New York Times: I Am Running for President in Turkey. From My Prison Cell.
EDIRNE, Turkey — Turkey will vote in presidential and parliamentary elections on June 24. I am one...
[read full article]The Washington Post: In Turkey’s watershed election, it’s the Kurds who could tip the balance
Amberin Zaman, a former Turkey correspondent for the Economist, is a columnist for Al Monitor and independent...
[read full article]New York Review of Books: How My Father’s Ideas Helped the Kurds Create a New Democracy
One mild spring day in Vermont in April 2004, my father, the historian and philosopher Murray Bookchin,...
[read full article]Washington Kurdish Institute: The Turkish nation-state and The Kurdish question
The Turkish War of Independence, which lasted from 1919 to 1922, left the new generation an inheritance...
[read full article]Haaretz: Enlightened Islam Exists, and Bernard-Henri Lévy Claims to Have Found It
The Kurds are a developed version of Islam that can become the second democracy in the region,...
[read full article]The Jerusalem Post: Terra Incognita: An International Investigation for Afrin
To understand the complex dynamics of what happened in Afrin we have to understand the larger picture...
[read full article]Rudaw: Iran’s Kurdish Opposition reacts to latest US moves against Tehran
With US President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw from the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, Tehran has launched...
[read full article]The Reykjavik Grapevine: Mother Of Icelander Fallen In Syria Issues Open Letter To UK & Iceland Governments
Haukur Hilmarsson’s mother, Eva Hauksdóttir, has issued an open letter to the governments of Iceland and the...
[read full article]Foreign Policy: The Making of a Kurdish Mandela
The Turkish government has just called snap presidential and parliamentary elections, which will be held on June...
[read full article]The Black Kitten of Halabja
We stand outside with a glass of Sauvignon blanc, a few hundred meters away from the Rijksmuseum...
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