The Kurds have spent a century fighting for autonomy and confronting brutal repression by Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and Iran.

SDC maps path to decentralized future as Assad's fall creates delicate balance between Turkish threats and Islamist forces ...

Kurds, Turkmen and Armenians. “Syria is mixed and is not made up of Sunnis only. There are other identities,” Abdi said referring to the country’s Sunni Muslims who are the majority in the ...

Kurds carry banners as they protest ... Ottoman Muslims included Greeks, Armenians, Serbo-Croatians, Bulgarians, and others. Descendants of Turkic tribes were only a tiny portion of the population.