Wednesday, 17 March, 2021 , 17:01 AFP — Turkey's pro-Kurdish party was fighting for its political survival on Wednesday after a prosecutor asked the country's top court to shut it down for alleged links to militants waging a deadly insurgency against the state.

Wednesday, 17 March, 2021 , 16:09 AFP — A Turkish prosecutor on Wednesday asked the Constitutional Court to shut down the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), parliament's third-largest group.

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Wednesday, 17 March, 2021 , 15:27 AFP — Turkey's parliament on Wednesday revoked the seat of an opposition party MP and outspoken rights defender after his controversial conviction over a social media post.

Wednesday, 17 March, 2021 , 14:19 AFP — Turkey's parliament on Wednesday revoked the seat of an opposition party MP and outspoken rights defender after his controversial conviction over a social media post.

Tuesday, 16 March, 2021 , 03:48 AFP — Hawker Saber is one of the survivors of the chemical attack Saddam Hussein ordered on the Kurdish town of Halabja 33 years ago but he needs a respirator to stay alive.

Monday, 15 March, 2021 , 10:55 AFP — Turkish intelligence agents have captured a senior figure from a Western-backed Syrian Kurdish militia viewed as terrorists by Ankara, Turkey's state media reported Monday.

Wednesday, 10 March, 2021 , 11:33 AFP — Turkey's pro-Kurdish party is facing a political and legal onslaught that could see it banned and its MPs jailed as President Recep Tayyip Erdogan seeks to strengthen his bid to keep power.

Tuesday, 9 March, 2021 , 03:33 AFP — Syria's decade-long war has seen the country's Kurdish minority make strides towards autonomy while becoming a key ally of the West against jihadists.

Sunday, 7 March, 2021 , 18:34 AFP — Pope Francis on his last night in Iraq Sunday met the father of Alan Kurdi, the drowned Syrian Kurdish toddler who became a symbol of the plight of migrants.