The Kurdish poet and writer Celal Melekşa has died at the age of 69.Read More
Savan Abdulrahman – Iraqi Kurdistan On 26 October, people in the city of Sulaymaniyah in Iraqi Kurdistan woke up to see women’s dresses hanging on a long line stretching almost 5km long. Some could see it from their house windows, some through the windows of their cars as they drove along and many others came […]Read More
Chora Museum is considered to be one of the most impressive surviving Byzantine monuments in İstanbul, Turkey, and an icon of late Byzantine art and architecture.Read More
The Lazuri (Laz) language – which is spoken primarily along the southeastern coast of the Black Sea in Turkey – has been identified by UNESCO as a “language in danger”.Read More
Hasankeyf (Heskif), one of the most significant cultural heritage sites in the world where life had been uninterruptedly going on for the past 12,000 years, was submerged and destroyed by the Ilisu Dam on the River Tigris in southeastern Turkey. Director Elif Yiğit has captured this destruction in her documentary feature ‘Heskif’.Read More
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Kurdish language play banned at İstanbul’s Municipality City Theatre
The Kurdish-language play “Bêrû’’ was included in the October programme of the İstanbul Municipality City Theatre in Turkey. Due to be staged by Teatra Jiyana Nû (New Life Theatre), it was banned on the grounds that it could “disturb the general public order”.Read More
Walaa Abu Steit – Cairo Egyptian Prime Minister Mustafa Madbouli (left) inspecting one of the newly discovered wooden sarcophagi in Saqqara.Read More
The first of the concert series “The sound of the past: Amida Concerts”, which was organised by Diyarbakır’s Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DTSO), has begun in Hasuni Caves, located at the foot of Albat Mountain, in the Silvan district of Diyarbakır (Amed).Read More
An ambitious and innovative concert programme – “Voice of the Past; Amida Concerts” – is being organized in Turkey by Diyarbakır’s (Amed’s) Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DTSO).Read More
The Kurdish-language play “Bêrû: Klakson, Borîzan û Birt” was included in the October programme of the İstanbul Municipality City Theatre. Due to be staged by Teatra Jiyana Nû (New Life Theatre), it was banned on the grounds that it could “disturb the general public order”.Read More
