Something remarkable happened last week, though it didn’t get the attention it deserved: A long and brutal war came to an end ...

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In response, a Kurdish lawmaker brought the flag to the legislature to defend it. The controversy began when Ankara Mayor Mansur Yavas, a member of the opposition Republican People's Party (CHP ...

City St George's, University of London provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation UK. Public sector workers in Iraqi Kurdistan, a semi-autonomous region of northern Iraq, have ...

FILE - In this file photo dated Wednesday, March 21, 2018, a youth holds a flag with the image of Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed leader of the rebel Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, in Istanbul ...

Surprisingly, both accused me of supporting terrorism, simply for speaking the truth. The Kurdish flag. Credit: William John Gauthier / Flickr Credit: William John Gauthier / Flickr I met Basheer, a ...

Tehran is upping the ante in its effort to go after Iranian Kurds abroad it deems "terrorists," demanding that Baghdad extradite leaders and members of Iranian-Kurdish opposition groups based in ...

She, too, was familiar with the vibrant colors of the Kurdistan flag, a daughter of the sun. Jina’s Kurdish identity was not irrelevant to her death. It is more than likely that the morality ...

Kurdish music was playing and Kurdish travellers wearing hats decorated with Kurdish flags and script began dancing. An announcement was issued that all the travellers on the buses were going to ...

However, the most memorable experience was seeing the Israeli flags at rallies for the Kurdistan Region’s referendum on independence. It was a display that was by Kurds and for Kurds ...