Turkey’s first bi-monthly magazine on Kurdish history has hit the bookshelves. Published in Turkish, “Kürt Tarihi” (“Kurdish History”) delves into the annals of the Kurdish past, long overlooked by ...

In Istanbul, I asked Turkish President Abdullah Gul why the Turkish state has been unable, over the course of its nearly 90-year history, to find peace with its Kurdish citizens, and what chance there ...

Iencountered patriarchy and male dominance presiding over women and life, all in conjunction with the occupation of my ...

As the skies over northeastern Syria blackened with smoke this week, as Turkish warplanes swooped down and gunfire and shelling resumed in what had briefly been an oasis of relative peace in the ...

With a population exceeding 30 million, the Kurds are the largest ethnic group in the world without their own state. Instead, they are spread across Iraq, Iran, Syria, and Turkey. Kurds have been ...

Adlai Stevenson, two-time candidate for president of the United States, was fond of quipping that for the Americans every question must have an answer and every story a happy ending. In his first ...

MOORHEAD — Though they’ve never met, three Moorhead residents and a Columbus, Ohio, man share a kinship that easily bridges the miles between them. They are united through their shared Kurdish ...

IRBIL, Iraq, Feb. 2 -- A city long accustomed to mourning the losses of war was draped in black Monday for victims of dual suicide bombings that shocked and frightened its ethnic Kurdish inhabitants ...

U.S. officials began an intense lobbying effort Saturday to defuse Turkish threats to launch a cross-border military attack against Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq and to limit access to critical air ...

Kurdish communities across the globe honored their national symbol on Wednesday, reflecting on decades of struggle, pride, and the ongoing fight for autonomy.

BAGHDAD Reuters) -Masoud Barzani, the Iraqi Kurdish leader who first took up arms against Saddam Hussein as a teenage guerrilla, remains a towering figure in Kurdish politics as Iraq heads into its ...

Kurds everywhere take pride that there is now a place where the Kurdish flag flies, official business is conducted in Kurdish and Kurdish-speaking professors teach Kurdish history in Kurdish ...