ZAKHO, Kurdistan Region - The third annual Shal and Shapk (traditional Kurdish clothing) festival was held in Duhok ...

A Sulaimani family has been searching for cousins Aram Idris and Mardin Jalal for the past three years after they went ...

As Turkey’s first president ... the government has licensed a Kurdish television channel and allowed a university in Mardin, a historic town near the Syrian border, to open a center for the ...

The tallest man alive, Sultan Kösen stands a staggering 8 feet, 3 inches tall. Born with a hormonal condition called ...

Ahmet Türk, the respected Kurdish politician and dismissed mayor of Mardin, read Öcalan’s words in Kurdish: “The PKK was established when the path to democracy was closed, but now it is necessary to ...

The group was formed in 1978 with the ambition of creating a separate, independent homeland for Turkey's large Kurdish minority, but it later dropped its separatist ambitions and focused on ...

Kurdish militants decide to disband and disarm as part of peace initiative with Turkey, Kurdish media report ANKARA, Turkey -- Kurdish militants decide to disband and disarm as part of peace ...

The Kurdish militant group PKK, whose leader Abdullah Öcalan has been imprisoned since 1999, made the decision to disband in a move towards ending its conflict with Turkey. The Kurdish militant ...

The Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, said Monday that it will disarm and disband as part of a peace initiative with Turkey, raising the prospect of an end to the decades-long insurgency the ...

where the Kurds make up some 20% of Turkey's 86 million population. The U.S., the European Union and Turkey have classified the PKK as a terrorist organization. In its statement, the PKK said ...

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