Writings by Topic: Kurds
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Articles by MEF Staff and Fellows
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| Title |
Publication |
Date |
| Erdoğan vs. the Kurds: Where Will It End? |
The Gatestone Institute | March 11, 2021 |
| Turkey's Gara Affair: How Not to Rescue Hostages |
BESA Center Perspectives | March 10, 2021 |
| NYT Accused of Whitewashing Turkey's Afrin Occupation |
The Jerusalem Post | February 17, 2021 |
| Iran Threatens US Kurdish Allies in Iraq |
The Hill | October 23, 2020 |
| I'm Banned from the US for 'Association with a Terrorist Organization' |
The Times of Israel | September 20, 2020 |
| The Kurdistan Region in Iraq Tries to Balance Turkey, Iran and the United States |
The National Interest | September 8, 2020 |
| Syrian Kurds Try Hard for Unity amid Threats and Pressure |
The Jerusalem Post | June 18, 2020 |
| Turkey's Occupation of Syria Slammed for Ethnic Cleansing |
The Jerusalem Post | June 13, 2020 |
| Are the Kurds the Next Kingmakers in Turkey? |
BESA Center Perspectives | May 11, 2020 |
| Turkey Reveals New Plan to Buy Drones, Helicopters and Air Defense Systems |
Defense News | February 18, 2020 |
| Too Little, too Late in Syria, Where Turkey Undermined the Rebellion |
The Hill | February 13, 2020 |
| Explaining Washington's New Pro-Ankara Policy |
The Jerusalem Post | February 12, 2020 |
| Putin Has Painted Russia Into a Syrian Corner |
Bloomberg Opinion | February 11, 2020 |
| Do Syria-Turkey Clashes Presage a Wider Confrontation in the Middle East? |
The Jerusalem Post | February 7, 2020 |
| The Precarious Lull in Northeast Syria |
The Australian | January 4, 2020 |
| The Fighting Continues in Northern Syria |
The Wall Street Journal | November 25, 2019 |
| Kristallnacht, ISIS and Today's Crisis in Syria |
The Jerusalem Post | November 10, 2019 |
| Despite Setback, Kurds Appear Ready for Spotlight |
The Jerusalem Post | October 26, 2019 |
| Trump's Balfour Moment |
The Hill | October 25, 2019 |
| Turkey-Backed Jihadists in Syria Kidnap, Murder, and Desecrate |
The Jerusalem Post | October 24, 2019 |
| Turkey's New 'Bashibazouks': The Free Syrian Army |
The Gatestone Institute | October 22, 2019 |
| Obama-Era Politics Casts Shadow over U.S. Syria Discussions |
The Jerusalem Post | October 21, 2019 |
| Rojava Sundown: A Retrospective |
The Jerusalem Post | October 18, 2019 |
| Trump Betrays Kurds, Canada's Liberals and NDP Stay Silent |
The Toronto Sun | October 16, 2019 |
| After Syria Debacle, Congress Must Act for Kurdish Region of Iraq |
The Jerusalem Post | October 14, 2019 |
| Turkish Backed Jihadists Murder Prisoners and Female Politician in Syria |
The Jerusalem Post | October 13, 2019 |
| State Department Distrust of Syrian Kurds Paved the Way for Betrayal |
The Jerusalem Post | October 11, 2019 |
| Donald Trump's Shameful Syrian Betrayal |
The Spectator | October 10, 2019 |
| After Fighting ISIS for Five Years, SDF Bombed with US Permission |
The Jerusalem Post | October 9, 2019 |
| Trump Gives Turkey Green Light to Invade Syria |
The Jerusalem Post | October 7, 2019 |
| UN Excludes One Third of Syria, Mostly Kurds, from Constitution Committee |
The Jerusalem Post | September 30, 2019 |
| How ISIS Operates in Iraq Today |
The Jerusalem Post | September 27, 2019 |
| The US Cannot Neglect Iraqi Kurdistan |
The Hill | September 27, 2019 |
| In Iraqi Kurdistan, New Leadership Faces Old Challenges |
The National Interest | September 23, 2019 |
| Is the U.S. Handing Northeast Syria to Turkey? |
The Jerusalem Post | September 21, 2019 |
| Turkey Threatens to Flood Europe with Refugees (Again) |
