On October 6, the presidents of America and Turkey spoke by phone. There is no transcript of what was said, but the White House issued a press release announcing the decision of Turkey’s president to attack northern Syria, and that of the United States to withdraw from it. Kurds live in northern Syria, which we… Continue reading
By KANI XULAM 6/1/2014 “If you can’t explain it to a six-year-old, you don’t understand it yourself,” said Albert Einstein once famously. It is what crosses my mind after Janet Biehl asks me to review a German book she has translated into English, Democratic Autonomy in North Kurdistan. I hope I understand it well enough… Continue reading