Remembering one of the darkest chapters of Saddam Hussein’s Anfal genocide, PM Masrour Barzani urges Baghdad to deliver ...

ERBIL (Kurdistan24) – The Kurdistan Region on Monday marked the 37th anniversary of the Anfal campaign in Badinan, one of the ...

It has been a constant theme in the history of the Kurds, an ethnic group indigenous to parts of Iran, Iraq, Syria and Turkey. The quest for their own country where they could freely speak their ...

Kurdistan is defined more by culture and tradition than by distinct borders. It is a place that must dance with five partners — Iraq, Iran, Turkey, Syria and Armenia, the countries with whom it ...

Sherko Kirmanj, Kurdish History Textbooks: Building a Nation-State within a Nation-State, Middle East Journal, Vol. 68, No. 3 (Summer 2014), pp. 367-384 ...

The question of an independent Kurdistan has a long history that dates back to the Ottoman Empire. In the Treaty of Sevres in 1920, the Western allies promised an autonomous Kurdistan.

Published bi-monthly in Turkish, "Kürt Tarihi" (" Kurdish History ") features an assortment of informative articles and other writings, ranging from a piece on a Kurdish Theater that appeared in the ...

Today, Kurds in Northern Iraq are employing a narrative of the Kurdish nation that bears strong ethnic roots and includes the memory of the victimization of the Kurdish nation. This essay examines the ...

But Kurdistan, in the Kurds’ minds, is an arc of land that includes not only northern Iraq, but also parts of Syria, Turkey and Iran, all of which have their own restive Kurdish minorities.