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A history and travelogue that features great suffering and some remarkable people. There is a passage in Oliver Bullough's book that so brilliantly encapsulates the 19th...

Although conflict continues, Kurds in south-eastern Turkey are hoping for a peaceful solution Flying in from Istanbul, the plane breaks through low-level clouds and suddenly...

The run-up to Turkey's EU negotiations is overshadowed by the still-festering Kurdish issue. Since the 1980s it has, according to official figures, claimed 37,000 lives and,...

Recep Tayyip Erdogan's acknowledgment of the 'Kurdish problem' has brought the issue back into sharp focus. David Cronin reports Not for the first time, Turkey's Prime...

Opponents of Turkish accession to the EU often claim that it would damage the cohesiveness of the EU's Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP). They argue that a country...

FRITS Bolkestein has warned that the victory of Christianity over Islam at the 1683 Battle of Vienna might be in vain if Turkey joins the EU. His Austrian colleague Franz...

ABDULLAH Öcalan's arrest highlighted the Kurdish issue in the most visible way since the western powers urged Iraqi Kurds to rise up against Saddam Hussein at the end of the...

HUMANITARIAN Affairs Comm- issioner Emma Bonino has hit back at Ankara's accusations that the EU is interfering in Turkish affairs over the Öcalan case. Bonino said this...