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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

As a young man, Jaffer Sheyholislami walked for four nights from Iran to Turkey to escape the Iran-Iraq war. He secured a visa to Canada, became an academic, and dedicated himself to his great passion ...

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 ...

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 ...

Gundis is a Kurdish word for “villagers” that, when spoken in the direction of someone of good humor, is taken as a playful jab at his country roots. Mehmet Duzgun and Mehmet Yavuz are the two ...