A weekly brief of events that occurred in the Kurdish regions of Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey. Click for interactive map. Iran Iranian authorities …
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Washington Kurdish Institute August 21, 2020 Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has long made his disdain for international law clear, through both his persecution …
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Iran The Iranian regime continued its crackdown on Kurdish political activity last week. An appeals court in Saqqez confirmed an activist named Najir Majedian’s …
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Washington Kurdish Institute By: Yousif Ismael August 17, 2020 President Trump’s personal decision to withdraw from Syria last October worsened the situation in the …
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Iran The Iranian regime continued its ongoing crackdown on Kurdish political activity last week and arrested at least a dozen more Kurdish activists. In …
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Why was there a delay in the emergence of the Kurdish national movement? Well, I think one century of armed struggle led to Kurds …
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Why was there a delay in the emergence of the Kurdish national movement? “There was a Kurdish national national movement, but there were so …
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“Anyone who’s walked through Washington DC and through the embassies will have noticed that a slew of nations have been celebrating their Centenary of …
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Washington Kurdish Institute By: Matthiew Margala August 8,2020 “I know many Kurdish artists. They had to hide their identity as Kurds. And many people …
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Washington Kurdish Institute August 10, 2020 marks a century of the Treaty of Sèvres between the remnants of the Ottoman empire and the allied …