(Daily Star)- An Istanbul court Saturday remanded in custody ahead of trial nine staff from the opposition Cumhuriyet newspaper, in an intensifying crackdown a day after the leaders of the country's main pro-Kurdish party were also jailed. There had been growing international alarm over the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Two Syrian regime soldiers killed and others injured in clashes between two regime militias in Hasaka on Thursday whereas Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) armed man was injured by a bomb in Gwayran neighborhood south of Hasaka, activists said. Acitivst Abdul Malek al-Ali...

German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Friday requested that the charge d'affaires in the Turkish embassy be summoned to the ministry for discussions about Turkey's arrests of Kurdish opposition lawmakers, the ministry said. "The overnight arrests of politicians and lawmakers...

A dozen lawmakers from Turkey's opposition Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), which has Kurdish roots, were detained on Friday because they refused to give testimony in criminal proceedings, Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said. Democratically elected officials normally can only be forced from...