A 14-year-old armed with five guns opened fire at a Turkish school on Wednesday, killing nine people, wounding 13 and sparking scenes of mayhem as students jumped out of windows to escape.
A practising Muslim in a secular party, he has won support from a wide spectrum of voters.
Istanbul's Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu is widely seen as the biggest challenger to Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Istanbul's powerful mayor Ekrem Imamoglu is President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's biggest political rival who has had hurdle after hurdle thrown at…
Jailed militant leader Abdullah Ocalan's call for his Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) to disband and lay down its arms after decades of armed s…
Kurdish fighters make up the bulk of the US-backed Syrian Defence Forces (SDF) that are operational in northeastern Syria
The deadly conflict between Kurdish militants and the Turkish security forces has claimed more than 40,000 lives
The Kurdistan Workers' Party had waged a decades-long insurgency against the Turkish state
The conflict, which began in 1984, has claimed more than 40,000 lives, with Turkey's Kurdish-majority southeast bearing the brunt of the bloodshed
Jailed PKK founder Abdullah Ocalan holds his declaration in a photograph with members of a delegation from the pro-Kurdish DEM party who visit…