Strengthening British-Kurdish ties
Opinion: Strengthening British-Kurdish ties GARY KENT rudow.net A+A-For years, the starting point for many Kurds in assessing relations with the UK was Sykes-Picot, the agreement of 1916 between Britain and […]
A better way for Turkey to tackle the PKK
Author YASAR YAKIS February 28, 2021 Short Url https://arab.news/rgh4x Several aspects of the Feb. 10 Turkish military operation 35 kilometers inside Iraqi territory in the Gara Mountain are still the […]
After Garê: Why Turkey’s war on terror is misunderstood
Aydın Selcen aselcen@gazeteduvar.com.tr According to Ankara’s narrative, the West (the U.S and EU) is duplicitous and hypocrite when it is faced with different kinds of terrorist actions or depending on […]
How Erbil and Baghdad could fuel Iraq’s recovery
Author HAFED AL-GHWELL January 16, 2021 Short Url https://arab.news/zy6tz After Daesh’s defeat and expulsion from Iraq, an emergent crop of post-civil war leaders became well positioned to reap a political, […]
The Turks say: US sends additional $400M to YPG/PKK terrorists in Syria
BY DAILY SABAH WITH AA ANKARA WAR ON TERROR OCT 03, 2020 In this file photo, a U.S. military officer speaks with a YPG terrorist at the site of Turkish airstrikes […]
One Way the Kurdish Insurgency Could Lead to the Collapse of Turkey
Once other countries even covertly begin supporting the Kurdish insurgency in Turkey, there will be no turning back. by Michael Rubin Modern Turkey arose nearly one hundred years ago against the […]
Swiss court approves extradition of PKK recruiter to Germany
Swiss court approves extradition of PKK recruiter to Germany A PKK militant stands at a barricade in Diyarbakir, southeast Turkey (2016). Keystone Switzerland’s highest court says it has approved the extradition […]
Keeping Turkey’s forces occupied aboard has a number of advantages for Erdogan
Moving forces into northern Iraq is the president’s third major military incursion against the Kurds since 2016 Ahmed Aboudouh @AAboudouh Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar and army commanders follow the operation in northern Iraq at Air Force Command Control Center in Ankara ( Turkish Ministry of Defense Pres ) The Independent employs reporters around the […]
Is Ankara afraid of being invaded?
Source: Arab News By Abdulrahman Al-Rashed The Syrian war, which began nine years ago, marks the first time that Turkey’s air force and artillery has targeted Syrian regime forces and Iranian militias. Turkish F-16 fighter jets or drones would not have entered Syrian airspace — where Syrian, Iranian and Russian […]
Erdogan’s ethnic cleansing of the Kurds is still happening now – and we have Trump to thank
Making life impossible for a civilian population can take other effective but less dramatic forms than the use of white phosphorus or roadside killings Patrick Cockburn @indyworld Mass expulsion or […]
Berlin Worried about IS Fighters Coming Home
The German government long shied away from bringing German Islamic State fighters and their families back from Syria. But with the Turkish invasion of northern Syria, that hesitancy is coming […]
Trump and Erdogan have much in common – and the Kurds will be the tragic victims of their idiocy
Related video: Donald Trump suggests he has no problem with President Erdogan being ‘tough’ on the Kurds How can the EU stand idly by while Turkey conducts such vile business […]
Erdogan’s assault in Syria will draw in regional powers, and risks handing Turkey its own Yemen-style quagmire
The Turkish president, who always championed Turkey’s ‘zero-problems’ policy with its neighbours, has ended up kicking off what has become a ‘zero-peace’ reality Ahmed Aboudouh @Abodou7 Turkish president Recep Tayyip […]
Kurdish soldiers I spoke to feared Trump would be a treacherous ally. But the scale of his betrayal is terrifying
We are already on the downslope leading to the ethnic cleansing of up to 2 million Kurds in the vast triangle of land which they call Rojava in northeast Syria […]
Trump leaves his Kurdish allies utterly betrayed by a shady deal with a desperate Erdogan
The Turkish president has agreed to be the prison guard for northern Syria in return for some political gains for his own domestic survival Alpaslan Ozerdem It is no secret […]
Exclusive: New Kurdish PM says priority is stronger Baghdad ties, rather than independence
Jul 10, 2019 By Raya Jalabi ERBIL, Iraq (Reuters) – Two years after a failed independence bid plunged Iraq’s Kurdistan Region into months of instability, the new regional prime minister […]
The Iraqi example : Iraq, an Arab and a Kurdish state
Mar 16,2019 – JORDAN TIMES – WALID M. SADI Iraq has set a perfect example for dealing with its large Kurdish minority while preserving the unity of the country by […]
A view from Turkey: Did Trump really threaten Turkey?
BURHANETTIN DURAN @burhanduran Published January 15, 2019 Despite threatening economic sanctions against the Turks on Twitter, U.S. President Donald Trump still remains committed to withdrawing from Syria and working together […]
Trump Threatens to ‘Devastate Turkey Economically’ if It Attacks Kurds
By THOMAS GIBBONS-NEFF Mr. Trump’s tweets threatened to upend negotiations between Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and his Turkish counterpart, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu. WASHINGTON — President Trump threatened […]
Erdogan threats against Kurds will not stop Syria withdrawal, Pompeo says
This content was published on January 9, 2019 By Raya Jalabi and Lesley Wroughton BAGHDAD/CAIRO (Reuters) – The U.S. troop withdrawal from Syria will not be scuppered despite […]