Kurds
The Aleppo Clashes Reflect the Deeper Contradiction Between Syria’s Centralized State Project and the SDF’s Autonomous Vision
If the Situation in Aleppo Spirals Out of Control, It Could Trigger Large-Scale Violence in Syria, Further Inflaming Ethnic Tensions
Federal Court Finds Ankara Responsible for a Coordinated Assault by Erdoğan’s Security Detail on Peaceful Protesters in Washington
The Party Was the Second-Largest Vote-Getter in Recent Parliamentary Elections, in Which It Courted Non-Kurdish Voters
Only When the Stigma of Killing Kurds or Occupying Cyprus Becomes Too Great to Bear Will Ankara Change Its Polemics
If Al-Sharaa Were Genuinely Committed to Political Pluralism and Inclusivity, He Would Engage with Syria’s Kurds, Druze, Christians, and Alawis
The New Government Is either Purposely Cynical or in Naive Denial About Its Treatment of Ethnic and Sectarian Minorities
The State, Treasury, and Justice Departments Should Intervene and Cast Aside the Traditional Attitude That ‘Kurds Will Be Kurds’
As Syria Enters This New Political Phase, the United States Faces a Critical Opportunity to Help Shape a More Stable and Inclusive Future
Turkey Aims to Establish Itself as a Sub-Regional Power to Fill the Void Left by a Weakened Russia and a Diminished Iran
Kurdish Politics Has Failed to Transcend Violence and Parties Cannot Safeguard Their Leaders and Families Without Militias
If the Kurds Want Respect on the World Stage, They Should Nominate Someone Respectable; They Once Were Iraq’s Engine for Democracy
Recent Waves of Violence Show That Syrians Cannot Coexist Without a Social Contract That Guarantees Mutual Acceptance
So Long as the United States Supports Party Militias in Iraqi Kurdistan, There Will Be No Security or Stability in the Region
The West Has Reacted with Indifference to Decades of Ethnic Cleansing, Forced Displacement and Other Suppression of Kurds
Don’t Expect Major Reforms from the Turkish State Regarding Kurdish Communities
A Shifting Geopolitical Landscape Gives the Kurdistan Regional Government Strategic Opportunity to Reclaim Its Lost Lands
Every Effort to Run Roughshod over the Region’s Ethnic and Sectarian Minorities Has Led to Dictatorship and State Failure
The PKK Founder’s Latest Call Stands in Contrast to Decades of Armed Struggle Against a State That Has Denied Kurdish Rights