Kurdistan
An Annan Plan for Turkey’s Kurds
By Marcus Templar Greek Cypriots, the majority population on the Island of Cyprus, overwhelmingly rejected a plan for reunification with the island’s small Turkish minority developed by United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan in a referendum on April 24, 2004. The majority Greeks regarded the solution offered by Annan as impractical and unfair, while the […]
Stop the Massacre of Kurdish Civilians in Syria
Appeal to the International Community to protect multi-ethnic communities in Syria: We, the Kurdish political parties, organisations and community members in exile call upon the international community to protect the civilians of Northern Syria – Kurds, Arabs and other ethnicities and religious groups such as Assyrians, Armenians, Christians – against the brutal ethnic cleansing taking […]
Turkey’s Kurdish Arithmetic
By Ilan Berman, Contributor Of all the variables that dictate the fate of nations, demography might just be the most decisive. The pace of populations—how they grow, change and decline—helps shape a country’s political outlook, its internal makeup, and its place in the world. It can also provide useful insights into a nation’s foreign policy […]
Η συριακή κρίση απειλεί τα “εύθραυστα” σύνορα της Μέσης Ανατολής
Στον κίνδυνο μεταβολής των συνόρων στη Μέση Ανατολή εξαιτίας της συριακής κρίσης και σε ενδεχόμενη ‘βαλκανιοποίηση’ της Συρίας αναφέρεται άρθρο της Nicole Gaouette (Ουάσιγκτον) στο BLOOMBERG με τίτλο «Syrian Turmoil Threatens ‘Fragile’ Middle East Borders».