Kurds
US Betting on the Wrong Horse in Syria
| Foreign PolicyUS support of Kurdish offshoot group in Syria could backfire in the medium-term.
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Foreign PolicyTurkey Worries about the Fragility of the Ethnic Balance in Northern Syria
By Murat YeşiltaşMurat Yeşiltaş stressed that Turkey is mainly concerned about the fragility of the ethnic balance in Northern Syria and does not want to see any possible armed conflict between Kurds and Arabs.
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Domestic PolicyNewroz and the New Paradigm
By Hatem EteGiven the projected direction and strategic vision of the message and notions used in the statement, this message represents a mental transformation and a paradigm change.
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Domestic PolicyThe New Message’ and the Solution Process
By Taha ÖzhanThe message of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Öcalan promises, with its most general terms, a quite different world from the 30-year-old clichés.
Bu Konuda Daha Fazla
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What do the Syrian Kurds Want?
By Taha ÖzhanIf the Kurds want to realize their demand they must first become one of the main actors of the resistance movement to depose al-Assad in a way that does not leave room for doubt.
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Turkey’s Approach to Syria’s Kurds Ignores Potential Gains
By Galip DalayTurkey should recognize that the neighbors with which it will likely share its longest borders are not Syria and Iraq, but Kurdish political entities.
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The Kurds and the Syrian Revolts
By Taha ÖzhanThe PKK, which missed by a long shot the transformation both Turkey and the Middle East undertook as evidence by the more blood it continues to shed, will continue to be a burden to the Kurds.
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How Great is the Distance Between Turks and Kurds?
By Talip KüçükcanThe survey “Turkey's Perception of the Kurdish Issue,” jointly conducted by the Foundation for Political, Economic and Social Research (SETA) and PollMark, has yielded quite important sociological findings on the relations between Turks and Kurds.
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How Great is the Distance Between Turks and Kurds?
By Talip KüçükcanThe survey “Turkey's Perception of the Kurdish Issue,” jointly conducted by the Foundation for Political, Economic and Social Research (SETA) and PollMark, has yielded quite important sociological findings on the relations between Turks and Kurds. The research was undertaken to reveal the content and the grounds of the social relations between the two communities, the current phase of social integration and whether terror and violence have caused lack of trust and confidence between these social groups. The survey shows that the will and desire for coexistence transcends ideological, ethnic and political identities. The research points out that despite the lengthy period of violence and terror, political polemics and crises, there is still no environment of distrust or enmity between Turks and Kurds and that the country is not threatened by the danger of ethnic violence over Turkishness or Kurdishness.