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Cairo Cairo ( ; ar, القاهرة, al-Qāhirah, ) is the capital of Egypt and its largest city, home to 10 million people. It is also part of the largest urban agglomeration in Africa, the Arab world and the Middle East: The Greater Cairo metro ...

in 1898. Since then tens of different Kurdish newspapers, magazines and journals have been published in Ottoman Empire, Iraq, Armenia, Syria, Lebanon and Iran and in recent years in Turkey, Germany, Sweden and France. The following is a list of well-known Kurdish newspapers and magazines in chronological order. #''

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, First issue in 1898, 31 issues in total. #''Roja Kurd'', Monthly Journal,

Istanbul Istanbul ( , ; tr, İstanbul ), formerly known as Constantinople ( grc-gre, Κωνσταντινούπολις; la, Constantinopolis), is the List of largest cities and towns in Turkey, largest city in Turkey, serving as the country's economic, ...

, 1912, 3 issues. #''Pêşkewtin'', Newspaper, Sulaimania, 1920–1922, 118 issues. #''Rojî Kurdistan'', Newspaper, Sulaimania, 1922–1923, 15 issues. #''Bangê Kurdistan'', Weekly magazine, Sulaimania, 1922, 14 issues. #''Bangê Heq'', Weekly magazine, Sulaimania, 1923, 3 issues. #''Umîdî Istiqlal'', Weekly magazine, Sulaimnia, 1923, 25 issues. #''Diyarî Kurdistan'', Monthly Journal, Sulaimania, 1925–1926, 16 issues. #''Jiyanewe'', Weekly magazine, Sulaimania, 1924–1926, 56 issues. #''Jiyan'', Weekly magazine, Sulaimania, 1926–1938, 556 issues. #''Zarî Kurmancî'', Bimonthly Journal,

Rawanduz Rawandiz ( ar, رواندز; ku, ڕەواندز, Rewandiz) is a city in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, located in the Erbil Governorate, close to the Iran–Iraq border, borders with Iran and Iraq–Turkey border, Turkey, it is located 10 km ...

, 1926–1932, 30 issues. #''Riya Taze'', Biweekly magazine,

Yerevan Yerevan ( , , hy, Երևան , sometimes spelled Erevan) is the capital and largest city of Armenia and one of the world's List of oldest continuously inhabited cities, oldest continuously inhabited cities. Situated along the Hrazdan River, Y ...

, 1930–1938, 612 issues (in Latin characters). #'' Hawar'', Monthly Journal,

Damascus )), is an adjective which means "spacious". , motto = , image_flag = Flag of Damascus.svg , image_seal = Emblem of Damascus.svg , seal_type = Seal , map_caption = , ...

, 1932–1935 and 1941–1943, 57 issues. #''Ziban'', Weekly magazine, Sulaimania, 1937–1939, 70 issues. #''Jîn'', Weekly magazine, Sulaimania, 1939–1963, more than 1000 issues. #''Gelawêj'', Monthly Journal,

Baghdad Baghdad (; ar, بَغْدَاد , ) is the capital of Iraq and the second-largest city in the Arab world after Cairo. It is located on the Tigris near the ruins of the ancient city of Babylon and the Sassanid Persian capital of Ctesiphon ...

, 1939-1949. #''Ronahî'', Bimonthly Journal, Damascus, 1941–1945, 28 issues. #''Roja Nû'', Weekly magazine,

Beirut Beirut, french: Beyrouth is the capital and largest city of Lebanon. , Greater Beirut has a population of 2.5 million, which makes it the third-largest city in the Levant region. The city is situated on a peninsula at the midpoint o ...

, 1943–1946, 73 issues. #''Kurdistan'', Newspaper, Mahabad, 1945–1946, 113 issues. #''Kurdistan'', Monthly Literary Review, Mahabad, 1945–1946, 16 issues. #''Stêr'', Weekly magazine, Beirut, 1946, 3 issues. #''Nizar'', Monthly Journal, Baghdad, 1948–1949, 22 issues. #''Hetaw'', Biweekly magazine,

Erbil Erbil, also called Hawler (, ar, أربيل, Arbīl; syr, ܐܲܪܒܹܝܠ, Arbel), is the capital and most populated city in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. It lies in the Erbil Governorate. It has an estimated population of around 1,600,000. Hu ...

, 1954–1960, 188 issues. #''Riya Taze'', Biweekly magazine,

, 1955-, more than 2,500 issues (in Cyrillic and Latin characters). #''Hîwa'', Bimonthly Journal, Baghdad, 1957–1963, 36 issues. #''Ray Gel'', Monthly Journal,

Kirkuk Kirkuk ( ar, كركوك, ku, کەرکووک, translit=Kerkûk, , tr, Kerkük) is a city in Iraq, serving as the capital of the Kirkuk Governorate, located north of Baghdad. The city is home to a diverse population of Turkmens, Arabs, Kurds, ...

, 1959–1962, 34 issues. #''Azadî'', Biweekly magazine, Kirkuk, 1959–1961, 56 issues. #''Bilêse'', Monthly Journal, Sulaimania, 1959–1960, 10 issues. #''Xebat'', Newspaper, Baghdad, 1959–1961, 462 issues. #''Kurdistan'', Weekly magazine,

Tehran Tehran (; fa, تهران ) is the largest city in Tehran Province and the capital of Iran. With a population of around 9 million in the city and around 16 million in the larger metropolitan area of Greater Tehran, Tehran is the most popul ...

, 1959–1963, 205 issues (only circulated outside Iran). #''Rojî Nwê'', Biweekly magazine, Sulaimania, 1960, 18 issues. #''Birwa'', Weekly magazine, Sulaimania, 1960–1963, 95 issues. #''Hewlêr'', Weekly magazine, Erbil, 1962–1963, 76 issues. #'' Dicle û Firat'', Monthly Journal, Istanbul, 1962–1963, 8 issues. #''Dengê Taze'', Monthly Journal, Istanbul, 1966, 4 issues. #''Birayetî'', Monthly Journal, Baghdad, 1970–1971, 18 issues. #''Birayetî'', Monthly Journal, Sulaimania, 1971–1972, 18 issues. #''

Azadiya Welat ''Azadiya Welat'' (Kurdish for: "Freedom of the Country") was a newspaper in the Kurdish language published in Turkey. It was shut down on 28 August 2016 when police raided the newspaper's headquarters in Diyarbakir, taking all 27 staff into custo ...

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Hawlati ''Hawlati'' (Kurdish for "citizen") is an independent Kurdish newspaper, published in Sulaymaniyah, Iraqi Kurdistan and London. Tariq Fatih is the owner of the paper. ''Hawlati'' is a biweekly newspaper issued by Ranj Publishing House, publishe ...

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Awena Awena is a weekly independent Kurdish newspaper, published every Tuesday in Sulaymaniyah, Iraqi Kurdistan . Awena means “The Mirror” in Kurdish. The newspaper was founded by Asos Ahmed Hardi, former editor-in-chief of Hawlati ''Hawla ...

'', Weekly magazine, Sulaimania, 2006- #''

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'', monthly newspaper, Washington, D.C 2011–Present

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The Kurdish Review
''The only Kurdish-American newspaper in print, based in Washington, D.C.'' * id=7CP7fYghBFQC, plainurl=y T. Bois, ''The Kurdish Press'' In ''Kurds and Kurdistan'', Encyclopaedia of Islam.
Kurdish Cultural Magazines
Kurdish Library, Sweden. Kurdish-language mass media

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