So when Erdogan announced that Operation Peace Spring was intended to establish a 'safe zone' extending 32 kilometers into Syria from which the SDF would be expelled in order to resettle millions of Syrian Arab refugees, he was plainly planning an ethnic cleansing of Kurds. As explained in an earlier..…
They placed anti- Trump article in Tuesday New York Times, under the long title, As Kurds Tracked ISIS Leader, U.S. ..…
Let someone else fight over this long blood-stained sand, in White House speech that formalized the ceding of Syria to Ankara increasingly Moscow.. ..…
While Turkish continue to deny this history to this day, in 1915 the nation of Turkey engaged in genocide of Armenian people. The mass killing reduced Armenian population from two million to 400,000.. ..…
In an article written in 2007, NPR senior news analyst Daniel Schorr stated that the Kurds of Iraq have a long history of being used as pawns in regional power struggles. ..…
In order to understand the reason why Donald Trump acquiesced in the face of Turkish onslaught against Kurds Syria, Syria analyst Hassan Hassan came up with in his recent article for The Guardian.. ..…
This afternoon, about United States's decision to pull its troops out of Syria, and Turkey's invasion into that battle space to defeat Kurds, I once again wanted to read the article to guide my analysis.. ..…
After President Trump announced his controversial decision to pull some US troops from Northern Syria near the Turkish border, opening the way for a Turkish offensive against Kurds who had been allied with the US, the president attempted to explain his policy by noting that the Kurds are: . …..…
You will notice if you read the article, other the rest is about the re-establishment of American power. Kurds who've had to leave the area and seek refuge elsewhere, including Turkey, welcome Turkish initiative to create safe zone for them to return home.. ..…
Defense Secretary Mark Esper indicated, was that Washington's Kurdish-led ally, Syrian Democratic Forces, were looking to make deal with Russia to counter Turkish onslaught.. ..…
BEIRUT QAMISHLI, Syria, - Syrian and Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces have been holding negotiations with Russian, Syrian Kurdish politician said on Sunday, expressing hope for deal that would halt Turkish attack... ..…
But there was no way to hide the events of March 2015, when Netanyahu strategized with then-House Speaker John Boehner so he could address Congress, in his campaign to lobby against Iran nuclear deal.. ..…
Turkey dubbed the operation as “Operation Peace Spring” claiming that its attack of Kurds is intended for regional stability and peace. ... Turkey dubbed the operation as “Operation Peace Spring” claiming that its attack of Kurds is intended for regional stability and peace. ..…
In a challenging article for The New York Time, titled 'Israelis Watch US Abandon Kurds, and Worry: Who’s Next?'..…
Kurds have vowed ‘all-out’ war . Fox News, by Edmund DeMarche & Lucas Tomlinson . Original Article . Posted By: Pluperfect, 10/7/2019 4:24:39 AM . The White House announced late Sunday that Turkey will soon move forward with its planned military operation in northeast Syria in an area..…
Syrian Kurds criticize UN envoy over committee. ..…
Kirkuk’s situation should be normalized, and any census should be conducted within the framework of Article 140. Kurds see the population census in Kirkuk as a tool for disregarding the rights of Kurds.” . ..…
Krishna Upadhyaya, 52, and Gundev Ghimire, 36, were working for Global Network for Rights and Development. ..…
it seems that piecemeal defections from Kurdish National Council to Kurdish in the north of the country are the rule of the day.. ..…
She has been living in Istanbul for over 10 years and previously wrote about the Turkish government’s crackdown on journalists, Kurds, leftists, dissidents, activists and academics. . . . Correction: Jul 24, 2019 An earlier version of this article misidentified the Turkish writer and..…
The war against Kurds is sort of article of faith for Turkey's hardliners, and that alone seems to be the primary driving force behind this invasion. ..…
DIYARBAKIR, Turkey - Actor Kemal Ulusoy and the rest of his Kurdish theatre group lost their jobs along with thousands of others in southeast Turkey after the state seized control of about 100 town councils won by the pro- Kurdish party at the last local elections... ..…
For this reason, many leftists hope the United States stays in eastern Syria to protect the Kurds’ autonomous and democratic future. In an article in In These Times, Meredith Tax addresses many of the arguments used by the left to oppose interventionist policies, arguing that Washington..…
The US Institute of “Peace,” also claimed as an undesirable implication of a US troop withdrawal – the possibility of Syria’s Kurds negotiating with Damascus – a key prerequisite for peace in Syria. . The article would complain: . The Kurds may decide they have no choice..…
Erdogan also wrote in the article that Turkey has no argument with Syrian Kurds, despite fears that he will order his troops to slaughter them once U.S leaves Syria.. ..…
Ahmed Rasheed and Raya Jalabi, “Iraqi court rules Kurdish independence vote unconstitutional,” Reuters, November 20, 2017, available at https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-iraq-kurds/iraqi-court-rules-kurdish-independence-vote-unconstitutional-idUSKBN1DK0Q6. . ... (London:..…
Turkey exerted its political and economic pressure on Iraq's Kurdistan Regional Government to close the headquarters of political parties that share the ideology of Kurdistan Workers Party.. ..…
In 1946, Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry was assembled to examine the political, economic and social conditions then- Palestine order to make recommendations on the issue of Jewish and settlement. ..…
Bolton was in the article, that Iraqi Kurds do not deserve to be lumped in the category as PKK.. ..…
However the main reason, that this time it's different is that Russia is making it clear that it's willing to enforce Syria, so that it will get the credit for bringing about peace... ..…
When the AKP lost its majority in the June 2015 election, President Erdoğan tried to discredit the successful HDP, and win nationalist votes, by declaring war on Turkeys Kurds and ending the peace process (...) . Share this article . Translations >> . . . . The Middle East in 1939 . ..…
Kurds, Baluchs) opposed to the ruling regime. ” . According to James Risen’s NYT article, the US was already involved with Jundallah in 2007. . ..…
If so, it was the worst chemical weapons attack since Saddam Hussein gassed thousands of Iraqi Kurds in 1988. . This article is by Khaled Yacoub Oweis and Erika Solomon of Reuters. With additional reporting by Mariam Karouny and William Maclean in Beirut, Phil Stewart in Bandar Seri..…
Marines and Iraqis al-Anbar, bomber struck Iraq and car bomb exploded Baghdad near restaurant. ..…