The interim government in Damascus has called for a powerful Kurdish-led militia backed by the United States to disarm and ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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