The Kurds have spent a century fighting for autonomy and confronting brutal repression by Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and Iran.

The Kurdish language is in decline among the younger generations of Kurds in northeast Turkey, where education is primarily ...

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan sees the upheaval in neighboring Syria as an opportunity to thwart Kurdish nationalism.

Kurds in Syria were marginalized during five decades of Assad family rule, with many denied citizenship and wrongly described ...

ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) – A Japanese linguist has authored a book designed to teach the Kurdish language in the Kurmanji dialect ...

DILKURD reiterated its appeal to Kurdish students and their families to ensure the preservation and promotion of the Kurdish ...

A Kurdish woman was among the victims of a school shooting in Sweden earlier this month that left 11 people dead. Her family ...

Celal Adan, deputy speaker of the parliament and a senior figure in the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), visited an art ...

QAMISHLI, Syria — Kurds in Syria were marginalized during five decades of Assad family rule, with many denied citizenship and wrongly described as Arabs. Now they are seizing the chance during ...

such as the use of the Kurdish language and traditional dress. Kurds defied this effort, seeing it as an affront to their cultural freedom. In 1946, they rebelled and formed the Kurdish Mahabad ...

Mugabe loses constitution vote; Thatcher to head British Tories; Stalin-Mao sign treaty; Kurdish revolt in Turkey.

Tuncer Bakırhan, co-chair of the Peoples' Equality and Democracy (DEM) Party, announced that imprisoned Kurdistan Workers' ...