Truthloader
| Apr 25, 2013
After a convict was paraded through the streets of an Iranian city in women's clothes, the Kurdish community responded with a cross-dressing campaign that has forced the country's top cop to order an end to such punishments. "Being a woman is not ...
Euronews
| Apr 25, 2013
The peace process in Turkey has taken another big leap forward with the PKK's announcement that it has set a date for withdrawal. The Kurdish militant group, which has been fighting for autonomy for 30 years, says it will start moving its thousand...
Mosaic
| Mar 22, 2013
After 30 years of conflict, the imprisoned head of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), Abdallah Ocalan, yesterday issued a statement calling for a ceasefire with Turkey and the withdrawal of PKK fighters from Turkey to northern Iraq. Nicole Watts,...
Al Jazeera English
| Mar 21, 2013
Jailed Kurdish rebel chief Abdullah Ocalan has called for a ceasefire with the Turkish state, raising hopes that a conflict that has killed 40,000 people over 30 years could be nearing its end. He called for his PKK organization's guerrilla fighte...
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Mosaic
| Feb 4, 2013
After almost 30 years of armed struggle, the Turkish government and leader of the Kurdistan Workers Party, PKK, Abdallah Ocalan, are now looking to peace negotiations to resolve the conflict. BBC reports.
Euronews
| Feb 3, 2013
In northern Iraq, at least 33 people have been killed and dozens more hurt in a sucide attack on the police headquarters in Kirkuk. Authorities say two gunmen disguised as police officers drove a car packed with explosives into the building's entr...
Al Jazeera English
| Jan 24, 2013
Syria's Kurdish minority has been caught in the middle of the civil war. While some Kurdish fighters are battling Bashar al-Assad's forces, one group is fighting the Free Syrian Army. Fighters say they haven't made a deal with the regime but are t...
Euronews
| Jan 10, 2013
The execution-style slayings of three Kurdish activists in Paris could wreck the peace process in Turkey -- depending on who did the killing. Kurdish groups believe the Turkish state was behind the women's deaths, while Turkish officials blame an ...
Euronews
| Jan 10, 2013
Three Kurdish women activists, including a founder member of the PKK militant group, were shot in the head at a Kurdish center in Paris. The city's Kurdish community took to the streets to protest the killings, which authorities describe as "surel...
— May 16 at 12:42 pm
...this fact is most dramatically exemplified by the use of chemical weapons by Sadam Hussein on the Kurdish town of Halabja in 1988 that killed as...
The Kurdish people, or Kurds, are an Iranic people native to Southwest Asia, mostly inhabiting a region known as Kurdistan, which includes adjacent parts of Turkey, Syria, Iran, and Iraq. They speak the Kurdish language, which is a member of the Iranian branch of Indo-European languages. The Kurds number about 38 million, the majority living in Southwest Asia, with significant Kurdish diaspora communities in the cities of western Turkey, in Armenia, Georgia, Israel, Azerbaijan, Russia, Lebanon and, in recent decades, some European countries and the United States. The Kurds are an indigenous ethnic minority in the countries of the Kurdistan region, although they have enjoyed partial autonomy in Iraqi Kurdistan since 1991. An irredentist movement pushes for the creation of a Kurdish nation state.
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