Language is never just a means of communication. It is identity, memory, access, and belonging. Across the Middle East, few ...

Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa issued a decree on Friday declaring Kurdish a "national language", in an apparent gesture of ...

Syrian President Ahmad Al Shara has issued a presidential decree recognising Kurdish citizenship and language rights, while ...

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 ...

Harvard offered its first Kurdish Language course in the University’s history this fall after students from Kurdish-speaking backgrounds pushed for its creation. The course focuses not only on the ...

Syria's interim president surprised the country's Kurdish citizens with a decree enshrining their culture and language as an ...

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 ...

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 texts of a 41-year-old writer always win against what is written by a 10-year-old girl." In Turkey as part of the Belongings project, which offers a platform for Kurdish and Sámi writers to meet ...

The Kurds are widely believed to be the largest stateless ethnic group in the world.

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 ...

The change has been made on the grounds that permission by the Council of Higher Education (YÖK) is required to change the medium of instruction to another language than Turkish. The change has been ...