More than a dozen parents, Kurdish politicians and education experts told Reuters their children today could not receive the language classes even in Turkey's largest cities, and not all Kurdish ...

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 far enough.

Harvard offered its first Kurdish Language course in the University’s history this fall after students from Kurdish-speaking backgrounds pushed for its creation.

"The Language Wound: The use of the mother tongue in education and experiences of Kurdish students", a study from the Political and Social Research Institute of Diyarybakır, suggests bilingual and ...

Kurdish residents in Fargo-Moorhead who fled Iraq and resettled in Fargo-Moorhead over the past 20 years are trying to reconnect their children with traditional language and culture.

Some varieties of Kurdish, such as Sorani, are written in the Sorani alphabet, an Arabic-derived script, while the Kurmanji ...

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.

To facilitate this transition, UNHCR provides Kurdish language courses to Syrian refugee teachers, helping them improve their ability to deliver quality education to both refugee and Iraqi children in ...

The issue of Kurdish language rights is highly sensitive in a nation racked by more than 15 years of separatist conflict in the ethnic Kurdish-dominated southeast.

The family of Iranian languages consists of several groups, of which the Kurdish language(s) is among the most diverse and problematic. Lack of authentic knowledge of the present state of Kurdish ...

Call him a choirmaster of endangered dialects from distant lands, or a prophetic polyglot. If Kurmanci, the Kurdish dialect of a people with a heritage but no land of their own, has a messiah, he ...