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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Dying Kurdish Parliamentarian’s Last Wish
Somewhere in the bowels of a miserable Turkish prison, a duly elected Kurdish member of the Turkish parliament lies dying. She...
The Peshmerga and His Son
When International Mathematical Union awarded its 2018 Fields Medal (the Nobel Prize for Mathematicians) to one of our own,...
Glowing Bush Tributes Ignore Dark Genocide
Your average Iraqi is 19 years old—so many were not even born when two devastating earthquakes ravaged their country in 1991....
Michelle Obama and the First Lady of Iraq
Michelle Obama’s just published autobiography, Becoming, is selling like hot cakes—reportedly 1,4 million copies in the first...
World Order Without Kurdistan, Oops America!
Fortune magazine annually prints the names of 500 American companies that are envied around the world. If there were a magazine...
Is Erdogan Like Malcolm X?
Something strange happened in New York last month. President Erdogan of Turkey met with two daughters of Malcom X, Ilyasha and...
Two Other Khashoggis of the Middle East
Both men grew up in the same country, Turkey. One was a Turk, the other a Kurd. The Turk wanted to become a journalist. The Kurd...