Living in interesting times – a weekly news review
This has been a relatively quiet week for Kurdish politics, but that doesn’t mean that life has got any easier. ...
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UCAVs and Kurdish resistance: shifting war balances
Amed Dicle UCAVs (Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicles) play an important role in the Turkish state's conflict with the Kurds. Since ...
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The deliberate isolation of Öcalan: silencing a leader and its impact on democracy in Turkey
Haydar Ergül It has been thirty-nine months since the total isolation and incommunicado detention was imposed on PKK Leader Abdullah ...
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CHP against ‘trustees’: a twinkling light in the CHP tunnel?
Fréderike Geerdink Just in case you thought the protests against the replacement of the elected co-mayor of Hakkari by a ...
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Diyarbakır as exemplar of the Kurdish condition – a weekly news review
Sarah Glynn Diyarbakır, or Amed to use its Kurdish name, is regarded as the capital of Bakur: North – or ...
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‘The Palace and The Judiciary Have Declared War on The People’ – a Weekly News Review
These were the words of Tülay Hatimoğulları, co-chair of the DEM Party, responding to the detention of the recently elected ...
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Recent recognition of Palestinian statehood is welcome, but could it really bring lasting freedom?
The Norwegian, Irish and Spanish states have recently taken the step of recognising Palestinian statehood. Finland has announced that it ...
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A Dutch extreme-right government, rooted in colonialism
Fréderike Geerdink So, this country of mine, the Netherlands, is going to have an extreme-right government, initiated by Geert ...
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