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Supporters of Istanbul metropolitan mayor Ekrem Imamoglu hold a poster of him as they demonstrate outside Istanbul townhall against his detention over a corruption probe in Istanbul on March 19, 2025.

Analysis

قبضة أردوغان الدائمة على تركيا مضمونة باعتقال رئيس بلدية إسطنبول

Amberin Zaman

Reporting on geopolitics, minorities, human rights, culture

People ride on a motorcycle as thick smoke rises from an oil extracting facility targeted by Turkish shelling near Syria's northeastern border with Turkey in the Qahtaniyah countryside in the far northeast corner of Hasakeh province on Oct. 25, 2024.

قوات سوريا الديمقراطية تقول إن الغارة التركية قتلت 9 أشخاص بينما تدرس أنقرة السلام مع حزب العمال الكردستاني

Amberin Zaman

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US President Donald Trump (L) and Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (R) pose for the family photo at the NATO summit at the Grove hotel in Watford, northeast of London on Dec. 4, 2019.

أردوغان يبحث الحرب بين روسيا وأوكرانيا وسوريا في أول اتصال رسمي مع ترامب

Amberin Zaman

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Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan gestures as he addresses a speech during the Justice and Development Party (AKP), as part of the 8th Ordinary Grand Congress at the Ankara Arena in Ankara, on Feb. 23, 2025.

أردوغان يقول إنه مستعد للقاء الأكراد الذين يتوسطون في السلام مع حزب العمال الكردستاني

Amberin Zaman

Reporting on geopolitics, minorities, human rights, culture

Syrian interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa (R) and SDF leader Mazloum Kobane sign an agreement in Damascus on March 10, 2025.

Analysis

أكراد سوريا يحققون فوزا كبيرا بعد أن صافح الشرع كوباني لإنقاذ نفسه

Amberin Zaman

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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (C) meets with Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (R) in Tehran, on July 19, 2022.

Analysis

إيران تشعر بالقلق من مبادرات تركيا تجاه الأكراد ودورها المتزايد في سوريا والعراق

Amberin Zaman

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Kurdish men holds up a flag with a picture of the jailed PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan during Newroz celebrations, on March 21, 2015, in Diyarbakir, Turkey

زعيم حزب العمال الكردستاني أوجلان يستعد لإجراء دعوة تاريخية للسلام بين تركيا والأكراد

Amberin Zaman

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Armenia's Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan arrives for a plenary session at the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Action Summit, at the Grand Palais, in Paris, on Feb. 11, 2025.

أرمينيا تنضم إلى التحالف الدولي بقيادة الولايات المتحدة ضد تنظيم الدولة الإسلامية

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Druze residents of the village of Majdal Shams in the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights wave a Syrian flag as they take part in a rally on Feb. 14, 2025, to protest against the 1981 annexation law of the strategic plateau which Israel captured from Syria during the 1967 Arab-Israeli war.

Analysis

إسرائيل تستغل الانقسامات مع دعوة القادة الجدد في سوريا إلى الحوار الوطني دون مشاركة الأكراد

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Ocalan

أكراد العراق يقدمون يد العون لزعيم حزب العمال الكردستاني في مفاوضات السلام مع تركيا

Amberin Zaman

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Kurds hold the edges of large banners depicting Kurdistan Worker's Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Ocalan during a demonstration of several thousand people from all around Europe to mark the 26th anniversary of the arrest of PKK founder and to demand his liberation in Strasbourg, Eastern France, on Feb. 15, 2025.

اعتقالات جماعية في تركيا مع سعي أردوغان إلى التقرب من الأكراد وإقصاء منافسيه

Amberin Zaman

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A fighter of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) aims a machine gun while lying prone during a joint military exercise with forces of the US-led "Combined Joint Task Force-Operation Inherent Resolve" coalition against the Islamic State (IS) group in the countryside of the town of al-Malikiya (Derik in Kurdish) in Syria's northeastern Hasakah province on Sept. 7, 2022.

تركيا تصعد جهودها لاستبدال الأكراد كقوة رئيسية ضد داعش في سوريا

Amberin Zaman

Reporting on geopolitics, minorities, human rights, culture