KURDISTAN REGION OF IRAQ CAUGHT BETWEEN TURKEY-PKK CONFLICT
28th January 2019
Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga, in a photo taken in 2015.. (photo credit: SETH J. FRANTZMAN) On Saturday Kurdish protesters in northern Iraq briefly entered a Turkish base after Turkish airstrikes had killed Kurdish civilians last week. The ...
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Turkey vs Kurdish group: Can the Astana Process achieve, what the Geneva process didn’t?
28th January 2019
Kurdish rebels: Photo source: (Facebook) By Rajan Kumar The Astana process must negotiate a deal between Turkey and the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG), the leading force in the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), which fought ...
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By Paul Iddon Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s visit to Moscow last week to discuss Syria with Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin followed two crucial developments in the war-torn country. The first was U.S. President Donald ...