Analysis
Syrian-Turkish Rapprochement: The Future of Syria’s Kurds in 2023
By Theo Mitchell
After a decade of enmity, the end of 2022 saw a sudden move towards rapprochement between Syria and Turkey. For Turkish President Erdogan, normalisation with Syria serves three important goals for his leadership,…
Silent Genocide: Kirkuk and Disputed Kurdish Territories Face Ethnic Cleansing
By Dr. Hawzhin Azeez
The year 2022 saw the rise of the plight and situation of the Kurds to international attention. From South Kurdistan (Northern Iraq, Basur) being repeatedly bombed and subject to drone strikes both from Turkey and…
Roboski: Murdered for the Crime of Being Impoverished Kurds
On December 28, 2011, the Dutch journalist Frederike Geerdink was in Istanbul when the Turkish army massacred members of a Kurdish convoy transporting goods between Turkey and Iraq. Witness reports revealed during the investigation that it…
Dancing with the Devil: Turkish Ultra-Nationalism and the End of Rojava’s Revolution?
Out of the carnage of the Syrian civil war, there has emerged an experiment in radical democracy, against the state, that has helped to light the path and to show us the way forward, towards a democratic modernity. Like all revolutions,…
