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By David Phillips, Kelly Berkell
Thursday, February 11, 2016
The Case for Delisting the PKK as a Foreign Terrorist Organization
Death and destruction in Diyarbakir
Parts of Diyarbakir, the de facto capital of Turkey's Kurdish regions, have been under a Turkish army imposed curfew for two months now. Tom Stevenson reports from a destroyed city under siege.
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International New-York Times | Behlul Ozkan
FEBRUARY 3, 2016
The U.S. and the E.U. have mistakenly deemed refugees and Syria more important than Turkish democracy.
French daily LIBERATION, April 7, 2015
Jean-Marc AYRAULT, former Prime Minister, Anne HIDALGO, Mayor of Paris, Bernard KOUCHNER, former Foreign Minister, Bruno LE ROUX, President of the Socialist Group in the French National Assembly, Hubert VÉDRINE, former Foreign Minister
Cnn.com | By Peter Bergen, CNN National Security Analyst *
Whenever ISIS carries out a new atrocity, whether it's beheading a group of Egyptian Christians or enslaving Yazidi women in Iraq or burning its victims alive, the big question most people have is: Why on Earth is ISIS doing this? What could possibly be the point?
Huffingtonpost.com | Bernard-Henri Lévy (French philosopher and writer)
Erbil, the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan.
Leave Erbil and take the southern road toward Mosul.
There, in a landscape of hills green but bare, is the front line where General Barzani's Peshmerga fighters are arrayed against the the Islamic State.
Lemonde.fr | By Kendal Nezan (President of the Kurdish Institute of Paris.)
The Kurdish Institute of Paris has acted for nearly thirty-two years, in France and in Europe, as the voice of the Kurdish people. This people without a state has throughout the 20th Century been the victim of the cruellest injustices, and the Institute has provided information and documentation to journalists, researchers, students, voluntary associations and members of Parliament about the Kurdish world which seemed condemned to disappear or driven into exile because of the disinterest and neglect shown by the public authorities.