The Jerusalem Post | September 5, 2019 |
| Turkey Wants Arab and Kurdish Rebels in Syria to Fight Each Other |
The Jerusalem Post | August 12, 2019 |
| Iran Says It Used New IRGC Drone Unit to Attack Kurdish Dissidents |
The Jerusalem Post | July 13, 2019 |
| New Iraqi Kurdish Prime Minister Declares 'New Era' |
The Jerusalem Post | July 10, 2019 |
| Kurdistan Region Worried as U.S. and Iran Tensions Grow |
The Jerusalem Post | May 16, 2019 |
| Kurds in Northern Iraq Want U.S. to Stay in Region |
The Jerusalem Post | February 14, 2019 |
| Kurdistan Region of Iraq Caught Between Turkey-PKK Conflict |
The Jerusalem Post | January 28, 2019 |
| Turkey and U.S. Can't Agree on What 'Safe Zone' in Syria Means |
The Jerusalem Post | January 22, 2019 |
| How Afrin Overshadows Eastern Syria |
The Jerusalem Post | January 3, 2019 |
| Why Eastern Syria Matters to Everyone in the Middle East |
The Jerusalem Post | December 31, 2018 |
| Trump's Rubicon moment in Iraq: Praising America's 'warriors,' ending wars |
The Jerusalem Post | December 27, 2018 |
| A Year of Tyranny and Murder |
The Jerusalem Post | December 27, 2018 |
| Analysis: Airstrike in Damascus an Embarrassment for Syrian Regime at Crucial Time |
The Jerusalem Post | December 26, 2018 |
| Israel and the Yazidis |
The Jerusalem Post | November 26, 2018 |
| Turkey Shells Kobani and Tel Abyad in Eastern Syria. What Are Its Next Moves? |
Middle East Center for Analysis and Reporting | November 2, 2018 |
| ISIS Counterattacks in Syria Threaten Iraq and US Partners |
Jerusalem Post | October 30, 2018 |
| Turkey's Syrian Quagmire |
BESA Center Perspectives Paper | October 10, 2018 |
| Iraq Has A New Government. Now What? |
Jerusalem Post | October 4, 2018 |
| Kurdistan Region in Iraq Goes to Polls a Year after Independence Vote |
Jerusalem Post | October 2, 2018 |
| Mr. Kurd: Trump's Kurdish Comments Greeted with Pride |
Jerusalem Post | September 28, 2018 |
| A Year after Referendum, Kurds in Iraq Face Iran and Us Powerbrokers |
Jerusalem Post | September 21, 2018 |
| Interview in Syria: Idlib after the Agreement |
Middle East Center for Analysis and Reporting | September 20, 2018 |
| Russia-Turkey Agreement to Prevent Syrian Invasion of Idlib, for Now |
Jerusalem Post | September 20, 2018 |
| Iran's Attack on Kurds Is a Message to Washington, Riyadh and Jerusalem |
Jerusalem Post | September 9, 2018 |
| Syrian War: Uneasy Calm in US-protected Kurdish Enclave |
The Australian | September 8, 2018 |
| Iranian Artillery Targets Kurdish Groups in Iraq |
Jerusalem Post | September 8, 2018 |
| Is Washington Scrambling To Prevent Iran-Backed Parties From Forming Iraq's New Government? |
Tzarizm | September 1, 2018 |
| Three Kurdish Groups in Iran Are Now Fighting the IRGC |
Jerusalem Post | August 12, 2018 |
| Turkey's Syrian Battleground |
BESA Center | March 21, 2018 |
| A Turning Point in the Kurdish-Western Alliance? |
JPost | March 1, 2018 |
| A Future for Kurdish Independence? |
Middle East Quarterly | Spring 2018 |
| No, the Syrian Kurds Are Not Terrorists |
World Affairs Journal | January 31, 2018 |
| Targeting Kurds in Syria: Making Turkey Feel Imperial Again |
The Gatestone Institute | January 25, 2018 |
| Iraqi Kurdistan's Post-Referendum Isolation Boosts Iran |
The Jerusalem Post | January 20, 2018 |
| Time to Kick Turkey out of NATO? |
World Affairs Journal | January 18, 2018 |
| Erdoğan's Kurdish Gambit |
BESA Center Perspectives | November 15, 2017 |
| The Disastrous Results of the Iraqi Kurds' Referendum |
The Jerusalem Post | October 27, 2017 |
| Iraqi Kurdistan's Crisis: A Failure of Strategy |
The American Spectator | October 22, 2017 |
