ANKARA, Turkey, Dec. 23 (UPI) -- Pro-Kurdish lawmakers in Turkey are awaiting direction from the imprisoned head of the militant Kurdistan Workers' Party on the leadership of their party. Turkey ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - The transitional government in Damascus regards Kurdish as a "foreign" language, a senior Syrian official told Rudaw on Sunday. This comes despite the presence of a large ...

ISTANBUL, Aug 19 (Reuters) - A Kurdish militant group said on Monday it was keeping its side of the bargain in a peace process with Turkey to end a 29-year-old insurgency, rejecting Prime Minister ...

.Newly-elected President Abdullah Gül had chosen to visit five provinces in the East and South-East of Anatolia for his first domestic tour. The last stop was Diyarbakir, a Kurdish-majority city.

A Kurdish member of parliament was allowed to begin her speech in Kurdish, a move permitted by the nationalist deputy speaker of the parliament during a session on the budget of the presidency and its ...

I was sitting on the dirt floor of a hut on the Tigris River in northwestern Iraq, just outside the booming territory established by Iraqi Kurds 21 years ago in 1991, a place that today looks ...

VIRANSEHIR, Turkey — Being a mayor in southeastern Turkey, where most people are Kurdish, can be tricky. You’ve got to satisfy the voters’ desire to express their ethnic identity more openly, without ...

This is how Kurdish poet Ahmadi Khani expressed his people’s feelings in “Love and Life,” the epic he composed in 1690. A statue of Kurdish writer, poet, astronomer and philosopher Ahmad ...