Tuesday, 4 September, 2018 , 02:57 AFP — Hanife Yildiz, 66, says she last saw her only son, Murat, in 1995 -- when he was 19 and she handed him to Turkish police for questioning.

Saturday, 1 September, 2018 , 16:51 AFP — Police in Istanbul on Saturday blocked a weekly demonstration by Turkish mothers demanding state accountability over the fate of relatives who disappeared in the 1980s and 1990s.

Monday, 27 August, 2018 , 11:33 AFP — Turkey banned a weekly rally staged since the mid-1990s by mothers protesting against the disappearance of their sons and relatives on the grounds that it had been exploited by a terror group, the interior minister said Monday.

Saturday, 25 August, 2018 , 16:43 AFP — Istanbul police on Saturday broke up a regular demonstration by Turkish mothers remembering the disappearance of relatives in the 1980s and 1990s, detaining almost 50 people as participants marked the 700th such weekly protest.

Saturday, 25 August, 2018 , 15:22 AFP — A senior US diplomat visited Kurdish-held territory in Syria on Saturday as the minority negotiates with Damascus over the future of its semi-autonomous region.

Saturday, 25 August, 2018 , 12:06 AFP — Istanbul police on Saturday broke up a regular demonstration by Turkish mothers remembering the disappearance of relatives in the 1980s and 1990s, detaining over 20 people as participants marked the 700th such weekly protest.

Friday, 24 August, 2018 , 13:19 AFP — A former lawmaker from the pro-Kurdish People's Democratic Party has requested asylum in Greece after fleeing Turkey in violation of conditional prison release terms, a police source said Friday.

Thursday, 9 August, 2018 , 10:33 AFP — Syria's Kurdish minority, hailed as an indispensable Western ally during the war against the Islamic State group, faces hard bargaining with Damascus to save its hard-won autonomy.

Monday, 6 August, 2018 , 12:25 AFP — Turkish authorities on Monday conducted a hugely sensitive operation to move a centuries-old bath house weighing 1,600 tonnes to new location to avoid being engulfed under floodwaters by a controversial dam project.

Sunday, 5 August, 2018 , 20:53 AFP — A Kurdish-Arab coalition in Syria on Sunday denied a Human Rights Watch report that it was recruiting children from displacement camps in the country's northeast in violation of international law.