What are the drivers behind violent attacks against minorities in Turkey?
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Turkey is threatening to send 3.6 million refugees back to the Syrian territory it just invaded. Deporting these vulnerable people would make them the collateral damage of a chaotic, many-sided war.
By burying the Kurdish conflict, Turkey has made it that much more difficult to resolve.
Since defending northern Syria from the Islamic State, Kurdish people have established an egalitarian society where women are equal, democracy is direct and religious freedom is guaranteed.
Why did negotiations between the Turkish state and the Kurds, aimed at mitigating ethnic conflict and bringing about peace, fail in Turkey?
With President Erdoğan increasingly empowered, the ‘Kurdish question’ is at the forefront once again.
Ankara’s real target in Syria is the Kurds, but is Turkey getting bogged down on too many fronts?
Turkey is recovering from a failed coup, not a war, but it could learn from the practice of post-conflict reconstruction.
Politically unstable and bordering the world’s most violent and volatile region, Turkey is at risk of descending into civil war.
A second bomb in the Turkish capital in three weeks raises the question of who are the main players in the violent struggle.
Beleaguered president may about to receive an unequivical message from voters.
During the unrest of the 1990s, mysterious networks were said to have assassinated Kurdish fighters. Some believe they are still in operation.
Things are going from bad to worse in Turkey. Why – and where will it end?
Turkey’s political factions, hardly friends at the best of times, are more divided and mutually suspicious than ever.
Unrest has spread to Istanbul where the US consulate has been attacked.
What prompted Turkey’s punishing campaign against both Islamic State and Kurdish forces in Iraq and Syria? The explanation for this sharp reversal of policy may lie in calculations for fresh elections.
Whatever the pretext, Turkey’s latest push against the Kurds will do nobody any favours.
A suicide bombing in Turkey last week has pulled Ankara closer to the US in the fight against ISIS. It has also raised concerns about Kurds who are also being targeted by Turkish bombing raids.
After months of pressure, the coalition against IS has a new team member. But what are its real motives?
As the battle against Islamic State fighters draws in viewers across the world, there has been some attention given to the men and women resisting them in northern Syria. The Syrian part of Kurdistan…
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