Anadolu Agency meets the people behind the burgeoning interest in the Kurdish language in Turkey as the country's PM expresses his desire to learn the tongue 30.01.2015 - Update : 30.01.2015 By ...

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

While I feel empowered by the opportunity to learn the Kurdish language at Harvard, I am infuriated that others do not get the same chance. In different parts of Kurdistan, the act of preserving ...

Kurdish language activists counter that the desire to learn Kurdish is there, but it must be taught in public schools - a practice that's still banned.

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 ...

Newzad Brifki, executive director of Kurdish Youth of America, left, helps Avann Salman, 5, of Moorhead write in Kurdish during a language class on Friday, Dec. 16, 2011, in Moorhead.

Yasmin Randalla, a 67-year-old psychologist in Vienna, has decided to learn Kurdish because she has been running humanitarian projects in Iran’s western Kurdish regions (Rojhelat) for several years.

"When you open the Turkish school books, you learn about one nation, one language, and one history," said Rana, a Kurdish educator in Diyarbakir who in ...