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Time for Turkey to Support an Independent Iraqi Kurdistan
Reuters For a few years now, Turkey has been engaged in a delicate balance between the Iraqi government in Baghdad and the Kurdistan Regional Government in northern Iraq. Ankara has not wanted to...
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Turkish Kurds and Presidential Politics
Wikimedia Late last week, the Turkish government submitted a bill to the Grand National Assembly advancing the stalled-but-ongoing process toward resolution of the country’s longstanding Kurdish...
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False Solutions: the Islamic State, the Kurds and Generational War
via Facebook Some historians see the period between 1914 and 1945 as the replication of another Thirty Years War. There was the illusion of peace between 1919 and 1939 – the failed efforts of the...
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The PKK and Turkey’s Tough Position
Shawn Nickel As the Obama administration continues to court potential allies for its US-led coalition against the Islamic State group, many critics focus on Turkey’s sluggish response to publicly...
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Turkey’s Convoluted Path Suggests a Tough Fit Within U.S.-Defined Mission
Sebastian Backhaus This week’s arrival of peshmerga and Free Syrian Army (FSA) fighters in Kobani to counter advances by the Islamic State (IS) marks a critical turning point in Turkey’s shifting...
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The Kurdish Calculus
Understanding the balance of power in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, and identifying KRG strategies toward greater autonomy in the face of regional competing interests. “We’ve been at the fault lines...
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Middle East Conflicts Spill onto Spanish Soccer Pitch
Inevitably, the mass exodus of refugees from conflict areas into Europe was going to provoke multiple disputes. Spanish soccer is the first of these. Kurdish rebels have accused a Syrian coach who was...
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Players and Motives behind the Turkish Bombing
Such massive scale violence, like that which Turkey endured at Saturday’s peace protest against resumed hostilities between the Turkish state and Kurdish militants, is always followed with the...
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Turkey’s Election Turmoil
As Turkey gears up for one of the most important elections in its recent history, the country appears, as one analyst noted, to be coming apart at the “seams”: Longstanding tensions with the country’s...
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Soccer Offers Erdogan Headaches Instead of Voters
Turkish soccer has offered President Recep Tayyip Erdogan more headaches than likely votes as the Turkish leader battles to ensure that his ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) will secure a...
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