Kurds in Iraq and Syria this week have marked the Newroz festival, a traditional celebration of spring and renewal, at a time when many are hoping that a new political beginning is on the horizon.

Three weeks after jailed PKK founder Abdullah Ocalan urged his militants to disband, Turkey's Kurds were celebrating their Newroz New Year Friday with peace prospects still remote. The efforts to ...

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The culmination of Newroz is in Diyarbakır every year. Newroz, the common festival of peoples worldwide, holds particular significance for Kurds. Every year, millions of citizens fill the squares to ...

Önder read out a statement from the PKK leader at the Kurdish new year festival of Newroz in 2013, in which he called for PKK fighters to stand down. A ceasefire broke down in 2015.

AKRE. Iraq (AP) — Kurds in Iraq and Syria this week marked the Newroz festival, a traditional celebration of spring and renewal, at a time when many are hoping… ...

Kurds in Iraq and Syria during the week of March 21 marked the Newroz festival, a traditional celebration of spring and renewal, at a time when many are hoping that ...