The PKK’s New Media Map Is a Political Map
The PKK-aligned movement has launched a new political-news channel, Nûçe TV, as part of a wider restructuring of its media…
The Demographics That Doomed a Kurdish National Project in Syria
A micro-level look at the demographics of northern Syria reveals how much Kurdish nationalist expectations have diverged from ground realities,…
Casualty Data Point to a Narrow Social Base for Iran’s Exiled Kurdish Parties
The exiled armed parties have built their strategy around merging with an internal Iranian uprising rather than sustaining a conventional…
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Why Iran’s Kurds Are the Most Divided Kurdish Population
The Kurds of Iran are the most internally divided Kurdish population across all four parts of Kurdistan. Dialect, sect, geography, and five centuries inside an Iranian state have produced a…
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Kurdish Gains in Syria Are Real. A Kurdish Region Is Not.
Several important developments in recent weeks have made the direction of the SDF-Damascus integration agreement much clearer, even if implementation remains gradual and incomplete. The broad contours of the deal…
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Turkey’s PKK Peace Commission Adopts a Disarmament Framework and a Regional Doctrine
Turkey’s parliamentary peace commission, established to chart a political and legal path out of the decades-long conflict with the PKK, adopted its landmark report on 18 February 2026, laying out an architecture…
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The Syria Crisis Triggered a Different Battle in the Kurdistan Region: Over What It Means to Be Kurdish
When fighting between the Syrian Democratic Forces and Damascus-aligned forces escalated in early-to-mid January, the Kurdistan Region of Iraq responded on two levels at once. The mainstream reaction was instinctive…
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Four Maps That Explain Iran’s Complex Kurdish-Populated Provinces
To outsiders, the Kurdish region of Iran, often called Rojhelat (eastern Kurdistan) among Kurds, might appear as a monolithic ethnic block clinging to the Zagros Mountains along the Iraqi and…
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Ocalan’s Ascent to ‘Father of the Kurds’: The PKK’s Ideologue and ‘Semi-Divine’ Centre of Gravity
This past week, three MPs who together represent a majority in the Turkish parliament flew by helicopter to the island prison of İmralı in the Sea of Marmara and spent…
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Poll Reveals Widespread Political Disengagement Across Kurdistan Region
A recent survey by Sbey Research, a Sulaimani-based research organization, has uncovered striking patterns of political detachment among residents of the Kurdistan Region. The findings are particularly significant given the…
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