Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan will visit Iraq on Sunday for talks with officials on the fight against Kurdish ...
Turkey has emerged as one of the most influential power brokers in Syria after rebels toppled Bashar al-Assad last month, ...
No country has as much to gain from a stable Syria as Turkey, and few have as much to lose if it implodes. Turkey is home to ...
Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said on Monday that eradication of the Kurdish YPG militia in Syria was "imminent", and that Ankara would not agree to any policy that allowed the YPG to maintain ...
President Erdogan declared Turkey's readiness to combat all terrorists in Syria, including IS and Kurdish groups. He urged ...
Ankara views the YPG as an extension of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), which has been waging an insurgency against the Turkish state since 1984 and is deemed a terrorist group by Turkey ...
Turkey considers the YPG, which spearheads the U.S.-allied Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), as a terrorist group linked to Kurdish militants waging a decades-old insurgency against the Turkish state.
At the same time, Turkey has long seen Syria’s Kurdish forces as a threat. Security in the region that the Kurds dominate is overseen by the armed Syrian Democratic Forces, which include the People’s ...
In a statement on X, the ministry reported that three 'terrorists' from PKK and YPG were 'neutralised' in the Euphrates Shield region of northern Syria. Turkey considers the YPG group as the ...
Turkey Says It Will Mount Offensive Against Kurdish YPG if Demands Not Met ANKARA (Reuters) -Turkey will carry out a cross-border offensive into northeastern Syria against the Kurdish YPG militia ...