Teacher Zak Amin checks the work of student Rayan Salih during a Kurdish language and culture class at Moorhead High School.

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - A senior official at University of Rojava said Kurdish-language education in northeast Syria (Rojava) has produced a new generation of fluent Kurdish speakers after nearly 15 ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - The younger brother of jailed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Ocalan has strongly criticized Turkey’s main pro-Kurdish party for allegedly failing to give ...

An earlier policy of improving language rights for Kurds in Turkey under Recep Tayyip Erdogan has fallen by the wayside. When Turkey’s health minister, Fahrettin Koca, announced in September that ...

Qamishli, Syria — Abdo Shehu sits in an office in Kurdish-majority Qamishli in northeast Syria, surrounded by copies of the first Western novel available in the city in his own language. The novel is ...