Rudaw visited the Kumzar people, a remote community in northern Oman, who speak a distinct language with remarkable ...

Öznur’s song “Hevalê Reş” for George Floyd, a Black man killed by a police officer who knelt on his neck in the US, has been translated into Turkish, English and German. A song in Kurdish has been ...

Summer is here and it's the season of wedding parties throughout Türkiye. But for some Kurdish men, women, and children, joyful dancing and singing of Kurdish political folk songs at wedding ...

Their video also showed that the ones listening to the song in the square as well as the passers-by were trying to sing along or beating time. The video quickly spread on social media. One of the most ...

The Kurdish insurgent group PKK in Turkey says it will lay down its arms and disband after a decades-long fight that killed tens of thousands. Latest U.S.

Fans of the Kurdish-Turkish singer Ahmet Kaya are claiming that the tune is not a million miles away from his 1985 song “Acilara Tutunmak (Clinging to Pain)”.

F OR much of the past century, as the Kurds dreamed of autonomy in Turkey and the Middle East, armed groups drove the agenda. Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed leader of the largest such group, the ...

Both songs may have generic melodies, which is part of the reason Kaya's fans connected the two. Dilmener agreed "Acilara Tutunmak" is "an easy tune to figure out." Kaya was a Kurdish artist who ...

Luv is a quintessential tale of overcoming the odds. Born Helan Abdulla, she began her life as a minority Kurd in Iran, but fled with her mother almost immediately after she was born to escape the ...

A Kurdish visual artist, poet and musician, Farhad Bandesh, who has been detained in Manus Island’s offshore processing centre for nearly six years, has just released the new video clip for his ...

For centuries, dengbej songs served as news bulletin, history lesson and evening's entertainment all in one. Master singers continue to perform. But efforts to preserve Kurdish culture have suffered.