The case against Roni is just one among a slew of outrageous cases over the past year in which Kurdish language songs, dances, and promotion of cultural and linguistic rights have been interpreted ...

One of those is the right to receive two hours of Kurdish language education in school, a move introduced by Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan in 2012 as an "historic step" in a country which once ...

If you can’t point to Kurdistan on a map, you’re not alone ... What is clear is a Kurdish ethnic identity and common language. Those commonalities emerged around the Middle Ages.

Long-suppressed by the Assad regime, the Kurdish language underwent an educational and cultural revival in Syria over the ...

Kurdistan—Land of the Kurds—exists only in two spheres. One is on maps sold in bazaars wherever the Kurdish language is spoken. The other is on yellow-red-and-green flags Kurds sometimes wave ...

Teacher Zak Amin checks the work of student Rayan Salih during a Kurdish language and culture class at Moorhead High School.