Reuters - Turkey's best-known novelist Orhan Pamuk, who faced trial this year for insulting his country, won the 2006 Nobel prize for Literature on Thursday in a decision some critics called politically charged.
Kurdishmedia-A Kurdish director Bahman Ghobadi has won the 'Golden Shell' to the best film for 'Half Moon' (Nive Heyve) at the San Sebastian International film festival, in San Sebastian, northern Spain, Saturday Sept. 30, 2006.
Interview with controversial movie director Laund Omar
Lauand Omar (25) was born in Beirut, Lebanon, and grew up in North Africa and Germany. He is the third director to ever shoot a film in South-Kurdistan. His award winning drama movie, "Bekhal's Tears" takes a look at women's rights and honor crimes in South-Kurdistan.
Historical buildings in Kars used as military quarters or mosque
KARS (DIHA) - Many historical buildings in Kars are devastated to be used as military purposes and many churches are reverted to mosque and their historical features are lost.
Kardes Türküler's new release shares multicultural sounds of peoples in Anatolia
ISTANBUL (DIHA) - Kardes Türküler, a musical group that has succeeded in creating their special manner of playing the instruments and performing songs of different cultures in a way peculiar only to the band, in their last albume "Bahar [Spring]"...
Support for Kurdish Literature from Bosphorus University
İSTANBUL (DİHA) - While hundreds of students are investigated in many students because of singing in Kurdish, making folk dances accompanied by Kurdish music, telling their demands for education in mother tongue, Bosphorus University set a precedent and supported Kurdish literature
MARDIN (DIHA) -8 House wives gathering together under the roof of the Kızıltepe Woman Solidarity Center (KADMER) to draw picture for the first time along their life spans have displayed their exhibition entitled "And the God Created the Woman" and their next aims are to stage personal exhibitions.
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Reuters - Turkey's best-known novelist Orhan Pamuk, who faced trial this year for insulting his country, won the 2006 Nobel prize for Literature on Thursday in a decision some critics called politically charged.
Kurdishmedia-A Kurdish director Bahman Ghobadi has won the 'Golden Shell' to the best film for 'Half Moon' (Nive Heyve) at the San Sebastian International film festival, in San Sebastian, northern Spain, Saturday Sept. 30, 2006.
Lauand Omar (25) was born in Beirut, Lebanon, and grew up in North Africa and Germany. He is the third director to ever shoot a film in South-Kurdistan. His award winning drama movie, "Bekhal's Tears" takes a look at women's rights and honor crimes in South-Kurdistan.
DIYARBAKIR (DIHA) - A group of 'Amed Democratic High School Initiative' members marched carrying a pancarde of 'Destroying history means ignoring us'
KARS (DIHA) - Many historical buildings in Kars are devastated to be used as military purposes and many churches are reverted to mosque and their historical features are lost.