Wars are fought over oil, land, water, but rarely over history, especially about something that happened nearly 100 years ago. But that's what Turkey and Armenia are still fighting over: what to ...

Russia and Turkey have fought more than a dozen wars between each other since the mid 16th century. (Painting by Alexey Popov) A long history of mutual enmity is exacerbating tension between Turkey ...

Germany to Declare Turkey's 1915 War Crimes Against Armenians a Genocide Published Apr 20, 2015 at 2:56 PM EDT Updated Mar 26, 2016 at 9:15 AM EDT ...

This means, Turkey’s sovereignty in the Aegean does not extend beyond 3 miles from its coast. Therefore, the talk of Erdogan and other Turkish officials about a “blue homeland” is propaganda ...

Ankara hoped that with an Islamist-run government in Damascus, Turkey’s regional clout would expand. But as the Syrian civil war dragged on, it created problems for Turkey. Ankara’s efforts to induce ...

Robin Wright writes on Turkey’s war on the Kurds in Syria, which has elicited an alarmed response from NATO, other leaders in the Middle East, and Trump’s political allies in Washington.

The next string of conflicts drastically changed the strategic landscape for both Russia and Turkey. Long-time Russian allies Syria and Libya both collapsed into civil wars in the spring of 2011.

As the war began, Azerbaijan’s objective was to surround the territory of the former Soviet-era Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast (NKAO), attacking from the northwest, the southeast, and the ...

This is Turkey's hidden war — a conflict that erupts into the headlines only when police mount bloody assaults on PKK strongholds like Cizre, as they did in September, but which, for the most ...

Turkey has invoked a “state of war” to ban warships only one other time in history, during the Second World War when it blocked Germany and Italy from using the Turkish straits to access the ...

Key Points and Summary – The current war between Israel and Iran, rooted in decades of irreconcilable differences, could be a “dry run” for a future conflict between Israel and Turkey ...

ANKARA, Nov 4 (Reuters) - Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said Gaza must be part of an independent, sovereign Palestinian state once the Israel-Hamas war is over, and Ankara will not support any ...