An iconic singer's return from exile has opened up a divide among Turkey's Kurds, who may be at a crossroads in their history. There is a legend that a Kurdish peshmerga fighter, facing surgery with ...

Turkey's Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan (R) chats with Kurdish poet and singer Sivan Perwer (L), who had fled Turkey in the 1970s, during a ceremony in Diyarbakir November 16, 2013. REUTERS/Stringer By ...

Min bêriya te kiriye means ‘I miss you’. That song - in a prisoner’s persona - is title-piece of a fine concert album by Siwan Perwer. Likely the most widely-esteemed Kurd now living, he’s certainly ...

TORONTO, Aug. 18 (UPI) -- Canadian police in Toronto have apologized to an internationally known Kurdish singer and poet for mistaking him and his entourage for armed terrorists. Sivan Perwer and a ...

For a moment, Kurdish singer Sivan Perwer wondered if his driver had accidentally driven onto a movie set when half a dozen provincial police cruisers surrounded his black Hummer. Perwer, a superstar ...

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - During the 1990s it was dangerous in Turkey to sing or own recordings of the melancholic songs of Kurdish poet and singer Sivan Perwer. His army of fans in southeastern Kurdistan ...