Beril Eski

1 month ago | washingtonpost.com | Kareem Fahim |Beril Eski

ISTANBUL — Abdullah Ocalan, the imprisoned leader of a Kurdish militant group that has fought a decades-long insurgency against Turkey, issued a call from prison on Thursday asking the movement he founded to lay down its arms and dissolve itself. The comments by Ocalan, who heads the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, were read at a news conference in Istanbul by Kurdish lawmakers and leaders who met with Ocalan on Thursday.

1 month ago | stripes.com | Kareem Fahim |Beril Eski

Kurdish women, one waving a flag of the outlawed Kurdish rebel group, the PKK, applaud while lining the road, as the convoy carrying the body of U.S. citizen Keith Broomfield, killed in fighting with the Islamic State group in Syria, is driven by through Suruc, on the Turkey-Syria border, June 11, 2015. Broomfield was likely the first U.S. citizen to die fighting alongside Kurds against the Islamic State group.

Dec 21, 2024 | washingtonpost.com | Kareem Fahim |Louisa Loveluck |Susannah George |Mohamad El Chamaa |Beril Eski

The Syrian regime's collapse came more quickly than the rebels had dreamed - the circumstances were both serendipitous and part of a larger global realignment. 22 minISTANBUL - Rebels were barreling toward the Syrian capital, but the president's men were in no mood for the battle. For more than a week they had watched city after town fall to the rebellion. By Saturday, the insurgents were threatening Homs, a strategic fire wall of Bashar al-Assad's government.

Oct 26, 2024 | ca.news.yahoo.com | Ruth Michaelson |Beril Eski

From the rooftop of the castle where I’m standing, a panorama of blue-grey turrets stretches into the distance. The effect is like staring into a kaleidoscope. It’s a fairytale sight, the intricate white-painted fronts and curved balconies resembling a collection of adult-sized doll’s houses. The fantasy quickly falls apart, though. Many of the castles further into the complex have only bare concrete facades.

Oct 23, 2024 | postguam.com | Kareem Fahim |Bryan Pietsch |Beril Eski |Sammy Westfall

Gun-wielding assailants on Wednesday attacked the headquarters of Turkish Aerospace Industries, a large Turkish defense and aviation company near the capital, Ankara, killing at least five people and injuring 22 in what Turkish authorities called a “terrorist attack.”Two attackers, a man and a woman, were also killed, Turkish Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya told reporters. Efforts to identify the attackers were ongoing, he said. No group immediately claimed responsibility.