Istanbul's governorate has banned a Kurdish-language play that was set to open on Tuesday, provoking condemnation from actors and the city's mayor. Beru, a Kurdish adaptation of Dario Fo's 1981 satire ...

Bans on Kurdish cultural events or activities are not rare in Turkey. The outlawing of the Kurdish-language play "Beru" has been condemned as the latest attack on Kurdish culture. "It all happened ...

It’s been said that everything in this world has a rhythm. And while that may be a familiar notion for a performing arts figure such as principal ballet dancer-turned-choreographer Lauren Lovette, ...

İstanbul Metropolitan Municipality (İBB) opened basic Zaza language courses and also courses for those who have the Zaza language as their mother tongue and who want to develop their language. People ...

Turkish authorities have banned a Kurdish-language play that was due to open Tuesday in Istanbul's municipal theatre for the first time in its 106-year history, organisers told AFP. "Beru", a Kurdish ...

The Gezi park protests of June 2013 drew the attention of the world to a very urban conflict in Turkey's most populous city. Less covered, were the various micro-conflicts behind the scenes which led ...

The 3rd Ibero-American Writers Meeting, organized by the Istanbul Cervantes Institute to bring together leading figures of Spanish-language ...

Istanbul's French language teachers went on a one-day strike today after MICEL management introduced a new contract that ended most teachers' working permits by the end of 2013. Istanbul's French ...

A photograph from the 1920s makes plain the faultline that lays bare the conflicts of Istanbul, whether clearly evident or deeply hidden, as if it were the summary of a one hundred year history. This ...