Tag: kurds

Six of Turkey's leading Kurdish politicians have joined hundreds of jailed militants and activists in a hunger strike now in its 60th day to call for a rebel leader to ...

   Turkish media say 17 soldiers have been killed in a helicopter crash in the country’s southeast. Channel 24 says the helicopter crashed in the district of Pervari in Siirt ...

Years of Turkish state policies of assimilation have put the Kurdish language under threat. But now the government is allowing Kurdish classes as part of the government's policy to ease ...

Thousands of Kurdish protesters have clashed with police in Turkey on what they called a day of resistance in towns and cities across the country. The protesters aimed to draw ...

William Shakespeare’s celebrated play, “Hamlet,” made its Kurdish language premier in the Dutch capital of Amsterdam. The Kurdish play’s inaugural performance by theDiyarbakır Metropolitan Municipality City Theater and the Dutch Rast ...

  Turkey’s state-run news agency says security forces have killed 12 Kurdish rebels in clashes in the southeast, raising the two-day death toll in the fighting to 18. The Anadolu ...

Reassuring Turkey over its fears of a sovereign Kurdish state on its southeastern frontier in northern Iraq, a leading Kurdish official says any independent Kurdistan will still be dependent on ...

Everyone must share in the blame for children choosing to “head to the mountains” to join the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), Diyarbakır police chief Recep Güven said yesterday. Appointed ...

BDP co-chair Selahattin Demirtaş says a negotiation process to solve the Kuridsh woe is impossible while BDP deputies threatened with the lifting of their parliamentary immunity. ‘Such a thing (lifting immunity) ...

A senior US Government official sounded confrontation to Kurdish self-direction in northern Syria, telling on Monday that Syria had better stay united. "We do not ascertain for the future of ...