Posts Tagged: Turkey Kurds
Turkey Ousts Elected Officials in New Offensive Against Kurds
Turkey on Monday replaced Kurdish mayors with state officials in three cities and detained more than 400 people for suspected militant links, the Interior Ministry...
Turkey’s Syrian Quagmire
At first glance, the plan looked viable: using the “Arab Spring” as a legitimate pretext, Turkey would convince Syrian President Bashar Assad to resign; the...
Saving NATO From Turkey
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, known as NATO, faces an existential problem. No -- it's not about getting member states to fulfill agreed-upon spending on defense projects, nor finding a...
The Betrayal of Syria’s Kurds
JNS.org - From Moscow to Washington, we are told that the principle enemy in the Middle East is the Islamic State (IS) terrorist organization. At the same...
Why We Should Support a Unified Kurdistan
Is a united and independent Kurdistan a prospect we should welcome, or a dangerous idea that would create far more problems in the Middle East...
A Modest Proposal for a New ‘Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions’ Campaign
There is a country in the Middle East which makes a great play of being a democracy and about espousing Western ideals regarding human rights,...
The Kurds: The Middle East’s Wild Card?
As the battle for Damascus rages, the Kurds are positioning themselves to exploit the growing security and power vacuum in Syria, to the...
