If successful, it would boost Turkey’s aspirations to reshape the Middle East and burnish ... stand behind it.” Kurds make up almost a fifth of Turkey’s 90 million population.

(credit: CHAIM GOLDBEG/FLASH90) Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu unveiled a revised Middle East map at the September 2024 UN General Assembly, underscoring the Kurds’ critical role in the region.

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Across the Middle East, Kurds are celebrating Nowruz, a traditional holiday marking the arrival of spring and the new year, which has reached new heights of public celebration this year.

The militia groups committed numerous human rights violations, especially against the Kurdish population, documented by local and international organizations. Hundreds of thousands of Kurds fled ...

The cities of Kawaguchi and Warabi in southern Saitama Prefecture are home to many Kurds, an ethnic minority in the Middle East with a large ... place Japan's Kurdish population at around 2,000 ...

The salience of Kurdish political, social, economic and cultural developments for the Middle East and for wider geopolitics is being increasingly reflected in the upsurge of research in this area.