The BRICS group, which includes countries such as Russia, China, and Iran, was formed to challenge the global power of developed Western nations.

A bipartisan group of House members introduced legislation this week to redesignate Turkey at the State Department as a Middle Eastern country, rather than a European country, describing the move as a message to Turkey about its turn away from its relationships with Europe and the United States and shift toward U.S. adversaries.

Kurdistan Workers Party, in a major development, declares a ceasefire following a call from its imprisoned founder, Abdullah Ocalan.

ANKARA (Reuters) -Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday that a disarmament call from the jailed leader of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), Abdullah Ocalan, started a new phase in the efforts for a "terror-free Turkey".

Kurdish militant leader Abdallah Ocalan has asked his followers in the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) to lay down arms and dissolve the group, potentially ending a decades-long conflict with Turkey that is estimated to have killed at least 40,

Turkey's foreign minister will reiterate at Sunday's meeting of European leaders in London an offer from Ankara to host peace talks between Ukraine and Russia, a Turkish diplomatic source said on Saturday.

After decades of fighting an insurgency, the Kurdish group declared a cease-fire. Two days earlier, the P.K.K.’s imprisoned leader called on his fighters to lay down their arms.

“None of our forces will take armed action unless attacked,” it added. The PKK, designated a terrorist group by Turkey, the United States and the European Union, has waged an insurgency since 1984 with the aim of carving out a homeland for ...

Not the bird, the country. Turkey plans to export 420 million eggs to the United States this year, the most ever, according to the Egg Producers Central Union in Turkey. The ramped-up exports come ...

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — The imprisoned leader of the Kurdistan Workers' Party has called on his organization to disarm and dissolve as part of a new effort to end 40 years of fighting between the state and the banned militant group.

Abdullah Ocalan’s appeal raised the prospect of an end to a conflict between Turkey and the PKK that since the 1980s has killed an estimated 40,000 people.