Commentaries

Turkish Racism Against Kurds: Colonial Violence, Racist Slurs and Mob Attacks |Güllistan Yarkın, Independent Researcher, Istanbul |Executive Summary: This commentary focuses on how the Turkish state facilitates military urbanism as revanchist and racialized mechanisms of collective punishment to suppress grassroots… Continue reading →

Turkey’s Military Urbanism and Neocolonial Architecture in Kurdish Cities |by Diren Taş, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich – Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology |Executive Summary: This commentary focuses on how the Turkish state facilitates military urbanism as revanchist and… Continue reading →

Environmental Racism and Resistance in Kurdistan |by Pınar Dinç, Lund University |Executive Summary: Delisting the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) as a terrorist organization would be a bold, imaginative move by Turkey, the European Union (EU), and the United States (US),… Continue reading →

Delisting the PKK as a terrorist organization |by Prof. Michael Gunter |Executive Summary: Delisting the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) as a terrorist organization would be a bold, imaginative move by Turkey, the European Union (EU), and the United States (US),… Continue reading →

Kurdish Allies and Kurdish Enemies: Turkey’s New War Against The PKK |By Kamal Chomani and Dastan Jasim |Executive Summary: This paper focuses on the post-2015 Turkish warfare against the Kurdistan Workers’ Party PKK in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, and… Continue reading →