Turkey’s Kurdish peace process presses ahead after breakthrough over the ‘framework law’
Following months of slowdown caused by the Iran war and by disagreement over the nature of the draft bill that…
How Damascus Is Trading Institutional Manning for Coercive Penetration in Hasakah
The Syrian government has announced a provisional executive office in Hasakah province with a roughly 6:4 ratio favouring SDF-linked appointees…
Tehran’s Quiet Campaign on the Kurdistan Border
At least nine Iranian Kurdish fighters from the Komala movement were killed today in an Iranian attack in Sulaimani province.…
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Where Turkey’s PKK Framework Law Stands
Negotiations over the legal framework for the PKK peace process have entered their final stage, with the ruling bloc aiming to pass the law before parliament rises for its summer…
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After the Ceasefire, Iran’s Kurdish War Moves Inside
A two-week escalation across Iranian Kurdistan has killed at least 21 people. It is the deadliest confrontation between Tehran and the Kurdish armed parties in over a decade, and the…
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Turkey’s PKK Law: What It Will Contain and Why It Is Taking So Long
President Erdogan confirmed on 24 June that his government was preparing a legal framework to accelerate the dissolution of the PKK, ending several weeks of speculation over whether any legislation would be…
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What a Grand Mosque Reveals About Why Kurdistan Can’t Form a Government
Masrour Barzani’s grand mosque borrows the language of Gulf monarchy and the personal ambitions of Mohammed bin Zayed. Read closely, it also explains why the Kurdistan Region still has no…
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Hasakah: After the Territory, the Fight Over Coercive Power
The Latest on SDF-Damascus Integration: • The region is in a transitional period, and security has been deteriorating steadily but at an accelerating pace across the SDF-held pocket, especially in…
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Turkey’s Kurdish Peace Process Reaches Its First Legislative Test
Speaking at an Eid al-Adha gathering in Van on 28 May, Pervin Buldan, a lawmaker for the DEM Party, Turkey’s main legal pro-Kurdish party and a deputy speaker of parliament,…
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Bahceli Calls for Ocalan Coordinator Role as Turkey’s PKK Endgame Takes Institutional Shape
Devlet Bahceli, the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) leader whose political intervention in late 2024 set the current peace process in motion, has put forward what amounts to the most concrete…
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