| The Fall of Kirkuk: Made in Iran |
The American Interest | October 18, 2017 |
| Turkey Plans Move to Box in Kurds in Northern Syria |
The Jerusalem Post | October 14, 2017 |
| Terror Financing: It's Time to Take Care of Unfinished Business |
National Review Online | October 6, 2017 |
| The Islamic State and the Kurds: The Documentary Evidence |
CTC Sentinel | September 21, 2017 |
| Turkey's Mass Persecution of Christians and Kurds in Diyarbakır |
The Gatestone Institute | September 4, 2017 |
| The Kurds Are About to Blow up Iraq |
World Affairs Journal | August 17, 2017 |
| Many Muslims Need to Do Some Soul-Searching |
The Toronto Sun | June 13, 2017 |
| Turkey Arrests Kurdish Activist for Armenian Genocide Posts |
The Armenian Weekly | May 30, 2017 |
| Vilifying Syria's Kurds II: A Second Response to Roy Gutman |
Syria Comment | February 13, 2017 |
| Vilifying Syria's Kurds: A Response to Roy Gutman |
Syria Comment | February 11, 2017 |
| It's Time for Realism in Syria, President-elect Donald Trump |
The Hill | December 23, 2016 |
| Turkey's Misdiagnosed Kurdish Problem |
The Gatestone Institute | December 20, 2016 |
| Iranian Kurds Join the Fight |
The American Interest | December 15, 2016 |
| Disunity as Kurds, Turks, Shia, and Sunnis Fight over Mosul |
The Australian | October 8, 2016 |
| What Follows the Defeat of ISIS in Mosul? |
The Jerusalem Report | September 27, 2016 |
| Humor, Counter-terrorism, and ISIS |
The Sun-Sentinel | May 20, 2016 |
| In Syria, Locals Take the Fight Back to Islamic State |
The Australian | January 23, 2016 |
| Eclipse of the Caliphate |
The Jerusalem Report | January 21, 2016 |
| The Kurds Can Defeat ISIS if We Provide Incentives |
The Jerusalem Post | November 22, 2015 |
| Islamist Turkey Does Not Belong in NATO |
The Toronto Sun | November 3, 2015 |
| Blood and Ballots in Turkey |
The Huffington Post | October 26, 2015 |
| Turkey Still Dances with ISIS |
The Gatestone Institute | October 15, 2015 |
| Industry Unnerved by Spiral of Violence in Turkey |
Defense News | September 12, 2015 |
| Blame Iran and Turkey for the Mediterranean Refugee Crisis |
The Weekly Standard | September 12, 2015 |
| Middle East Provocations and Predictions |
The Mackenzie Institute | September 9, 2015 |
| America's 'Faustian Bargain' with Turkey |
The Gatestone Institute | September 8, 2015 |
| Turkey: Payback Time? |
The Gatestone Institute | August 30, 2015 |
| Turkey's Multiple Wars |
The Gatestone Institute | August 16, 2015 |
| Turkey and Its Kurds: At War Again |
The Gatestone Institute | August 6, 2015 |
| Turkey's Syrian Kurdish Problem |
The Jerusalem Post | July 4, 2015 |
| Turkey's Wrong Bet on Syria |
The Gatestone Institute | July 1, 2015 |
| Turkey: Hope and Fear |
The Huffington Post | June 23, 2015 |
| Eradicating Female Genital Mutilation in Iraqi Kurdistan |
The Weekly Standard | June 17, 2015 |
| Never Again? The ISIS Genocide of Yazidis |
The Huffington Post | June 10, 2015 |
| Iran's Kurdish Rebellion |
The Huffington Post | May 22, 2015 |
| Erdoğan's Graying, More Kurdish Turkey |
Hürriyet Daily News | May 15, 2015 |
| A Tremor in Iranian Kurdistan |
The Jerusalem Post | May 14, 2015 |
| The Kobani Precedent |
The Jerusalem Report | March 25, 2015 |
| Heartbreaking Times for Syrian Kurdish Refugees |
The Jerusalem Post | March 7, 2015 |
| Islamic State Defeat in Kobani Will Be Hard to Replicate |
The Jerusalem Post | January 29, 2015 |
| Female Genital Mutilation a Growing Problem in Iran |
The Weekly Standard | January 20, 2015 |
| When Turks Die, Intention is in the Eye of the Beholder |
The Gatestone Institute | January 12, 2015 |
