ANKARA, Turkey (AP) – Turkey on Tuesday announced plans to introduce elective Kurdish language instruction in schools, a step aimed at easing tension that Kurdish minority activists argued didn’t go ...

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - A Turkish government proposal to end a decades-long conflict with Kurdish militants has put Kurdish rights back in the spotlight, at a time when Kurdish leaders say repression is ...

For decades, the call for a Kurdish National Congress has recurred in political and intellectual debates within Kurdish ...

Northeast Syria (Rojava) is not a marginal episode of recent history, nor is it a local conflict that can be explained only ...

The Syrian Kurds lost not because they were wrong, but because their protection was conditional. Armenia now faces the same ...

In the heat of the day, groups of Syrian refugee students walk purposefully to the learning centre in Domiz refugee camp. Here, they are studying the local Kurdish dialects in preparation for the new ...

The Diyarbakır prosecutor's office decided to drop the trial against the parents of 10-year-old M.Ö. and Mayor Abdullah Demirbaş. With the support of Demirbaş the girl had given Kurdish lessons at ...