President Recep Tayyip Erdogan sees the upheaval in neighboring Syria as an opportunity to thwart Kurdish nationalism.

Prime Minister of the Kurdistan Region on Tuesday reasserted the Kurdish people’s “legitimate claims” towards self-determination, stressing that the Region has only acted as a catalyst to peace and ...

Kurds in Syria were marginalized during five decades of Assad family rule, with many denied citizenship and wrongly described ...

The Kurds have spent a century fighting for autonomy and confronting brutal repression by Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and Iran.

They were referred to instead as “Mountain Turks.” Kurdish people have suffered discrimination, persecution and massacres by Turkish governments who see Kurdish identity as a threat. The constitution ...

The Kurdish officer said he did not believe the ... In addition, the SDF oversees a detention camp, al-Hol, where tens of thousands of people are held. Many are family members of suspected IS ...

against Turkish airstrikes on the headquarters of the Kurdish fighters from the People's Protection Units (YPG) in Mount Karachok on Tuesday, Syria April 26, 2017. (credit: REUTERS/RODI SAID ...

Dozens of people have been abducted in northwest Syria’s Kurdish enclave Afrin in just over a month, a local watchdog said on ...

Syria’s Kurdish administration plans to clear northeast camps of displaced Syrians, Iraqis, and suspected IS relatives by ...

"I regard the Kurds as the lions of the Middle East for one cannot forget how they were the first to bravely stand against ...