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11:07 17/8/2014
 
Kurdish theater players from Ankara join YPG ranks
Kurdish theater actors Eren Aziz and Bünyamin Adıyaman, founders of TiyatRoj Theater Group, have left Turkey to join the ranks of West Kurdistan's People's Protection Units (YPG).
15:21 14/8/2014
 
Sherfeddin Tomb under protection of guerillas
Kurdish guerrilla forces are also protecting the sacred spaces of Yezidis in Sinjar (Şengal) where they reached soon after the capture of the town by ISIS gangs on 3 August.
17:04 04/8/2014
 
Cannes Palme d'Or winner ‘Winter Sleep’ going to Oscar
Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s “Winter Sleep” (Kış Uykusu) that won the Palme d’Or (Golden Palm) for the best film at the 67th Cannes Film Festival will represent Turkey in the foreign film category at the 87th Academy Awards next year.
13:04 04/8/2014
 
Munzur Festival ends with massive final concert
he 14th Munzur Culture Art and Nature Festival, which continued for 4 days in Dersim, ended yesterday with a concert.
11:48 02/8/2014
 
Polish movie 'Karbala' to be filmed in Kurdistan
A Polish movie about the Iraq war has started production and will be filmed in the Federal Kurdistan Region.
14:32 19/7/2014
 
Voice of Rojava: Voice of revolution and peoples
We are listening to the sound of the revolution on the frequency of 89.4. "The Voice of Rojava" radio meets with its listeners in 3 parts of Kurdistan.
08:48 06/7/2014
 
A mythological capital of Kurds: Urkesh
When the god of sun finds the giant master, he informs Teshub, the god of storm, king of all gods.
15:10 03/7/2014
 
Nazım Hikmet’s poem one of the 50 greatest
London’s Southbank Art Center has selected the greatest international poems of love from the last 50 years. Poems have been selected from 30 countries around the world, from Saint Lucia to Iraqi Kurdistan, and Turkey’s Nazım Hikmet Ran’s poem “Severmişim Meğer” (Things I didn’t know I loved) is among those that have been selected.
12:20 02/7/2014
 
Nestorian aqueduct in Çukurca
One of the most important remaining artefacts from the Nestorians, known as the first Christians in Mesopotamia, is to be found in the district of Çukurca (Çele) in Hakkari province. The aqueduct is in the Sidan valley 45 minutes from the district centre of Çukurca, reached by a footpath.
12:00 25/6/2014
 
Last antiquarian in Van
84-year-old Mehmet Nuri Ataklı, who has an antique shop in Van, where he sells the artefacts and old coins he has collected all his life, says sadly that the antique business is not what it was.
11:26 24/6/2014
 
Women meet at Sakine Cansız Festival in Basel
Kurdish women living in Switzerland met at the first Sakine Cansız Festival and gave the message of constructing a better world with a new system against capitalism.
11:15 10/6/2014
 
First volume of 'Asoya Jinê' published
Yekîtiya Star published the first volume of its journal called "Asoya Jinê".
11:41 09/6/2014
 
Iranian short film nabs award at Hewler film festival
Iranian filmmaker Babak Nabizadeh’s short production Empty Handed But Standing Strong (Dast E Khali Del E Por) has won top prize at the First Hewler International Film Festival.
13:11 08/6/2014
 
Herekol Festival cancelled on account of Lice massacre
The two-day ‘Herekol Çemê Karê peace festival’, organised by the Siirt Municipality which started on Herekol mountain in Pervari district on 7 June, was transformed into a protest when news of the people shot dead in Lice reached the festival.
11:51 06/6/2014
 
Irrevocable bread of meals: Nanê sêlê
The Kurdish people who migrated to Central Anatolia some 300 years ago continue to maintain their tradition of nanê sêlê (tandoor bread) as part of their authentic Kurdish cuisine that they brought from Kurdistan.
11:29 27/5/2014
 
First caricature exhibition in Cizîre Canton
With help of Art and Culture Ministry of Cizîre Canton and Union of Free Press (YRA), the first caricature exhibition is opened in Girkê Legê city of Rojava.
11:04 25/5/2014
 
Kurdish artist Beytocan in Diyarbakır after 23 years
Kurdish artist Beytocan, Beytullah Güneri by his real name, returned to his homeland after 23 years away from home.
10:42 25/5/2014
 
Ceylan dedicates Palme d'or to massacred youngs and Soma
The film "Winter Sleep" won the top Palme d'Or prize for director Nuri Bilge Ceylan at the 67th Cannes International Film Festival on May 24, with the famous director dedicating his award to all those killed in the Gezi Park protests and others in the past year in Turkey and mineworkers killed in Soma disaster.
16:40 22/5/2014
 
HDP Co-chair Kürkçü to sign his books
The Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) Co-chair Ertuğrul Kürkçü will meet with his readers in Diyarbakır Book Fair today.
10:07 16/5/2014
 
KURDÎ-DER: We must not wait for the State for Kurdish education
The Siirt Provincial Branch of the KURDÎ-DER has released a statement as part of their celebrations Kurdish Language Day on May 15. The statement argued that Kurdish politicians and mayors must not wait for the state to act on the question of Kurdish language education and urged them to begin their own work around the subject.

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