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PKK–Ankara Talks Resume
Supporters of the pro-Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party wave flags and hold up a poster of Abdullah Öcalan as they attend the party’s congress in Ankara on 14 October 2012. Source: ADEM...
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Three’s A Crowd
Iraqi Kurdistan Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani (L) and Turkey’s Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu shake hands on his arrival in Ankara in May 2012. Source: ADEM ALTAN/AFP/GettyImages My career as a...
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A Kurdish Mold for the Tuareg
Malian Tuareg soldiers patrol in the streets of Gao on February 3. Source: 2013SIA KAMBOU/AFP/Getty ImagesRecently, the world was surprised by yet another nasty consequence of the Arab Spring:...
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Big Brother Erdoğan
Kurds carry the coffins of victims of a Turkish air raid, outside Uludere Hospital in Uludere, Sirnak province, on December 30, 2011. Thousands of mourning Kurds branded Turkish Prime Minister Recep...
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The Stateless Statesmen
A birds-eye view of the northern Iraqi city of Erbil, the capital of the autonomous Kurdistan region, on 19 March 2013The vast majority of global debate over the tenth anniversary of the invasion of...
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War of Words
Kurdish women wave flags of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party during celebrations of Nowruz, the Persian New Year festival, on March 21, 2013 in Diyarbakir. STRINGER/AFP/Getty Images It is only a fish...
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Tailoring the Dress Code
Children line up for morning assembly at a Kurdish village school in Kars province. GEORGE GEORGIOU önlük [EARN-look] n. apron, uniform If somebody asked me to choose a single sound that summed up my...
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PKK Waves Flag of Islam
Pro-Kurdish politicians Sirri Sureyya Onder (L) and Pelvin Buldan (R) read jailed Kurdish rebel chief Abdullah Öcalan’s message on March 21, 2013, in the southern Turkish city of Diyarbakır....
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PKK fighters begin withdrawal from Turkey
Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) rebels gather to listen to the speech of PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan on April 25, 2013 in the Qandil mountains. AFP/Getty ImagesERBIL, Asharq Al-Awsat—Kurdistan Workers’...
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No Room for Maneuver
Khalid Azizi, the secretary-general of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) of Iran. Khalid Azizi is a composed and soft-spoken man; he does not exhibit the fiery rhetoric that would be expected of a...
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Awakening Pera
Istanbul circa 1955. The Galata neighborhood can be seen in the foreground overlooking the Golden Horn. Hulton Archive/Getty Images When a small group of environmentalists and liberals started sleeping...
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Iraq: Tuz Khormatu declared disaster area following terrorist attacks
Iraqis inspect the damage at the site of two car bomb blasts in Tuz Khormatu, a town in the Saladin province, on May 21, 2013. MARWAN IBRAHIM/AFP/Getty Images BAGHDAD, Asharq Al-Awsat—The Iraqi...
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A Dangerous Supply Chain
A rebel fighter loads his machine gun during fighting with Syrian government forces on April 1, 2013 in Aleppo. Guillaume Briquet/AFP/Getty Images The recent decision by the British, French and...
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A Turkish Helping Hand
: A file picture dated 1992 shows Abdallah Ocalan, leader of the Kurdish Workers Party (PKK) with his guerillas at a training camp in the village of Helweh, in Lebanon’s Bekaa valley about two...
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Prospects for Kurdish Peace
A masked Kurdish boy flashes the ‘V for victory’ sign while another holds a flag showing a portrait of PKK jailed leader Abdullah Öcalan during a protest in Diyarbakır on June 30, 2013. (Mehmet...
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Influx of Syrian Kurdish refugees into Iraq causes concern
Syrian refugees cross the border into the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq on August 17, 2013. Faced with brutal violence and soaring prices, thousands of Syrian Kurds have poured into Iraq’s...
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Who Watches the Watchers?
A village guard holding his rifle on April 10, 2010, in the mountainous southeastern city of Siirt. Dressed in Turkish military fatigues, his Kalashnikov leaned against a wall, Mahsun Alan is among...
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Turkey, The Loner State
Prime Minister of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdoğan attends the second working meeting of the G20 heads of state and government on September 6, 2013 in St. Petersburg, Russia. (Alexander Vilf/Host Photo...
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Snubbing the Kurds
Turkish high school students pose on October 1, 2013 in the predominantly Kurdish city of Diyarbakır, a day after Erdoğan’s reform package was announced. (Mehmet Engin/AFP/Getty Images)When Turkey’s...
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The Kurds Are Now Their Own Worst Enemies
Syrian Kurdish families wait for permission from the People’s Protection Units to cross into Iraq’s Kurdish autonomous region on October 21, 2013. (Mauricio Morales/AFP/Getty Images) Last Tuesday’s...
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