More than 12,000 Kurds live in the camp, located on a slope of the Qarachokh Mountains. How they ended up there is a long and tragic story, which began in the ’90s, when Turkey emptied...
Matt Broomfield reports from Rojava Last night I slept in a Kurdish friend’s house here in Rojava. His daughter, brash and confident at 6, stood on a table and performed the songs she has been...
By James M. Dorsey A podcast version of this article is available at https://soundcloud.com/user-153425019/attack-in-iran-raises-spectre-of-a-potentially-far-larger-conflagration An attack on a military parade in the southern Iranian city of Ahwaz is likely to prompt Iranian retaliation against opposition...
Ayse Celik, a teacher living in the city of Diyarbakir in southeast Turkey, will go to prison on April 20 with the accusation of “terrorist propaganda” for saying, “don’t let children die,” on a popular...
A groom was arrested on his way to his wedding, in Turkeys Diyarbekir province. The groom was accused of insulting president Erdogan on social media posts/messages. The groom got sentenced to prison for three years...
The origins of the Red Line Agreement can be traced back to the initial formation of the Turkish Petroleum Company (TPC) in 1912. The TPC was formed as a joint venture between Royal Dutch/Shell, the...
Turkey has decided to form a huge army of Islam by uniting 57 Muslim countries. A Turkish newspaper in its report revealed that the army of 5 million men will be baptized “Army of Islam”....
BEIRUT, LEBANON (5:50 P.M.) – Turkey is actively seeking to have the Russian military kick out the Kurdish-led YPG forces from the northern Aleppo town of Tal Rifa’at, a source in Aleppo told Al-Masdar News...
Over 200,000 residents of the Syrian city of Afrin have been forced out of their homes within as a result of Turkey’s military operation. Hevi Mustafa, co-chairman of the Executive Council of the Canton of...
Afrin besieged by Turkey: analysis (geopolitical) By Chris Den Hond Translate By : Hassan Ghazi During the round table in the premises of the Syrian Research Center, on “political issues in Syria” on March 18,...