Sunday, 7 June, 2015 , 22:31 AFP — The leader of the pro-Kurdish People's Democratic Party (HDP) Selahattin Demirtas has emerged as a potent force in national politics after guiding his party past Turkey's notoriously tough 10-percent threshold to win dozens of seats in legislative elections.

Sunday, 7 June, 2015 , 16:34 AFP —

Sunday, 7 June, 2015 , 09:53 AFP — Turkish authorities have detained one suspect over a bomb attack that killed two people at a rally of the pro-Kurdish People's Democratic Party (HDP) just ahead of general elections, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said Sunday.

Friday, 29 May, 2015 , 19:07 AFP — Two people were killed and six others injured in southeastern Turkey on Friday in violence pitting the main pro-Kurdish party against a Kurdish Islamist group, just days before a key parliamentary vote.

Wednesday, 27 May, 2015 , 12:13 AFP — Kurdish forces have driven the Islamic State group from more than a dozen Assyrian Christian villages that the jihadists had captured in northeastern Syria, a monitor said Wednesday.

Wednesday, 27 May, 2015 , 10:41 AFP — Kurdish forces have driven the Islamic State group from more than a dozen Assyrian Christian villages that the jihadists had captured in northeastern Syria, a monitor said Wednesday.

Wednesday, 27 May, 2015 , 09:35 AFP —

Tuesday, 26 May, 2015 , 14:11 AFP — President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday opened a new airport in a restive eastern province dogged by a Kurdish separatist insurgency, naming the facility for a celebrated Muslim medieval leader of Kurdish origin.

Thursday, 21 May, 2015 , 14:23 AFP — Twin bomb attacks on the offices of Turkey's pro-Kurdish People's Democratic Party (HDP) were carried out by a militant linked to an ultra-leftist group, Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said Thursday.

Wednesday, 20 May, 2015 , 16:12 AFP — The separatist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) kidnapped two people, including a member of the Turkish gendarmerie, in the restive east of the country, the army said on Wednesday.