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Criminalizing Our People: Social Impacts of the PKK Ban
The terror-listing of the PKK by Western states criminalizes ordinary Kurds.
Fighting Both Sides of the Same War: Is Turkey Using Attacks on the Islamic State as Cover for Assault on Kurds?
Over the past week, Turkey has detained more than 1,000 people in a series of raids, many targeting members of Kurdish groups.
Turkey’s Support for IS Against the Kurds Exposes Flawed US Strategy
After their defeat in Kobani, IS has turned their guns on another Kurdish town. Is Turkey - a key NATO ally - aiding the jihadists?
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The No State Solution: Institutionalizing Libertarian Socialism in Kurdistan
In what many outside of the territory are referring to as the Rojava Revolution, a major shift in political philosophy and political programmatics has taken place in Kurdistan.
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How the US Intervention Against the Islamic State Has Alienated Syria’s Sunni Arab Opposition
Syria's Sunni Arab opposition says the US decision to attack ISIS has hurt their chances of winning the civil war.
Turkey Joins the War Campaign Against the Islamic State
Scholar Edmund Ghareeb explains how the authorization for military force against Islamic State by the Turkish parliament will affect peace negotiations with the Kurds.
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The Kurds: Opportunity and Peril
For almost a century, the Kurdsu2014one of the worldu2019s largest ethnic groups without its own stateu2014have been deceived and double-crossed, their language and culture suppressed, their villages burned and …
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Ten Years After Iraq Invasion, Sunnis Who Backed Saddam Chafe Under Shiite Rule
And Kurds are angry at the prime minister's refusal to resolve the issues of revenue-sharing and oil sales.
Kurdish Prisoners End Mass Hunger Strike
The Kurdish movement is the greatest challenge to the neoliberal, conservative Turkish government, says international development scholar Baris Karaagac.