What Does Turkey Want From Iraqi Kurdistan?
As Kurds are used to it, they face internal political divisions while their territories are once more wedged between regional and world powers, not least their powerful Turkish neighbor.
As Kurds are used to it, they face internal political divisions while their territories are once more wedged between regional and world powers, not least their powerful Turkish neighbor.
Arash Azizi is a Ph.D. candidate in history at New York University where he researches the transnational links that tied Iran and the Arab world during the Cold War. Ha is the author of The Shadow Commander: Soleimani, the US, and Iran's Global Ambitions. He tweets @arash_tehran
Farhang Faraydoon Namdar is a researcher and journalist covering the Middle East, he was a former Editor in Chief of Birst Newspaper. He has translated books and articles including Francis Fukuyama’s State-Building: Governance and World Order in the 21st Century into Kurdish. Currently, he is a researcher at Gorran Movement/Iraq. He tweets @FarhangNamdar.
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