.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.

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 ...

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 ...

The Iraqi Oil Ministry has banned the use of Kurdish words in official documents, threatening Kurdish employees with lawsuits if they violate the ban, Kurdish media report, citing a document issued ...

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 ...

Hüdai Morsümbül, a teacher in Turkey’s southern province of Mersin, was issued a fine for communicating in Kurdish and Arabic with his students and for teaching them Kurdish and Arabic words. An ...

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 ...

Iranian Kurds were risking their lives to protest the government's Islamic dress code. Protests that had begun over the death of a Kurdish woman in "morality police" custody turned into a nationwide ...

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 ...