List of Kurdistan articles
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Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan stands on stage after a speech at the end of a ceremony marking the anniversary of the death of Jelaleddin Mevlana Rumi, Sufi mystic, poet and founder of the sufism, on December 13,2013, at Ulker Sports Arena in Istanbul. The dervishes are adepts of Sufism, a mystical form of Islam that preaches tolerance and a search for understanding. Those who whirl, like planets around the sun, turn dance into a form of prayer. Some say the whirling dervishes belong more to the central, conservative city of Konya, where the father of Sufism, Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi, lived in the 13th century, than to the cosmopolitan modern city. AFP PHOTO / OZAN KOSE (Photo credit should read OZAN KOSE/AFP/Getty Images) The Sultan of Swing’s Dangerous Gamble
It appears Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is taking his country to war in order to win an election. It could be the biggest miscalculation of his political career.
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Turkish tanks man a position facing the Islamic State (IS) fighters' new position, 10km west of the Syrian city of Ain al-Arab (Kobane) near the Syrian border at the southeastern town of Suruc in the Sanliurfa province on October 2, 2014. Islamic State fighters were at the gates on October 2 of a key Kurdish town on the Syrian border with Turkey, whose parliament was set to vote on authorising military intervention against the jihadists. Kurdish militiamen backed by US-led air strikes were locked in fierce fighting to prevent the besieged border town of Kobane from falling to IS group fighters. AFP PHOTO/BULENT KILIC (Photo credit should read BULENT KILIC/AFP/Getty Images) Has the U.S. Just Sold Out the Kurds?
The most effective ground force against the Islamic State could become collateral damage under a U.S. deal with Turkey.
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Turkish army tanks parade in front of a giant banner with a portrait of the founder of modern Turkey Mustafa Kemal Ataturk during Victory Day celebrations in Ankara on August 30, 2008. AFP PHOTO / ADEM ALTAN (Photo credit should read ADEM ALTAN/AFP/Getty Images) Turkey Enters the War Against the Islamic State
After months of indecision, Ankara has entered the fight in Syria. Can it turn the tide?
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Pesh Destroying Homes for Kurdistan
Diplomats and human rights workers claim that America’s closest ally in Iraq is engaged in a campaign of ethnic cleansing designed to push Arabs out of the future Kurdish state.
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GettyImages-478013198crop Mapped: The Islamic State’s Territorial Losses and the Beginning of a United Kurdistan
Kurdish forces, with the backing of U.S. airpower, have inflicted a series of defeats on Islamic State troops.
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GettyImages-458218958crop American Killed Fighting Islamic State Alongside Kurdish Militia Group
Keith Broomfield's death marks the first American casualty in the free fight against the Islamic State.
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Supporters of People's Democratic Party (HDP) take part in a protest in Ankara on May 18, 2015 against the goverment and the twin attacks in southern Turkey. Twin bomb attacks hit the regional headquarters of Turkey's main pro-Kurdish party in two cities, injuring more than half a dozen people and escalating tensions ahead of June 7 legislative elections. AFP PHOTO / ADEM ALTAN (Photo credit should read ADEM ALTAN/AFP/Getty Images) Erdogan’s Kurdish Chickens Are Coming Home to Roost
The president's peace process with his country's Kurds could be the very thing that prevents him from coming out on top in the coming elections.
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Demirtas cropped The Turkish Opposition’s Secret Weapon
A charismatic new leader could help the Kurds to a breakthrough in Turkey’s parliamentary election. He's already giving headaches to President Erdogan.
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IRAQ-UNREST How to Retake Mosul From the Islamic State
Does the Iraqi Army have the right stuff to win the battle everyone knows is coming -- and handle the messy aftermath?
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464107232 cropped Turkey’s Tomb Raiders
Turkey's mission to save an ancient tomb in Syria sheds unexpected light on Ankara's complicated regional entanglements.
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462656250 cropped Want to Hurt the Islamic State? Here’s How.
The Kurds have an army, and they’re willing to fight and die. So why isn't the United States sending them the weapons they need?
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TURKEY-KURDS-UNREST Trench Warfare in Turkey
In the country’s Kurdish southeast, a quiet war is raging between local residents and the state.
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462274910crop With Islamic State Routed From Kobani, Kurds Eye Mosul
A senior Kurdish official says the Islamic State's defeat in Kobani should smash its aura of invincibility.
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461230342 cropped The World’s Next Country
The Kurds are on the verge of getting a homeland of their own. If they do, the Middle East will never be the same.
