The Kurds

Kurdistan Has Emerged from Its Latest Elections More Divided Than Ever

Yerevan Saeed, New Lines Institute, February 2025

The path to transforming Iraqi Kurdistan’s economic diversity and potential

As part of its efforts to strengthen the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) has endeavored to establish a diversified economy through Vision 2020 and Vision 2030.

Intelligence Briefing. The Gangs of Northern Syria: Life Under Turkey’s Proxies

As many as 1.4 million of
the 16.5 million Syrians who
continue to live in the country
after 10 years of conflict reside
in areas under the control of
the Syrian National Army (SNA),
a proxy force established by
Turkey.

Policy Forum: Kurds Against the Iranian Regime

Activists and experts discuss what Washington can do to curb Tehran’s violent campaigns against Kurdish populations at home and next door in Iraq.

The Growing Political Role of the Kurdish Diaspora

Kurdish diaspora communities in Europe are estimated to be between two to three million people, more than half of whom are in Germany, according to Kurdish institutions.

Erdogan’s Secret Prisons in Syria

Nadia Hassan Suleiman remembers well the day she was arrested.

The Daughters of Kobani: A Story of Rebellion, Courage and Justice by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

There is a clip that occasionally resurfaces on social media of a young Kurdish sniper. The unidentified woman is looking through her rifle’s scope and takes a shot, only to have a round fired from the Islamic State impact inches from her head.

On the Kurdish Front Lines, It’s an Endless Struggle

The fight against the Islamic State may be ‘low-level,’ but it’s also constant

Is There Any Solution to Turkey’s Kurdish Problem?

While a solution to the Kurdish problem will likely continue to remain out of reach, Turkey has no alternative but to muddle through, alternating between cautious reform and clampdown.

Why Iraqi Kurds are fleeing their peaceful homeland

For many Americans and Europeans, news that thousands of Iraqi Kurds are among the refugees stranded on the border between Belarus and Poland might have come as a surprise.

A Report by Kurdistan Human Rights Network on Secret Detention Centres of Iranian Security Institutions in Kermanshah, Sanandaj, Orumiyeh

The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has prepared this report to draw the attention of international human rights organisations to the situation of secret detention centres of two security agencies, the Ministry of Intelligence and the Intelligence Organisation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), in Iranian Kurdistan.

How viable is the Kurds’ autonomous rule in northeastern Syria?

MISSOURI, USA: Ilham Ahmed, head of the political wing of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), has been lobbying Moscow and Washington to support Kurdish representation in the long-stalled, UN-backed Syrian peace process.

Turkish Imperialism: When Will Turkey Annex Northern Syria?

In its quest to fulfill its expansionist ambitions, Turkey is pursuing a systematic Turkification policy in areas under its control in northern Syria.

Turkish Imperialism: Whither the Syrian Kurds?

In line with a longstanding betrayal of the Kurds to their local oppressors, the US used the Syrian Kurds for fighting ISIS (and the Assad regime) only to betray them once their usefulness had been exhausted. Whither the Syrian Kurds?, by Spyridon Plakoudas and Wojciech Michnik, Middle East Quarterly, Fall 2021