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As alliances shift to shape a new Middle East, the Kurds face a familiar danger: exclusion from the new order. This OPINION by Kamal Chomani explains why that would be a historic mistake, and what the status of the Kurds is amid these transformations.
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The Middle East Is Being Rewritten, But the Kurds Must Not Be Left Out
Kurds rally in Amed in June 2011 during Turkey’s general elections in support of the pro-Kurdish rights | Photo Credits: Kamal Chomani The Middle East is entering yet another historic turning point.…
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November 25, 2025 at 6:06 PM
As alliances shift to shape a new Middle East, the Kurds face a familiar danger: exclusion from the new order. This OPINION by Kamal Chomani explains why that would be a historic mistake, and what the status of the Kurds is amid these transformations.
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“What happened to Rojin.” After a months-long wait, a report confirmed DNA from two men and detected Rocuronium. Allegations of interference and censorship have deepened mistrust around her death. Full story by Serap Güneş
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Latest Name on Turkey’s Growing List of “Suspicious Female Deaths”: Rojin Kabaiş
Walls in Wan (Van), Turkey, days before November 25 International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women: “What happened to Rojin?” (Kurdish, left; Turkish, right) Rojin Kabaiş went…
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November 25, 2025 at 3:08 PM
“What happened to Rojin.” After a months-long wait, a report confirmed DNA from two men and detected Rocuronium. Allegations of interference and censorship have deepened mistrust around her death. Full story by Serap Güneş
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Choman Hardi joins Elif Sarican to explore why poetry can reach audiences who resist even hearing “women’s rights.” She reflects on feminist practice in Kurdistan, the ethics of witnessing trauma, and her new culture centre launching in Dec 2025. Full interview below.
November 24, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Choman Hardi joins Elif Sarican to explore why poetry can reach audiences who resist even hearing “women’s rights.” She reflects on feminist practice in Kurdistan, the ethics of witnessing trauma, and her new culture centre launching in Dec 2025. Full interview below.
In Amed, belief is limited and expectations are concrete. Residents link peace to bread, jobs, elected mayors restored, prisoners released, and safety on the streets, not slogans. Full story by Rengin Azizoğlu:
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The Peace Process for the People of Amed: Belief is Limited, Expectations are Concrete
The image is released free of copyrights under Creative Commons CC0. In Amed (Diyarbakir), peace is discussed once again, but this time the mood is fraught with caution rather than excitement.…
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November 24, 2025 at 5:58 PM
In Amed, belief is limited and expectations are concrete. Residents link peace to bread, jobs, elected mayors restored, prisoners released, and safety on the streets, not slogans. Full story by Rengin Azizoğlu:
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Iraq reserves 9 seats for minorities. Christians ≈500k people get 5 seats, while Feyli Kurds ≈800k, Yazidis ≈550k, Shabak ≈300k, and Mandaeans ≈20k each get 1. Renwar Najm's report explains how parties exploit this system and why reform is on the table.
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November 23, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Iraq reserves 9 seats for minorities. Christians ≈500k people get 5 seats, while Feyli Kurds ≈800k, Yazidis ≈550k, Shabak ≈300k, and Mandaeans ≈20k each get 1. Renwar Najm's report explains how parties exploit this system and why reform is on the table.
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Iraq’s minority quotas are under fire. Parties mobilised outside votes, helping KDP take five quota seats and three of five Christian seats. Activists call for separate registers or abolition. Full story by Renwar Najm.
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Iraq’s Quota System Silences Minorities
In Iraq’s 2025 parliamentary election, the country’s large parties have dominated the quota seats reserved for religious and ethnic minorities in the Council of Representatives. Christian activists…
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November 21, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Iraq’s minority quotas are under fire. Parties mobilised outside votes, helping KDP take five quota seats and three of five Christian seats. Activists call for separate registers or abolition. Full story by Renwar Najm.
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Parliament’s Peace Commission approved an Imrali visit to meet Abdullah Öcalan after a closed session that saw CHP walk out. AKP, MHP and DEM votes carried both majorities. Full story by Serap Gunes.
