Published by Syria in Crisis – Carnegie Endowment for International Peace – 5 May 2014 Since summer 2013, the People’s Protection Units (YPG), the armed wing of the Democratic Union Party (PYD), a Syrian Kurdish political group, has been engaged in armed...
A dirty little war is grinding on in northern Syria, off the West’s radar and beyond the reach of much of its media, writes Jonathan Spyer, who has just returned from a visit to the besieged Kurdish enclave of Kobani. The conflict between the jihadist Islamic State of...
Publication: Terrorism Monitor Volume: 12 Issue: 9 May 2, 2014 The main Kurdish militia in Syria, the Yekîneyên Parastina Gel (YPG – Kurdish People’s Protection Units), has survived a siege of the town of Kobani (Arabic: Ayn al-Arab) by Islamist extremists belonging...
By Hendrik Müller (vol. 7, no. 8 of the Turkey Analyst) The determination of Turkey’s Constitutional Court to fulfill its role of upholding the rule of law, in spite of this putting it at odds with the mercurial prime minister, has unexpectedly presented a check on...
“Rojava is the only region in the world where women have organized themselves to ideologically and physically fight Islamist forces” by Saladdin Ahmed An oft-quoted Kurdish proverb, “Kurds have no friends but the mountains,” speaks to Kurdish experiences...
Brussels, 12 May 2014 – Ararat News (ANP) – Kurdish movement in Turkey (PKK) has been added in EU terror list since 2003 after strong pushing from Turkey and USA. Kurdish politicians and leadership appealed immediately to the European Court of Justice (ECJ), which has...
