Kurdish victory in Kobani defeat for Turkish policy
Amberin Zaman –January 28, 2015 “Kobani is free. Ocalan is next,” thousands of Kurds chanted across Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Syria when they celebrated the liberation of Kobani on the Syrian-Turkish border after … Continue reading
Capital, the State, and War: A Note on the Relation of Uneven and Combined Development to Historical Materialism
DisorderofThings: A guest post from Kamran Martin (also the author of this popular and important piece on Kobani, recently liberated from the forces of the Islamic State). It is the third … Continue reading
Turkey’s leftists, Kurds celebrate Syriza victory
Cengiz Candar: Late at night on Jan. 25, more than 500,000 Twitter followers of Selahattin Demirtas, the co-chairman of the pro-Kurdish People’s Democracy Party (HDP) in Turkey, were dumbfounded by seeing him … Continue reading
The World’s Next Country- BY CHRISTIAN CARYL
FP- ERBIL, Iraq — As you walk around the streets of this city of 500,000, you could be forgiven for thinking you’re in the capital of a small but up-and-coming … Continue reading
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How Turkey misread the Kurds- Al Jazeera
Turkey appears to have overlooked the anger bubbling among its own Kurds towards its Syria policy. Cale Salih Cale Salih is a Visiting Fellow at the European Council on Foreign … Continue reading
‘Welcome to Stalingrad. Welcome to Kobane’: Inside the Syrian Town Under Siege by the Islamic State- By Danny Gold January 13, 2015
– ViceNews: “Welcome to Stalingrad. Welcome to Kobane,” said a Kurdish militant, starting his car. A mad dash across the closed Turkish border had just brought us into the majority Kurdish … Continue reading
“No. This is a Genuine Revolution”
By David Graeber and Pinar Öğünç/ December 26, 2014 Professor of Anthropology at the London School of Economics, activist, anarchist David Graeber had written an article for the Guardian in October, … Continue reading
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