Vast and varied, all-you-can-eat buffets at Turkish hotels are a draw for tourists. But they also lead to a lot of food waste, which the Turkish government wants to change.From traditional borek ...

After 40 years of armed struggle against the Turkish state, the outlawed Kurdish PKK will hold a ceremony on Friday to mark a symbolic first step in laying down its arms. The disarmament process will ...

The Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or P.K.K., said that it would lay down its arms and disband, a decision that could reverberate in neighboring countries. By Erika Solomon and Ben Hubbard A Kurdish ...

Moscow moved to impose an informal trade embargo on Turkish goods. MOSCOW — -- Russia and Turkey’s relations continued to deteriorate Thursday as Russian president Vladimir Putin said Turkey’s ...

In the first footage of him to be released publicly in 25 years, Abdullah Ocalan said the P.K.K. insurgency against Turkey would be replaced by politics. By Ben Hubbard and Safak Timur Reporting from ...

Kurdish youths holds a poster of jailed PKK militant group leader Abdullah Ocalan during Newroz celebrations on March 21, 2025 in Diyarbakir, Turkey. — Sedat Suna/Getty Images The outlawed Kurdistan ...

ANKARA, Turkey — A group of 30 Kurdish fighters clad in camouflage fatigues burned their weapons in a large cauldron in northern Iraq on Friday, in a symbolic gesture marking the first concrete step ...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) -- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Tuesday that he will travel to Turkey this week in an attempt to jump-start negotiations on ending Russia's full-scale invasion, ...