If you glance at the English newspapers on any given day, you will hardly come across the word martyr. If you do the same with the Turkish ones, the word will leap out at you and sometimes in bold letters. Turkish soldiers are dying in Syria, Libya and Kurdistan....
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Will Trump Help Kurds Burn the Treaty of Lausanne?
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...
Two Presidents, an Oscar and Kurds
(Or an Open Letter to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad) Dear Mr. Ahmadinejad: You recently made news in America with your open letter to...
A Judge, a Diplomat, Holocaust and Kurds
American judges are under a glaring spotlight. They nullified President Trump’s executive order barring citizens of seven...
When Saddam Played the CIA Like a Drum
We don’t normally think of American novelist Ernest Hemingway and former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein in the same breath. But...
Can Murder Lurk Behind Poetry?
December 25, 2016 Is shooting an unarmed man courageous? Is shooting him in the back manful? That’s what one Turkish man did,...
Fidel Castro: A Role Model for the Kurds?
Two Kurdish organizations have lavishly praised Fidel Castro, the longtime Cuban leader who died recently. The Peoples...
A Memo to President-Elect Trump
November 17, 2016 You and the Kurds have a common foe. In Washington lingo, that is enough for both of us to become friends, and...