NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — Nashville State Community College began offering Kurdish language and culture classes in late October to help Nashville residents better serve and relate to the significant ...

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 ...

In the heat of the day, groups of Syrian refugee students walk purposefully to the learning centre in Domiz refugee camp. Here, they are studying the local Kurdish dialects in preparation for the new ...

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey on Tuesday announced plans to introduce elective Kurdish language instruction in schools, a step aimed at easing tension that Kurdish minority activists argued didn't go ...

Kurdish artist Nasir Rezazi and academic Dr. Feryad Fazel said on International Mother Language Day that protecting and modernizing Kurdish requires coordinated institutional support, digital ...

The Turkish government recently lifted a decades-old ban on speaking Kurdish in schools, but a young Kurdish girl fighting for full rights says they still have a long way to go. DIYARBAKIR, Turkey -- ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — The goal to begin Kurdish classes at Metro high schools will have to wait even longer. In January, the Metro Nashville Public School board approved a request to add the ...

The change has been made on the grounds that permission by the Council of Higher Education (YÖK) is required to change the medium of instruction to another language than Turkish. The change has been ...

Speaking at a press conference, Dogan said prohibitions on native languages (or mother tongues) contradict fundamental rights and freedoms, stressing that reducing tensions requires greater cultural ...