Tension is running high between Greece and Turkey. The cause? Turkish Chief of the General Staff Gen. Hulusi Akar paid a visit to Imia, a pair of two small, uninhabited Greek islets in the Aegean Sea, on January 29. He was accompanied by
As Kurds are celebrating Newroz, the Kurdish New Year, which coincides with the arrival of Spring, a message of hope and joy, “ The New Eastern Politics Network” conducted through Christiane Waked an interview with Kurdish musician refugees in Lebanon to talk about
Armenia—Russia’s closest ally in the South Caucasus—appears intent on revitalizing its partnership with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). This agenda turned explicit on February 27–28, when Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan paid a visit to Brussels. Besides holding several important meetings with high-level
Hayat Al-Balbisi had always wanted to be a teacher. But her father was dead, her mother paralyzed and sick at home, her sister blind, leaving the family with no supporter. So Hayat, a student at the Teachers College in Jerusalem, decided to search
Dilar Dirik interviewed by George Souvlis George Souvlis: By way of introduction, could you explain what personal experiences strongly influenced you, politically and academically? Dilar Dirik: As a Kurd, you can never run from your identity, because your identity is essentially political and
The Turkmen, Assyrians, Yazidis, Shabak, and other minorities are considered to be among the original Iraqi societies, as evidenced by the various civilizations of Iraq for thousands of years, as they lived, built, and constructed this area of the land between the two
During the morning of Friday 3 March, clashes broke out between the PKK (Kurdistan Workers’ Party)-linked Sinjar Resistance Units (YBŞ) and the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP)-linked Rojava Peshmerga units consisting of Syrian Kurds, while the latter made an attempt to enter the town
Amidst intensifying tensions with Russia (see EDM, February 6, 14), Belarus’s relations with another erstwhile ally, Armenia, are also deteriorating. Even though, Armenia and Belarus are both members of the Russia-led Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) military alliance, their bilateral relationship is
From August 2009 to December 2016 DVV International and its local partners conducted a Turkish-Armenian dialogue project with 3 phases: Learning to Listen from August 2009 – February 2011; Speaking to One Another from June 2011 – February 2013 and Acting Together from
CALL FOR PAPERS — GENDER IN REVOLUTION: Women and men experiencing revolutionary change 1917-2017 Conference organised by Women in War (Paris) in partnership with the Democratic Development Centre (Kyiv) and Southern Ukrainian National Pedagogical University (Odessa) 6-8 October 2017 ° Odessa, Ukraine After