single category archive
Like many Kurds who dabble in politics, I was admittedly rattled upon hearing the news of Qasem Soleimani’s assassination in Baghdad. There is no other word for it, the man cast a large shadow over Kurdistan. Will his elimination mean more sunlight or greater darkness...
Victory can sometimes spring from the jaws of apparent defeat. That happened last month in Turkey when a pro-government group...
“For a state to endure, it needs more than commerce and security. It needs civic fraternity.” --Aristotle Turks and Kurds have...
When two Turkish cabinet members were barred from campaigning for the dictatorship of Turkish President Erdogan in Germany, the...
In his book, The Art of the Deal, Donald Trump shares with his readers a typical hour-by-hour day of phone calls and meetings...
(Or an Open Letter to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad) Dear Mr. Ahmadinejad: You recently made news in America with your open letter to...
American judges are under a glaring spotlight. They nullified President Trump’s executive order barring citizens of seven...
We don’t normally think of American novelist Ernest Hemingway and former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein in the same breath. But...