The complex history of the Kurdish people, from nomadic tribes to modern-day struggles for autonomy and recognition.

Turkey is still bombing armed Kurdish insurgents in Iraq and Syria, even after their leader urged them to lay down their arms ...

This headline alludes to works of literature to illustrate political realities, beginning with Ernest Hemingway's “A Farewell to Arms” and up to the Kurdish author Ronak Murad's famous novel about the ...

They have now reached another turning point. Abdullah Ocalan, leader of the Kurdish Workers Party (PKK) has called on his ...

Kurdish militants who have waged a 40-year ... Turkey's southeast and pressed it deep into the steep and unforgiving mountains of northern Iraq," he said. In recent years, the PKK has been limited ...

Since the 1991 Gulf War, the largely Kurdish northern region of Iraq has been semiautonomous. The P.K.K. leadership is now based in the Qandil Mountains of northern Iraq. In recent years ...