Signs written in the once-taboo Kurdish language decorate shop windows. By luck, we encounter Ihsan Colemerikli, a Kurdish intellectual whose book Hakkari in Mesopotamian Civilization is a highly ...

The highest number of restrictions occurred in the fields of media and culture and arts.

Discover the 17th Erbil International Book Fair (April 9-19, 2025) at Sami Abdul Rahman Park. 350+ publishers, theme "The ...

Syria’s new education minister, the only Kurd in the cabinet, wants to bridge gaps between the federal education system and ...

They share history and language but have never had a country of their own. That fact has shaped Kurdish identity for generations. Recently, though, Iraqi Kurds, who number about five million ...

The detention of Istanbul's popular mayor risks undermining Turkey's move to end the PKK militant group's 40-year-old ...

The fighters pulled out from the neighborhoods of Sheikh Maksoud and Achrafieh—predominantly Kurdish areas that had been ...

Officials from a pro-Kurdish party liaising with the jailed leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) said they felt more ...

Syrian Kurds are set to demand a federal system in post-Assad Syria that would allow regional autonomy and security forces, a ...