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Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” made its Turkish premiere in the Kurdish language Nov. 26 in a performance by the Diyarbakır City Theater, drawing rave reviews from the culture and tourism minister. “The cultural and ...

Poems in Syriac by Mor Efrem and poems in Kurdish by Ahmed Ceziri have been translated into Turkish at the request of the Culture and Tourism Ministry. The translated works ...

One of the government’s leading Kurdish MPs has vowed to oppose his party’s move to strip opposition MPs of their immunity for chatting with militants, saying the matter must be ...

The recent increase of Iraqi troops in resource-rich contested areas is fuelling fears that the subsequent escalation of tension could develop into full-scale war between the Shiite Iraqi government and ...

This town of 19,000 nestled in an idyllic mountain pass of impossibly green pastures and golden autumn trees is on the front lines of Turkey’s rapidly escalating guerrilla war. In ...

Hundreds of Kurdish prisoners in Turkey have ended a 68-day hunger strike after jailed ex-rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan urged them to do so. The prisoners had been demanding better conditions ...

In a move likely to raise already simmering tensions between the government and the Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) another notch, BDP co-chair Selahattin Demirtaş said yesterday they will erect ...

The autonomous region of Kurdistan in northern Iraq is witnessing an economic boom, drawing back many exiled Kurds who had fled oppression and now dream of helping to create an ...

The upheaval from the "Arab Spring" across the Middle East has given the 30 million Kurds, who live mostly in parts of Iraq, Turkey, Syria and Iran, new hopes of ...

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday that Turkey has been continuing its fight against terrorism in a determined way. "We will keep fighting terrorism," Erdogan said at ...