The Kurdish Language Institute (SZK) had been giving Kurdish classes secretly since 2007, and later became part of the Rojava administration’s education board.

Government officials said the songs were an expression of solidarity with the PKK and a threat to national unity. SLOW PROGRESS. Turkey's ban on the Kurdish language was lifted in 1991.

Kurdish language classes are barely accessible to most school children in the national education system in Türkiye, even though by law they should be available as a two-hour per week elective option.

The problem lies in the online sphere, not offline. The Kurdish language is linguistically diverse. Imagine having six words for “خۆشەویستی” (love) alone. Our focus should be on addressing ...

The Assyrian language is part of Semitic languages including Hebrew and Arabic. Assyrian is written from right to left. It is a cursive script where some, but not all, letters connect within a word.

A Russian-language map of Syria released October 23 by the Russian Ministry of Defense displays the 32-kilometer "operation zone" already occupied by the Turkish-led operation against Kurdish-led ...

Harvard offered its first Kurdish Language course in the University’s history this fall after students from Kurdish-speaking backgrounds pushed for its creation.

If you can’t point to Kurdistan on a map, you’re not alone: It’s not a sovereign country. But for Kurds, an ethnic group of roughly 30 million people, it is very real indeed. Nestled on the ...

Abdullah Ocalan, longtime leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), said it’s time to cease military actions against Turkey.

ISTANBUL, Jan 8 (Reuters) - The Turkish government and the jailed leader of a Kurdish insurgency have agreed on the framework for a plan to end a war that has killed 40,000 people since 1984 ...

The Kurdish Language Institute (SZK) had been giving Kurdish classes secretly since 2007, and later became part of the Rojava administration’s education board.