Presented in a panel discussion of a side event at the 36th UN Human Rights Council in Geneva: “The Destruction of Mosul” […] Read more ›
There are 15 million Kurds, representing nearly 18 percent of the Turkish population. Like their Turkish counterparts they are largely Sunnis, but their cultural distinction trumps their religious beliefs. They are fighting to preserve their ethnic identity, fearing that otherwise their culture and language would fade away and die […] Read more ›
The DEBKA website, close to Israeli military intelligence, knows well all the behind the curtain details of regional politics […] Read more ›
The Kurds are one of the world’s largest peoples without a state, making up sizable minorities in Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey […] Read more ›
There are many the so-called “stateless nations” or better to say “stateless cultures” or “stateless ethnolinguistic groups” in the world with already highly developed mutual sense of common identity who do not have as a consequence of historical accidents their own states to represent them on the arena of global politics and international relations […] Read more ›
In Iraq too, the three large populations do not reside “each in their own region,” but are, for the most part, intermingled […] Read more ›
