ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Exiled Kurdish band Koma Amed held their first major concert in 30 years in Diyarbakir (Amed), the Kurdish-majority city in southeast Turkey on Saturday, drawing tens of ...

SXSW‘s second day was all about diversity. There were revelatory sounds from Africa, Turkey, and the U.K., all of them shot through with a sense of pride for the respective artists’ homelands. In some ...

ARBIL Iraq (Reuters) - Kurdish pop singer Helly Luv says she will not be put off by death threats from Iraqi Islamist militants since release of her first music video but, drawing on its title, ...

MURFREESBORO, Tenn. — Tennessee is home to various traditions of different cultures, but some are at the risk of being lost. A statewide initiative by the Tennessee Arts Commission aims to preserve ...

Turkey's main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu reacted to the Derince District Municipality's canceling of Aynur Doğan's concert which was going to be held on May ...

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 parties ...

In the heart of Iran’s mountainous west, Kurdish weddings are among the most colorful and lively cultural celebrations in the country.

Koma Amed, one of the most popular Kurdish music groups of the 1990s, has returned to the country after many years in exile.

Error occured during this request! Please try again later. SULAIMANI, Kurdistan Region - Kurdish musician Gashtyar Kawa is carving out a distinctive sound by blending ...

Since the beginning of the 1990s, a substantial portion of Kurdish and other Kurdish-speaking communities around the towns of Bozova and Hilvan, to the north of the city of Urfa, have been going back ...