Category talk:Kurdistan

Syria

 * Aleppo's Kurds: Living Under Siege, Al Akhbar, January 12, 2014
 * Interesting article touching on many issues describing Kurdish life in rural Ifrin between the Turkish border and an ISIS siege. --CE (talk) 21:25, 12 January 2014 (UTC)


 * The Syrian Kurds Are Winning!, Jonathan Steele, New York Review of Books, November 4, 2015
 * Pretty detailed Rojava 101. --CE (talk) 11:14, 15 December 2015 (UTC)

Turkey

 * Kurdish neighbourhoods take up arms as they declare autonomy in Turkey, Middle East Eye, August 27, 2015


 * --CE (talk) 12:38, 28 August 2015 (UTC)

"[...] Sur, which means “fortress walls” in Turkish, takes its name from the centuries-old walls encircling the old city of Diyarbakir, inscribed on the UNESCO’s World Heritage List earlier this year. The district’s population numbers some 125,000 people, half of them residents of the ancient walled city, which is dotted by numerous monuments attesting to Diyarbakir’s millennia-old history.
 * Turkish Kurds flee 'self-rule' neighborhoods, Middle East Eye, December 14, 2015

The district has been in chaos for weeks. Urban unrest across the mainly Kurdish southeast has simmered since August, when PKK-linked groups moved to take control of certain residential areas and declared what they call “self-rule.” The authorities responded with security crackdowns. To stop the security forces from entering the neighborhoods, the Patriotic Revolutionary Youth Movement (YDG-H), the PKK’s urban youth branch, dug trenches and erected barricades. The curfews followed, and young people armed with light weapons clashed with the police. [...]

The brief lifting of the curfew revealed scenes out of a war zone. Though the number of fleeing people was smaller, many compared the exodus with last year’s Kurdish flight from the Syrian city of Kobani to Turkey, sparked by the Islamic State’s offensive. Some residents claimed police had urged them to evacuate their homes as soon as possible. [...]"

--CE (talk) 17:40, 15 December 2015 (UTC)


 * Turkey: Kurds Resist State-imposed Curfews, Joris Leverink, Syria360, December 15, 2015

"[...] During an earlier curfew several weeks ago, special forces had left a message on the wall of one of the neighborhood’s houses: “You will see the power of the Turk”, signed, the Esedullah Tim. There has been much ado about this special ops team, whose name translates to “lions of god”. In every town under curfew, the same graffiti appears on walls, and locals speak of bearded men shouting insults, and using extreme violence against the population.

So far, their existence remains shrouded in mystery, with the government refusing to comment. It is clear, however, that this is a special unit placed above the law, whose sole purpose is to terrorize the population. [...]"

--CE (talk) 11:09, 16 December 2015 (UTC)