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 ...

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 ...

The PKK's decades-long Kurdish insurgency in Turkey has killed tens of thousands of people. Now its long-time leader says it's time to end the fight.

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 ...