I first came to Kurdistan in late July of 2014. My first month was colored with constant conversations and anxiety surrounding ISIS and it’s seizure of Kurdish land. My television was fixed on news stations as my colleagues and I watched more and
It is not a mystery that all eyes are going to be turned on the residents of Kurdish-controlled areas in Northern Iraq as they are preparing to vote on 25 September in a referendum on their preference for the future of the Kurdistan Region of
The Lebanese branch of the Kurdistan Democratic Party has organized a solidarity gathering in Martyr’s square for the “Independence referendum” that will be held in Kurdish controlled parts of Northern Iraq (Iraqi Kurdistan) on the 25th of this September. (17/9/2017)
The denouement of the Turkish referendum melodrama, which has seen the ruling party’s proposal to change the country’s political system from parliamentary to presidential approved by a marginal percentage, marks the death of the Kemalist republic founded in 1923 and the birth of
Voters went to the polls April 16 to vote on a new draft constitution that would officially increase the powers of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The opponents of the bill including the Republican People’s Party (CHP), the main opposition party in Turkey’s