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Kurds in Turkey

A Syrian woman holding her infant waits near an informal border crossing to go back to Kobane, Syria, despite ongoing clashes between ISIS and Kurdish fighters. Many Syrian Kurds are finding Turkey expensive and inhospitable.

Kurds threaten dark days for Turkey if Kobane falls

Conflict

As Turkey continues to resist taking action against ISIS in the Syrian Kurdish city of Kobane, Turkey’s Kurds are growing angrier. Now that anger may help end the ceasefire between Kurds and Turks that had held for over a year.

Kurdish protesters set fire to a barricade blocking the street as they clash with riot police in Diyarbakir, Turkey, on October 7, 2014.

‘The Kurds have no friends but the mountains’

Conflict
Turkish tanks taking up position on the Turkish-Syrian border on September 29, 2014, after stray fire landed on Turkish territory. Turkey is concentrating forces along the border ahead of a parliamentary debate on authorizing military intervention in Syri

Turkey prepares to make a military move into Syria, but NATO needs convincing

Conflict

Turkish prime minister courts Kurds in bid to establish strong presidency

Global Politics

Some still skeptical despite Turkish government’s steps to integrate Kurdish language

Global Politics

In Turkey, Kurdish classes taught by a girl who is young enough to be in grade school

The Kurdish language was banned in Turkey for years. It’s still widely discouraged, but restrictions have been somewhat relaxed. But still, few Turkish Kurds can speak the language. But one 7-year-old girl is trying to change that.

13-Year-Old Teaches Kurdish in Turkey

Conflict & Justice

Turkey had a ban on Kurdish in public places. So Kurdish children didn’t learn their language in school and their parents often didn’t speak it at home, but one young teacher is changing that.

The World

The World – Episode 20071218 – Turkey goes after Kurdish rebels

Hundreds of Turkish troops reportedly crossed over into northern Iraq today to battle against Kurdish rebels. The incursion came as Secretary of State Condoleezza made a visit to Iraq. The conflict puts the United States in a diplomatic tight spot. Both Turkey and the Iraqi Kurds are U.S. allies. Anchor Lisa Mullins finds out more from Scott Peterson with the Christian Science Monitor.