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Worldcrunch » kurds

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February 15, 2025, Rome, Rm, Italy: 500 people join the protest organized by the Kurdish community in Rome to demand freedom for Abdullah Ocalan, founding member of the PKK party, arrested 26 years ago and sentenced to life imprisonment.
Geopoliticsturkey

Ocalan’s Plea: Could The Jailed Kurdish Leader Trigger A Domino Effect For Peace?

by Pierre Haski February 28, 2025May 24, 2025
photo of three soldiers with automatic rifles
Geopolitics

How The Kurdish Question Has Come To A Make-Or-Break Moment

by Pierre Haski and Sahal Ayamparambil January 2, 2025May 24, 2025
Photo of a young boy carrying the Syrian flag on his bag during a rally in Aleppo celebrating the fall of Bashar Al-Assad.
Geopoliticsturkey

Beyond The Flag — Why Building A New Syria Begins With A Question Of Identity

by Bashir Amin December 23, 2024May 24, 2025
Photo of a woman demonstrating during a rally in solidarity with Syrian Kurds in Hesse, Germany, on Dec. 14
Geopoliticspolitical islam

Joy And Trepidation: What Worries The Syrian Kurds After Assad’s Demise

by Shafan Ibrahim December 20, 2024May 24, 2025
Photo of Mehmet Aytunç Altay​
Societyturkey

What’s Changed, What Hasn’t: A Turkish Political Prisoner Walks Free After 31 Years

by Worldcrunch September 15, 2023May 24, 2025
Photo of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
In The Newsturkey

How Turkey’s Jumbled Opposition Bloc Can Take Erdogan Down

by Worldcrunch March 16, 2023May 21, 2025
Prison in Tal Abyad, Syria
Geopoliticssyria

A French Kid Dragged Into Jihad, Lingers In A Syrian Prison

by Brandon Ramirez January 11, 2020May 20, 2025
Waving Armenian flags wave flags at an LA march commemorating the Armenian genocide
Geopoliticsrussia

The Geopolitics Of Washington’s Stand On Armenian Genocide

by Anna Akage November 12, 2019May 21, 2025
Syrian forces in Qasr Yalda, northeastern Syria.
Geopoliticsrussia

What If Moscow Is The Real Loser In The New Syrian Chessboard?

by Anna Akage October 28, 2019May 21, 2025
Syrian children in Tell Abyad after a Turkish and Syrian-led offensive
Geopoliticssyria

Forced To Flee, Kurds In Syria Fear They May Never Return Home

by Rozena Crossman October 25, 2019May 20, 2025
A rescue worker holding a child after the alleged chemical attack in Douma
Ideassyria

Syria, How Did It Come To This?

by Worldcrunch April 10, 2018May 20, 2025
Christian soldiers in Mosul, Iraq.
Geopoliticssyria

The Shammar, The Tribe Fighting ISIS On The Front Lines

by Giacomo August 15, 2016May 22, 2025
Turkish President Erdogan on April 2
Geopoliticspolitics

What Turkey Needs If It Wants Peace: A Real Democracy

by Worldcrunch June 10, 2016May 22, 2025
Turkey Right Now: Awful Government, Awful Opposition
Geopoliticsturkey

Turkey Right Now: Awful Government, Awful Opposition

by Worldcrunch April 6, 2016May 22, 2025
John Kerry with Foreign Ministers of the Gulf Cooperation Council in Riyadh last week.
Ideassyria

Syria Talks in Geneva: Who’s Who May Be The Hardest Question

by Worldcrunch January 26, 2016May 22, 2025
Kid playing inside Iraq's Mar Mattai monastery
Geopoliticsiraq

At Iraq’s Oldest Monastery, ISIS Could Arrive Any Day

by Worldcrunch October 2, 2015May 23, 2025
Anti-PKK protests in Ankara
Geopoliticsgenocide

From Armenian Genocide To Kurdish Rebels, Turkey Is A Nation In Denial

by Bertrand Hauger September 10, 2015May 22, 2025
Hollywood actor turned YPG volunteer Michael Enright
Geopoliticssyria

When Westerners Go To Syria To Fight Against ISIS

by Worldcrunch September 3, 2015May 23, 2025
Turkish safe zone, China's stock implosion, Jacko's 20K glove
blogsouth korea

