The man says his goal is to encourage more people to read and increase the number of readers in the community. Click here for the full story in Kurdish. Related ...

A 30-year-old Kurdish man with Turkish nationality has been granted refugee status, according to government sources, which a refugee advocate group praised as the first such case in Japan. Koji ...

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That man was Osman Dursun, a 34-year-old Kurd. "These are wheat seeds ... However, as a member of the Kurdish minority, he faced persecution under Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan's administration.