A GROUNDBREAKING discovery has prompted excitement amongst the archeological community as it may prove the existence of Noah’s Ark. Boffins at the Mount Ararat and Noah’s Ark Research team have ...

A boat-shaped formation near Ararat, first discovered by a Kurdish farmer in 1948 ... appearing on Armenia’s coat of arms, despite being in Turkey. The lack of evidence for Noah’s Ark keeps ...

Massacres, often ignored or forgotten by the outside world but not by their victims, are one of the great driving forces of ...

Instead, hundreds have taken to the streets in demonstrations calling for the extermination of Alawites,” says Hisham Arafat, a Syrian Kurdish journalist ... Those with arms will not want ...

Listen to political scientist Pinar Dinc explain what’s led to the PKK’s ceasefire with Turkey on The Conversation Weekly ...

Kurds in Iraq and Syria this week have marked the Newroz festival, a traditional celebration of spring and renewal, at a time when many are hoping that a new political beginning is on the horizon ...

AKRE. Iraq — Kurds in Iraq and Syria this week marked the Newroz festival, a traditional celebration of spring and renewal, at a time when many are hoping that a new political beginning is on ...

For almost five decades, Turkey has been at war with the PKK, founded by Ocalan in 1978. Much of the fighting has focused on the group’s desire to establish an independent Kurdish state in the ...

However, Bahceli, backed by positive signals from Erdogan and other political parties, had created the right environment for the PKK to lay down its arms, Ocalan added. Kurdish leaders largely ...

A Kurdish militant group who have waged a 40-year insurgency in Turkey declared a ceasefire today, two days after their jailed leader called for the group to disarm from his prison island.