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Breaking: Turkish Parliament’s Peace Commission Approves Imrali Visit
Picture Credits: The Offical website of the Turkish Parliament Turkey’s National Solidarity, Brotherhood and Democracy Commission – set up to drive the peace process between the country’s Kurdish…
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November 21, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Parliament’s Peace Commission approved an Imrali visit to meet Abdullah Öcalan after a closed session that saw CHP walk out. AKP, MHP and DEM votes carried both majorities. Full story by Serap Gunes.
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Tehran is running out of time. Officials say the capital may fail to meet vital needs within two years, as aquifers collapse and services strain. This is not just drought. It is governance. Full story by Ammar Goli and Kawe Fatehi.
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Iran’s Water Crisis Could Turn Tehran into a Ghost City
The Khaju Bridge (Pol-e Khāju) in Isfahan, Iran, when the Zayanderud riverbed is dry | Picture Credits: Islamic Republic News Agency This article is co-authored by Ammar Goli and Kawe Fatehi Years…
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November 20, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Tehran is running out of time. Officials say the capital may fail to meet vital needs within two years, as aquifers collapse and services strain. This is not just drought. It is governance. Full story by Ammar Goli and Kawe Fatehi.
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Security first is the promise. For Ahmed al-Sharaa, absorbing armed factions and targeting IS cells may restore order, but unresolved abuses and rival power centres risk new fractures. Full story by Ferhad Hemmy.
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Al-Sharaa and the Dilemma of Combating Terrorism
Tom Barrack met with Ahmed al-Sharaa in Syria in May 2025 | Picture Credits: Tom Barrack’s X Account/Wikimedia Commons In line with the US administration’s “security first” approach laid out by US…
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November 19, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Security first is the promise. For Ahmed al-Sharaa, absorbing armed factions and targeting IS cells may restore order, but unresolved abuses and rival power centres risk new fractures. Full story by Ferhad Hemmy.
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In a full interview with Elif Sarican, analyst Elbashir Idris explains how Sudan’s conflict has become “a mini world war inside one country,” shaped by foreign arms networks, regional powers, mercenaries, and tech infrastructure. Watch on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwLT...
November 19, 2025 at 7:31 PM
In a full interview with Elif Sarican, analyst Elbashir Idris explains how Sudan’s conflict has become “a mini world war inside one country,” shaped by foreign arms networks, regional powers, mercenaries, and tech infrastructure. Watch on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwLT...
If the committee will not go to İmralı, I will,” Devlet Bahçeli said. Turkey’s most nationalist leader put his own name on a meeting with Abdullah Öcalan as parliament’s commission reconvenes and weighs an İmralı visit this week. Full Story:
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Turkish Nationalist Leader Bahçeli: I am Ready to Sit Down With Öcalan
Turkish Nationalist Leader Bahçeli: I am Ready to Sit Down With Öcalan The peace process between Turkey and Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), which began in October last year, gained new momentum today…
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November 18, 2025 at 6:44 PM
If the committee will not go to İmralı, I will,” Devlet Bahçeli said. Turkey’s most nationalist leader put his own name on a meeting with Abdullah Öcalan as parliament’s commission reconvenes and weighs an İmralı visit this week. Full Story:
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Baghdad’s Tigris is shrinking, residents now meet in the middle of the river. Activists blame Turkish dams and weak Iraqi management, as a new deal still lacks binding force. Full story by Laurent Perpigna Iban.
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In Baghdad, the Tigris is Trapped by Turkish Dams
The Tigris River in Baghdad | Picture Credits: Laurent Perpigna Iban The summer of 2025, exceptionally hot and dry, saw the Tigris level drop even further in Iraq. In Baghdad, entire stretches of the…
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November 18, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Baghdad’s Tigris is shrinking, residents now meet in the middle of the river. Activists blame Turkish dams and weak Iraqi management, as a new deal still lacks binding force. Full story by Laurent Perpigna Iban.
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Ararat began in a disused Roman stockyard and became a Kurdish cultural home. Now it is featured at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale, a case of bottom-up city-making amid Europe’s housing crisis. Full story by Antonella De Biasi.
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November 17, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Ararat began in a disused Roman stockyard and became a Kurdish cultural home. Now it is featured at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale, a case of bottom-up city-making amid Europe’s housing crisis. Full story by Antonella De Biasi.
