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SDF head Kobane addresses Dahuk conference: significance for Kurdish unity, Syria integration, Turkey

Al-Monitor’s chief correspondent, Amberin Zaman, joins host Adam Lucente for a dispatch from the Middle East Peace & Security Forum in the Iraqi Kurdistan city of Dahuk. Listen as they discuss what Syrian Democratic Forces commander Mazlum Kobane’s participation at the forum means for Kurdish unity amid negotiations with the new government in Syria, Turkey’s view towards its dialogue with Kurdish groups, and how Iraqi Kurdish parties may choose to exercise their leverage in deliberations over a new prime minister.