It was the culmination of Chinese pressure on the city's remaining liberal voices in a years-long security crackdown.

Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, does not want to risk that. Letting out Selahattin Demirtas, a Kurdish politician and former presidential candidate, would have been a less controversial ...

The long historical journey of the Kurdish freedom movement is a multi-layered series of breaks that have transformed not only the political geography of the Middle East but also the fundamental ...