A s part of our Monday Talks series, we have hosted Ana Gomes and Anders Vistisen to discuss the current state of the relations between the European Union and Turkey. The two influential members of the…
M onday 11 December, during a surprise visit at the Syrian airbase of Khmeimim, currently leased by Russia, Vladimir Putin announced a partial pullout of the Russian contingent in the country, stating that “over…
T he Middle East has never been a simple place. Yet nowadays, this region is especially turbulent — with waves rocking several countries, so big that their effects are being felt worldwide, including…
In recent days, Iraqi Kurds deeply frustrated with American foreign policy made an unprecedented display toward their longstanding ally: banners featuring anti-American slogans began to dot our capital city. This would be normal in…
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T he recent Kurdish referendum in Iraq may have wide-reaching repercussions that are of great importance when considering the future of the Middle East. Experts have surmised that Iran will be the…
T he Kurdish people are living difficult and important years. The Peshmerga in Iraq and the YPG (embedded in the SDF) in Syria are fighting ISIS, and victory is not far.
Erbil and Kobane…
T he Kurds have retained a strong sense of ethnic and cultural identity for over two thousand years.
Since the breakup of the Ottoman Empire in (1918) the majority of the Kurds have been…
W hile many Syrian refugees from Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan risk their lives leaving the three host countries to Europe, 339,639 out of 4.9 million Syrian refugees are sheltered in Iraqi Kurdistan and they…
I have the bitter sense that we passed that despicable threshold, perhaps to a point of no return. The result of the referendum was the sealing of an autocratic rule; a stamp for…
by Yavuz Baydar
Turkish President Erdoğan's playbook never runs out of surprises.
Three most recent decrees meant that 649 academics were arbitrarily fired, and 83 associations were shut down, including the well-established Kurdish Insitute,…