Kurdish artist Nasir Rezazi and academic Dr. Feryad Fazel said on International Mother Language Day that protecting and ...

Human rights observers said Türkiye’s parliamentary report fails to address Kurdish language and identity, leaving the issue ...

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 ...

The Kurdish Language Platform slams Minister of National Education Selçuk, who answered a Parliamentary question by saying, “No language other than Turkish shall be taught as a mother tongue to ...

Harvard offered its first Kurdish Language course in the University’s history this fall after students from Kurdish-speaking backgrounds pushed for its creation. The course focuses not only on the ...

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - A Turkish government proposal to end a decades-long conflict with Kurdish militants has put Kurdish rights back in the spotlight, at a time when Kurdish leaders say repression is ...

"The Language Wound: The use of the mother tongue in education and experiences of Kurdish students", a study from the Political and Social Research Institute of Diyarybakır, suggests bilingual and ...

This article is part of a series examining free expression and information access in civic spaces across six language communities in the MENA region. Nestled within the Kurdistan mountains near the ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Thousands of people marched in the Kurdish city of Qamishli in northeast Syria (Rojava) on Tuesday, calling for national unity and the protection of Kurdish rights in Syria’s ...

The scarcity of online resources highlights an urgent need for improved information accessibility. This statement was originally published on globalvoices.org on 6 September 2023. This article is part ...