Kurdish Pupils Denied Language Lessons in Turkey Amid Wider Curbs, Families Say By Burcu Karakas ISTANBUL (Reuters) - A Turkish government proposal to end a decades-long conflict with Kurdish ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

We want to bridge divides to reach everyone. For years, Kurdish language instructor Aydin Unesi had to teach clandestinely throughout this city in Turkey's southeast region, home to the majority ...

DIYARBAKIR — Years of Turkish state policies of assimilation have put the Kurdish language under threat. But now the government is allowing Kurdish classes as part of the government's policy to ...

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 ...