By bnm Gulf bureau Turkish military aircraft dropped leaflets over mountainous areas in Duhok Province within the Kurdistan ...

"Journalism and media work are important factors in promoting national awareness and preserving and enriching the Kurdish ...

A Kurdish teacher in Iran’s Kurdistan province was jailed on Saturday after being sentenced to five years in prison for ...

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 ...

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

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Kurdish leaders on Tuesday commemorated the 127th anniversary of the publication of the first Kurdistan newspaper and the 27th anniversary of the establishment of the ...

It is blamed on Arab nationalists. 1958 – (SYRIA) The government formally bans all Kurdish-language publications. 1958 – (IRAQ) After Iraq’s 1958 revolution, a new constitution is ...

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 ...

A DEM lawmaker there, Mehmet Zeki Irmez, said his party was gathering local opinions on Kurdish political and language rights. "The state should take steps, but unfortunately we cannot feel this ...