Hemin Sadiq has known his passion since he was a youngster. With a dream that "people should listen to me one day," at 14, he left home behind his parents' backs to start a career as a radio announcer ...

Ayla Albayrak has worked at The Wall Street Journal bureau in Istanbul since 2010, writing stories and producing videos of subjects ranging from Turkish politics to the Kurdish question and Syrian ...

Nashville is home to the largest Kurdish community in the U.S. — but the history of how that came to be is filled with tragedy and genocide. The new WPLN podcast The Country in Our Hearts outlines the ...

Journalists reporting on the Kurdish issue have faced arrest, assault and censorship of social media accounts. RSF calls on the authorities to end their persecution of these journalists. This ...

A court has acquitted seven journalists and two politicians who were on trial for participating in a demonstration in İstanbul’s Şişhane district last year, held in response to the killing of two ...

The Kurdish language has faced many challenges in recent history, including being banned at different times in Turkey, Iraq and Syria, with heavy restrictions often placed on Kurdish-language media ...