Arabs Win 60% of Hasakah’s Ten Seats as PYD Boycott Reshapes Kurdish Vote
Results from Syria’s parliamentary elections in Hasakah province and Kobani have confirmed our reporting from last week. In Hasakah, of…
Turkey’s CHP Crisis Is About The State Erdogan Wants To Leave Behind
The court intervention against Turkey’s main opposition party, the CHP, should not be read only as a legal dispute over…
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…
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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 network. The channel began broadcasting on 15 May, Kurdish Language…
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Trump Finds His Scapegoat for a Failed Iran Strategy: the Kurds
The US President Donald Trump accused “the Kurds” of diverting weapons he says were intended for Iranian anti-government protesters, claiming Washington had sent guns and ammunition through Kurdish intermediaries for…
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Syria’s Kurds: Peripheral to the Centre, Central to the Periphery
An earlier National Context report showed how the demographic map of northern Syria has foreclosed the more ambitious versions of the Kurdish national project. What that report left open is…
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Pentagon Zeroes Out Peshmerga Funding as Lebanon and Jordan Enter the Picture
The Pentagon’s budget request for next year proposes to end U.S. training and weapons support for the Kurdistan Regional Government’s Ministry of Peshmerga Affairs entirely. The line is worth $61…
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Iraq’s CEO Candidate
Iraq’s Coordination Framework on April 27 named businessman Ali al-Zaidi as prime minister-designate, and President Nizar Amede tasked him the same day with forming a government within the constitutional thirty-day window. Zaidi,…
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Why Turkey’s PKK Peace Process Has Stalled
More than a year after Abdullah Ocalan called for disarmament from his prison on Imrali island, Turkey’s peace process with the PKK has reached its first genuinely hard question: which…
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Courts, Coercion and Control: Why SDF-Damascus Integration Is Hitting Its Real Test
On the latest developments in the SDF-Damascus integration process, a clearer disagreement is emerging over the future of the judicial system in the parts of Hasakah province that remain under…
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