Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. With a population exceeding 30 million, the Kurds are the largest ethnic group in the world without their own state. Instead, they are spread across Iraq, Iran, Syria, and Turkey.

Turkey’s first bi-monthly magazine on Kurdish history has hit the bookshelves. Published in Turkish, “Kürt Tarihi” (“Kurdish History”) delves into the annals of the Kurdish past, long overlooked by official institutions engaged in historiography.

In the breathtakingly rugged Turkish province of Hakkari, pristine rivers surge through spectacular mountain gorges and partridges feed beneath tall clusters of white hollyhock. I’m attending the marriage celebration of 24-year-old Baris and his 21-year ...

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 ancestry and the English language, as well as a shared love ...

Language is never just a means of communication. It is identity, memory, access, and belonging. Across the Middle East, few languages embody this reality more clearly than Kurdish, a language spoken by tens of millions,

The renewed attacks on the Kurdish neighborhoods of Sheikh Maqsood and Ashrafiyeh in Aleppo are not perceived by many Kurds as just another brutal episode of the Syrian war. They are experienced as a national trauma.

Kurdish demonstrators carry an image of PKK founder Abdullah Ocalan — Ina FASSBENDER Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed founder of the militant Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), is an icon to many Kurds but a "terrorist" to many within wider Turkish society.

Jailed Kurdish militant leader Abdullah Ocalan's call to disarm sparked relief but also fears for the future among Kurds in Syria and Iraq, who long for peace after fighting hard for autonomy. In a potentially seismic shift in Kurdish history, veteran ...

Dec 1 (Reuters) - The Turkish army carried out an "intense intervention" against Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq on Saturday, sending in special forces a day after the cabinet authorised a cross-border operation. Following are some of the details behind ...

BAGHDAD Reuters) -Masoud Barzani, the Iraqi Kurdish leader who first took up arms against Saddam Hussein as a teenage guerrilla, remains a towering figure in Kurdish politics as Iraq heads into its November 11 election. Though he no longer holds an ...