NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — The goal to begin Kurdish classes at Metro high schools will have to wait even longer. In January, the Metro Nashville Public School board approved a request to add the ...

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - A Turkish government proposal to end a decades-long conflict with Kurdish militants has put Kurdish rights back in the spotlight, at a time when Kurdish leaders say repression is ...

A group of children dressing in colorful Kurdish clothing attend English language classes in Iran's western Kurdish city of ...

Mehmet Uzun can write in Kurdish, Turkish and Swedish, but his novels are only in Kurdish. The publishing house, GendasYayinlari, has published the writers latest novel, The Prayer of Tigris, ...

Mehmed Uzun, a Kurdish novelist who was prosecuted for criticizing Turkey’s ban on the Kurdish language, died Thursday at a hospital in Diyarbakir, Turkey, after a battle against stomach cancer, his ...

Supporters of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) chant slogans during an attempted march in Istanbul that was dispersed by police, October 30, 2016. (AP Photo / Emrah Gurel) By signing up ...

The scarcity of online resources highlights an urgent need for improved information accessibility. This statement was originally published on globalvoices.org on 6 September 2023. This article is part ...

"The Language Wound: The use of the mother tongue in education and experiences of Kurdish students", a study from the Political and Social Research Institute of Diyarybakır, suggests bilingual and ...

MOORHEAD — Though they’ve never met, three Moorhead residents and a Columbus, Ohio, man share a kinship that easily bridges the miles between them. They are united through their shared Kurdish ...

Selva Ibrahim dreams of a Nashville where a Kurdish grandfather can walk into the public library and check out a book to read to his grandchildren in his native language. As a circulation assistant at ...

This article is part of a series examining free expression and information access in civic spaces across six language communities in the MENA region. Nestled within the Kurdistan mountains near the ...