Sivan Perwer's gesture with Recep Tayyip Erdogan (right) has perturbed some Kurds An iconic singer's return from exile has opened up a divide among Turkey's Kurds, who may be at a crossroads in their ...

Another famous Kurdish singer, Nizamettin Aric, welcomes Sivan Perver's return to Diyarbakir but says he shouldn't be expected soon in Turkey. The renowned Kurdish singer Sivan Perwer returned Turkey ...

Error occured during this request! Please try again later. Last month, before thousands of fans and only a short distance from where he was born, Kurdish singer Sivan ...

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 ...

"Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is the architect of this day of peace," said Kurdish musician Sivan Perwer, who returned to Turkey upon invitation by Erdogan after living in exile for 37 ...

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 ...

Error occured during this request! Please try again later. BARCELONA, Spain – Songs and language have always gone hand-in-hand with nationalism, especially for ...

After 37 years in exile the world's most famous Kurdish singer, Sivan Perwer, has returned to Turkey. His return was at the invitation of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. James Reynolds ...

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 ...

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 ...

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