul 09, 2025 11:45 PM EST

    ... bases in the area. The Iraqi government in Baghdad announced last year an official ban on the separatist group, which has long been prohibited in Turkey. On Tuesday, Turkey's intelligence chief, Ibrahim Kalin, traveled to Baghdad to discuss the peace process and other security issues with Iraqi Prime Minister ...

  • Wildfires burn in Turkey as scorching temperatures grip Europe

    Wildfires burn in Turkey as scorching temperatures grip Europe

    Jun 30, 2025 02:21 PM EST

    ... south. Water-dumping planes and some 300 firefighters were mobilized, the regional emergency service said. Tourists were evacuated from one campground in the area. In Turkey, forest fires fanned by strong winds damaged some holiday homes in Izmir's Doganbey region and forced the temporary closure of the airport in ...

  • News Wrap: PKK will disarm and disband in peace deal with Turkey

    News Wrap: PKK will disarm and disband in peace deal with Turkey

    May 12, 2025 10:50 PM EST

    In our news wrap Monday, the Kurdistan Workers’ Party says it's laying down its weapons and disbanding after reaching a peace deal with Turkey, the prime minister of India is warning Pakistan that his country will retaliate against any further attacks and California Gov. Newsom is putting pressure on local governments across the state to...

  • Kurdish militant group PKK will disband as part of a peace deal with Turkey

    Kurdish militant group PKK will disband as part of a peace deal with Turkey

    May 12, 2025 06:06 PM EST

    ... and method of arms collection, monitoring the possible transitions of PKK members into groups in Syria, distinguishing members involved in criminal activities from those who were not, and deciding the appropriate course action concerning the group’s leadership. Cinar Kiper in Bodrum, Turkey and Mucahit Ceylan in Diyarbakir, Turkey, contributed.

  • From Taipei to Turkey, 'Trumpization' looms over international May Day marches

    From Taipei to Turkey, 'Trumpization' looms over international May Day marches

    May 01, 2025 04:31 PM EST

    ... that I lead will work as hard as possible to eliminate poverty from Indonesia,” he said. Istanbul mayor's arrest is focus of protests in Turkey In Turkey, May Day served as a platform not only for labor rights but for broader calls to uphold democratic values. Tens of thousands ...

  • Immigration judge denies bond for detained Tufts student from Turkey, her lawyers say

    Immigration judge denies bond for detained Tufts student from Turkey, her lawyers say

    Apr 17, 2025 10:08 PM EST

    An immigration judge denied bond for a Tufts University student from Turkey who has been detained by authorities in Louisiana for three weeks over what her lawyers say is apparent retaliation for an op-ed piece she co-wrote in the student newspaper. Meanwhile, Rumeysa Ozturk's lawyers filed a ...

  • Detained Tufts student can't be deported to Turkey without court order, judge says

    Detained Tufts student can't be deported to Turkey without court order, judge says

    Mar 29, 2025 04:22 PM EST

    BOSTON (AP) — A Tufts University doctoral student who was detained this week can’t be deported to Turkey without a court order, a federal judge in Massachusetts said on Friday. Rumeysa Ozturk, 30, was taken by masked immigration officials as she walked along a street in the Boston suburb of ...

  • Tufts student from Turkey threatened with deportation, latest Palestinian supporter swept up in crackdown

    Tufts student from Turkey threatened with deportation, latest Palestinian supporter swept up in crackdown

    Mar 27, 2025 04:15 PM EST

    Rumeysa Ozturk, 30, a doctoral student at Tufts University, was swiftly moved out of Massachusetts, a demonstration of how U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is sending immigrants who are taken into custody to detention centers or deporting them altogether before a federal judge has a chance to weigh in on their case and possibly halt...

  • Erdogan accuses the opposition of wrecking Turkey's economy during protests over mayor's jailing

    Erdogan accuses the opposition of wrecking Turkey's economy during protests over mayor's jailing

    Mar 26, 2025 03:35 PM EST

    ISTANBUL — Turkey’s president on Wednesday accused the political opposition of “sinking the economy” during the country’s largest protests in more than a decade over the arrest of Istanbul’s mayor, the biggest challenger to Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s 22-year rule. The opposition has called for a boycott ...

  • News Wrap: Turkey police crack down on protests that erupted after arrest of Erdogan rival

    News Wrap: Turkey police crack down on protests that erupted after arrest of Erdogan rival

    Mar 24, 2025 10:45 PM EST

    In our news wrap Monday, police in Turkey cracked down on protests and dissent that began after the arrest of one of President Erdogan’s main political rivals, more aid groups have come under fire in the escalating violence in the Gaza Strip, Dr. Susan Monarez has been nominated to ...