| Did ISIS Use Chemical Weapons Against the Kurds in Kobani? |
Middle East Review of International Affairs | October 12, 2014 |
| Kurds Abandoned by Liberals, NDP |
The Toronto Sun | October 8, 2014 |
| Western Fear of Angering Turkey Leaves Besieged Kurdish Town at Mercy of Islamic State |
The Jerusalem Post | October 7, 2014 |
| The Defense of Kobani |
The Jerusalem Post | September 27, 2014 |
| The Guns of August |
The Jerusalem Report | September 17, 2014 |
| The Case for a Unified Kurdistan |
National Review Online | September 16, 2014 |
| At the Kurdistan Front |
The Weekly Standard | September 12, 2014 |
| Hello, Kurdistan |
The Washington Times | September 10, 2014 |
| Kurdish Advances |
The Jerusalem Post | June 21, 2014 |
| Surprising Ties between Israel and the Kurds |
Middle East Quarterly | Summer 2014 |
| Wars Within Wars |
The Weekly Standard | May 26, 2014 |
| Kurdistan Emerges |
The Jerusalem Post | March 8, 2014 |
| Kurds defending autonomous 'Rojava' enclave in Syria |
The Jerusalem Post | November 8, 2013 |
| Turkey's Fix for the "Kurdish Problem" |
Middle East Quarterly | Fall 2013 |
| Kurdish Rivalries in Syria |
The American Spectator | November 8, 2012 |
| Syria's Kurds stand alone after rejecting rebels and regime |
The National (Abu Dhabi) | July 23, 2012 |
| Iraqi Kurdistan Without Blinders |
The American Spectator | March 22, 2012 |
| Iraqi petroleum and the damage done |
The Daily Star (Beirut) | November 21, 2011 |
| Syria, Turkey and the Kurds |
Israel National News | November 18, 2011 |
| Preserving Iraq's Assyrians: Federalism |
Assyrian International News Agency | October 24, 2011 |
| Kurdish-Christian rivalries |
The Kurdistan Tribune | September 25, 2011 |
| Spring comes, but not for Iraq's Kurds |
The Daily Star (Beirut) | August 12, 2011 |
| Kurdish leaders are drunk with power |
Daily Star (Beirut) | July 1, 2009 |
| Kurdistan's Troubled Democracy |
Washington Post | April 18, 2009 |
| Is Iraqi Kurdistan a Good Ally? |
AEI Middle Eastern Outlook | January 2008 |
| Turkey's Terror Problem Is Ours |
Wall Street Journal | December 18, 2007 |
| [Mosul and] Iraq's Next War |
Jerusalem Post | October 31, 2007 |
| Iraqi Kurdistan's Downward Spiral |
Middle East Quarterly | Summer 2007 |
| Enabling Kurdish Illusions |
Weekly Standard | March 19, 2007 |
| The Barzani Chameleon |
Middle East Quarterly | Spring 2007 |
| Who Owns Kirkuk? The Kurdish Case |
Middle East Quarterly | Winter 2007 |
| Who Owns Kirkuk? The Turkoman Case |
Middle East Quarterly | Winter 2007 |
| Can the PKK Renounce Violence? |
Middle East Quarterly | Winter 2007 |
| Dissident Watch: Kamal Sayid Qadir |
Middle East Quarterly | Spring 2006 |
| The Same War |
New York Sun | November 2, 2005 |
| "The Arafat Model" |
National Review | September 12, 2005 |
| The PKK Factor |
National Review Online | August 5, 2004 |
| Ansar al-Islam: Back in Iraq |
Middle East Quarterly | Winter 2004 |
| Iraqi Kurds: Hour of Power? |
Middle East Quarterly | Summer 2003 |
| Jalal Talabani: "No Grounds for a Relationship with Baghdad" |
Middle East Quarterly | Winter 2002 |
| Why Syria and Turkey Gird for War |
Wall Street Journal Europe | October 9, 1998 |
| Abdullah Öcalan: "We Are Fighting Turks Everywhere" |
Middle East Quarterly | June 1998 |
| Turkey and Iran Face off in Kurdistan |
Middle East Quarterly | March 1998 |
| Beyond the Golan: Prospects for Syrian-Turkish Confrontation |
Turkish Times | February 15, 1996 |
| Hot Spot: Turkey, Iraq, and Mosul |
Middle East Quarterly | September 1995 |
| The Last Years of Mustafa Barzani |
Middle East Quarterly | June 1994 |
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