Militants from the Kurdish ethnic group who have fought an insurgency against Turkish authorities for more than four decades have declared a ceasefire, in what may represent a significant political ...

An activist group says that the Turkish Cypriot leader in the breakaway north of the ethnically divided island of Cyprus is ...

Among them, the Tatars are the largest ethnic group, numbering over 5.3 million according to the 2010 census, and are of Turkic descent. The Tatars and Bashkirs, primarily residing in the ...

Over the past decade, the Turkish military has routed PKK forces from major Kurdish cities in southeastern Turkey. The Kurds are an ethnic group of roughly 40 million people — there are widely varying ...

Recent clashes between anti-government groups and security forces in Syria have put the Alawite community in the spotlight.

No single ethnic group has a decisive majority among Afghanistan ... The Hazara, believed to have origins in Central Asian and Turkic peoples, are around 10 per cent of the population and ...