Posted on September 9, 2017. Tags: Abdüllah Öcalan, Ali Sistani, Iran, Iraq, ISIS, KRG, Kurdish, kurdistan, Kurds, Middle Eastern Christians, Muqtada Sadr, PKK, secession, Shi'a, Shiism, Shiite, Turkey
An alliance between Kurdish leftists and Iraqi militias shows why it’s dangerous to overestimate Iran’s role in the so-called “Shia crescent.” In light of the breakdown of state structures in Iraq and Syria, it’s tempting to try to build narratives that portray entire ethnic groups or sects as pawns of great powers like Iran, as […]
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Posted in Conflict, Iran, Iraq, Islam, Middle East, Religion, Security Issues, Syria, Terrorism, Turkey, World
Posted on March 24, 2018. Tags: Ankara, Erdogan, Free Syrian Army, Kurdish, kurdistan, Kurds, NATO, President Trump, Syria, Trump, Turkey
By U.S. Department of State from United States [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons Authors: Dr Simon A. Waldman is a Mercator-IPC fellow at the Istanbul Policy Center and a visiting research fellow at King’s College London. Engin Onuk is an intern at the İstanbul Policy Center and a masters student in the International Relations Department in İstanbul […]
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Posted in Middle East, Syria, Turkey, World
Posted on July 2, 2016. Tags: Art, Censorship, Control, Corruption, Creatives, Culture, Democracy, Erdogan, Expression, FIlm, Free Speech, Freedom, Human Rights, Istanbul, Kurds, Music, Politics, Press, Turkey
Turkey has a history of strict censorship which still remains a prominent issue in modern day Istanbul and shows no signs of stopping anytime soon. Media censorship is at an all time high with 140 press censorship cases already known in the country, newspapers have been shut down and journalists imprisoned. Now censorship is spreading to the […]
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Posted in Culture, Europe, Middle East, Political Security, Turkey, World