Algemeiner: A Kurdish Campaign to Boycott Turkey

It is a story that strikes a chord with anyone familiar with the struggle for civil rights in the American South. Jwnaid Murad, a businessman in Iraqi Kurdistan, has decided that he will no longer sell Turkish products in his supermarket in the town of New Erbil in response to growing calls among Iraqi Kurds for a boycott of Turkey because of Ankara’s onslaught against fellow Kurds in...


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Al-Monitor: Is the PKK worried by the YPG’s growing popularity?

The past month has seen mind-boggling developments in northern Syria involving the Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) and its military wing, the People's Protection Units (YPG). For Ankara, the most glaring unintended consequence of the now static Operation Peace Spring is the newfound legitimacy of the YPG in Western public opinion. The YPG is an offshoot of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), which Turkey, the United States and many...


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A determined people

Abandoned by the West, the Kurds of Syria were forced to cede to invaders' guns and tanks....


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