Rolling his cigarette between sips of tea, Suleyman Ilcan is excited about a message from jailed PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan ...

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan sees the upheaval in neighboring Syria as an opportunity to thwart Kurdish nationalism.

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ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Kurdish opposition parties on Thursday slammed the exclusion of Kurds from a top committee tasked ...

Kurds in Syria were marginalized during five decades of Assad family rule, with many denied citizenship and wrongly described ...

Turkey is attempting to form a new coalition to combat ISIS remnants and replace the Pentagon-backed Kurdish forces in Syria.

Iran has reportedly executed some 909 prisoners in 2024, with Kurds making up 20 percent of the total, a human rights ...

For a while, Turkish media affiliated with Erdogan’s government have been spreading false and misleading information linking ...

QAMISHLI, Syria — Kurds in Syria were marginalized during five decades of Assad family rule, with many denied citizenship and wrongly described as Arabs. Now they are seizing the chance during ...

The Kurds, one of the world’s largest populations without a state of their own, have been feeling some control over their lives and want to make that permanent with a new government in power.

The Kurdish language is taught in schools. The new year, Nowruz, can be celebrated openly. The Kurds, one of the world’s largest populations without a state of their own, have been feeling some ...