Language is never just a means of communication. It is identity, memory, access, and belonging. Across the Middle East, few ...

Teacher Zak Amin checks the work of student Rayan Salih during a Kurdish language and culture class at Moorhead High School.

.Newly-elected President Abdullah Gül had chosen to visit five provinces in the East and South-East of Anatolia for his first domestic tour. The last stop was Diyarbakir, a Kurdish-majority city.

A Kurdish member of parliament was allowed to begin her speech in Kurdish, a move permitted by the nationalist deputy speaker of the parliament during a session on the budget of the presidency and its ...