Turkish safe zone, China’s stock implosion, Jacko’s 20K glove

by Worldcrunch July 28, 2015May 23, 2025
Chinese stock losses, Trump tops GOP poll, Pee-proof walls
blogdonald trump

Chinese stock losses, Trump tops GOP poll, Pee-proof walls

by Worldcrunch July 27, 2015May 22, 2025
Obama's Kenya visit, Astronauts reach ISS, World Internet map
blogisrael

Obama’s Kenya visit, Astronauts reach ISS, World Internet map

by Worldcrunch July 23, 2015May 20, 2025
Turkish soldiers at the Syrian border in October
Geopoliticssyria

Eight Reasons Why Turkey Will Not Cross The Syrian Border

by Nastassia Dobremez July 10, 2015May 22, 2025
A Turkish military parade in Istanbul on Oct. 29, 2014.
Syria Crisisisis

Is Turkey Getting Ready To Invade Syria?

by Worldcrunch July 3, 2015May 21, 2025
Two YPG fighters near al-Hasakah, Syria
Geopoliticssyria

Al-Hasakah, At The Crossroads Of The Syrian Civil War

by Patrick Randall April 16, 2015May 22, 2025
Turkish troops on the outskirts of Kobani
Geopoliticssyria

ISIS, The Caliphate Of Madmen Starts To Crumble

by Liz Garrigan November 25, 2014May 24, 2025
Signs of war this week in Diyarbakir
Geopoliticsisis

Rumblings Of Two Wars In Turkey’s ‘Kurdish Capital’ Of Diyarbakir

by Patrick Randall October 16, 2014May 22, 2025
Peshmerga Special Forces in Zakho, Iraq
Geopoliticsnato

The Italian State Secret That Could Aid The Kurds

by Julie Farrar August 26, 2014May 22, 2025
Kurdish women training to be fighters.
Geopoliticssyria

Kurdish Women Fighters Help Halt ISIS In Syria

by Liz Garrigan August 12, 2014May 22, 2025
A Syrian bomb maker from Deir Al Zour, in eastern Syria, in 2013.
Geopoliticsisis

From Syria To Iraq, Can Allies Of Circumstance Take Down Jihadists?

by Meiqi An July 24, 2014May 22, 2025
Peshmerga fighters defending Kirkuk after the Iraqi army fled.
Geopoliticsiraq

In Kirkuk, Last Bastion For The Kurds

by Patrick Randall June 24, 2014May 22, 2025
Istanbul's Türk Telekom Arena
Societyturkey

How Racism And Sexism Permeate Turkish Soccer

by Jeff Israely January 9, 2014May 21, 2025
Kung Fu students at the 10th Zhengzhou International Shaolin Wushu Festival
Geopoliticschina

Ebola Nurse Cured, Pope Overruled, Italy’s Baby Bonus

by Bertrand Hauger October 20, 2013May 22, 2025
Muslims pray at a China mosque Sunday during the Eid al-Adha festival.
Geopoliticsunited kingdom

Rousseff Leads, Cow Doping, Nobel Prize Week

by Liz Garrigan October 6, 2013May 21, 2025
A Syrian man covers a dead Syrian army soldier with a blanket after a battle last year near Ras al Ayn, Syria
Geopoliticsturkey

Along Syria-Turkey Border, A New Battle Is On Between Islamists And Kurds

by Worldcrunch September 24, 2013May 22, 2025
Turkish authorities clamp down at border crossings.
Geopoliticssyria

Syrian Kurds, Mars Climate Change, Car-Free Day

by Liz Garrigan September 22, 2013May 21, 2025
London protest against live exports out of the UK.
Geopoliticsunited kingdom

Grim Ukraine, FIFA Ticket Scam, July 4 Hot Dogs

by Bertrand Hauger July 4, 2013May 23, 2025
Women in the Kurdistan Workers Party, also known as the PKK
Geopoliticsturkey

Women Of The PKK: Fighting For Kurdish Rights And Gender Equality

by Leo Tilmont March 22, 2013May 22, 2025
Kurdish flag flies bright
Geopoliticssyria

A Kurdish People, The Kurdish Questions

by Jeff Israely January 11, 2013May 24, 2025
Geopoliticsturkey

Three Kurdish Women Activists Shot Dead In Paris

by Bertrand Hauger January 10, 2013May 22, 2025

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