Both countries have been exchanging angry barbs in aftermath of terror attacks in France
Diyarbakir, the main city in Turkey’s predominantly Kurdish southeast region, has started to benefit from the return of peace for much of the last decade, after being center of a Kurdish rebel conflict. The city has started to enjoy some prosperity and development. But as Dorian Jones reports from Diyarbakir, a recent wave of violent protests has called those successes into question.
Diyarbakir is main city in Turkey’s predominantly Kurdish southeast region
Turkey’s predominantly Kurdish southeast has been rocked by violence between religious and secular Kurds. Dorian Jones reports on the reasons behind the stand-off from the region's main city of Diyarbakir, which suffered the bloodiest fighting.
Much of the anger between the groups is centered around suspicions that more pious Kurds support Islamic State militants
Camp organizers say government has provided little support; ruling party accuses pro-Kurdish HDP of using camps to promote Kurdish rights agenda
The treatment of thousands of Yazidis refugees who fled to Turkey to escape attacks by Islamic State militants has become the center of a dispute between the Turkish government and the country's pro-Kurdish movement. VOA's Dorian Jones reports.
Hayat Boumeddiene spent a few days in Istanbul before the attack on a Paris newspaper and deli
Cumhurriyet probe follows prime minister's condemnation of magazine for publishing a cartoon depicting Muslim Prophet Muhammad
EU demands action by Ankara following arrival on Italian shores of two crewless ships filled with refugees
Move not to send four former ministers to Supreme Court for trial effectively backs president after scandal that had rattled his inner circle
Turkish lira hits record lows following police raids on media groups and arrests of journalists, country's ensuing diplomatic row with European Union
Government dismissed probes as disguised coup attempt, launched massive state purges that continue today
Most were prominent in anti-government protests last year; Erdogan says foreign powers aided demonstrations
Government faces growing international pressure following police raids on media establishments but president says national security is at stake
Police detain 24 people, including top executives; president says those held are part of network conspiring to topple him
Prime minister says draft law aimed at preventing kind of unrest that followed Kurdish protests in October over Kobani
Expert says it is unclear how much Ankara will benefit from new Russian gas pipeline
Columnist says reforms fit with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s goal of creating 'new, pious youth'
London wants Ankara to do more to stop jihadists from using Turkey as route to join Islamic State forces in Iraq, Syria
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