Catch up on the weekend’s most important developments with Balkan Insight’s digest of news from countries across the region.

After the PKK began to disarm this month, Turkey said a ‘critical threshold’ had been crossed following decades of conflict. Those most affected by the fighting are still to be convinced, amid ...

Pristina Basic Court on Friday ordered 30 days of detention for a police officer who was arrested the day before on espionage allegations. Bojan Jevtic, an ethnic Serb from the eastern town of ...

Turkish government hails new measures – which will apply only to people who previously obtained Schengen visas – and have not violated any visa rules.

When BIRN was founded two decades ago, media freedom in the Balkans faced serious challenges, but there was hope; now, the prospects are even bleaker.

Former Prime Minister Agim Ceku and nine others were found guilty of falsifying war veterans’ lists to enable people to claim welfare benefits, and sentenced to a year in prison each.

Many Roma families who live in informal settlements in Kosovo lack official documents showing they have a right to live in their homes, causing them to worry constantly that they might be moved on.

The archaeological site of Skupi, the ancient predecessor of today’s capital Skopje, has been spared inept restoration – only to fall into neglect and oblivion.

On the ninth anniversary of the 2016 failed coup attempt, which the government says supporters of cleric Fethullah Gulen orchestrated, another 306 people were detained across the country.

Already repurposed due to legal challenges, Italy’s asylum centres in Albania cost more than originally planned and much more than similar facilities in Italy itself, offering a potential lesson ...