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China’s rise meets the Kurdish question. Investment, not intervention, gives Beijing leverage, but neutrality with Turkey, Iran and the Gulf often sidelines Kurdish claims. Can development change politics without rights? Full Column by Seevan Saeed.
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China’s Soft Game on the Kurds: Between Pragmatism and Power Politics
As China’s global ambitions expand under the new leadership, its foreign policy is undergoing a gradual but distinctive transformation. Its policy goes from watchful non-alignment to strategic…
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November 17, 2025 at 4:43 PM
China’s rise meets the Kurdish question. Investment, not intervention, gives Beijing leverage, but neutrality with Turkey, Iran and the Gulf often sidelines Kurdish claims. Can development change politics without rights? Full Column by Seevan Saeed.
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This thread examines the data behind Iran’s November 2019 crackdown. The opening map shows confirmed fatalities across eight provinces, highlighting how the violence spread nationwide rather than remaining isolated to a single region.
November 16, 2025 at 9:28 PM
This thread examines the data behind Iran’s November 2019 crackdown. The opening map shows confirmed fatalities across eight provinces, highlighting how the violence spread nationwide rather than remaining isolated to a single region.
Years after IS’s defeat, thousands remain in detention in northeast Syria without credible trial paths. European governments weighed options, then stepped back. AANES asked for support, but politics said no. By Joost Jongerden: www.theamargi.com/posts/justic...
November 16, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Years after IS’s defeat, thousands remain in detention in northeast Syria without credible trial paths. European governments weighed options, then stepped back. AANES asked for support, but politics said no. By Joost Jongerden: www.theamargi.com/posts/justic...
Mosul’s Al-Tahira and Mar Toma churches have reopened after ISIS and war, but many Christians remain in exile. Restoration brings memory. Safety and belonging decide return. Full story by Julia Zimmermann.
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The Vanishing Christians of Mosul
Mar Toma, Mosul | Picture Credit: Julia Zimmermann As Mosul’s churches rise from the rubble, their bells toll for both memory and loss. On the inauguration of two churches, rebuilt after they were…
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November 16, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Mosul’s Al-Tahira and Mar Toma churches have reopened after ISIS and war, but many Christians remain in exile. Restoration brings memory. Safety and belonging decide return. Full story by Julia Zimmermann.
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On paper the process has two legs, Turkey and Syria. On the ground it does not. PKK steps in Turkey contrast with an SDF that will not disarm, and facts in Syria make centralisation unlikely. The pragmatic path is a modus vivendi. Column by Mesut Yeğen: www.theamargi.com/posts/the-pr...
‘The Process’ and Rojava
Members of the Syrian Democratic Forces in Raqqa, Syria | Picture Credits: Qasioun News Agency / Wikimedia Commons The announcements made by Turkish state officials in the first few months of the…
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November 15, 2025 at 5:23 PM
On paper the process has two legs, Turkey and Syria. On the ground it does not. PKK steps in Turkey contrast with an SDF that will not disarm, and facts in Syria make centralisation unlikely. The pragmatic path is a modus vivendi. Column by Mesut Yeğen: www.theamargi.com/posts/the-pr...
They are turning silence into cases and cases into change, from 24/7 Asayish units to women’s courts and cooperatives. Laws now ban child marriage and polygamy, but impunity and online abuse persist. Full story by Chloé Troadec and Angéline Desdevises.
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Breaking the silencing: Fighting Gender-Based Violences in Northeast Syria
In Qamishli, a woman walks down the street in front of a mural fresco reading “Jin, Jyan, Azadi,” a Kurdish slogan meaning “Woman, Life, Freedom,” on March 8, the International Day of Struggle for…
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November 15, 2025 at 4:11 PM
They are turning silence into cases and cases into change, from 24/7 Asayish units to women’s courts and cooperatives. Laws now ban child marriage and polygamy, but impunity and online abuse persist. Full story by Chloé Troadec and Angéline Desdevises.
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“Damascus has verbally accepted decentralization.” says Salih Muslim to The Amargi’s Kamal Chomani, noting that YPJ units and local structures would stay in place. He calls it a major shift but warns nothing is signed yet. Full conversation in the comments.
November 14, 2025 at 6:20 PM
“Damascus has verbally accepted decentralization.” says Salih Muslim to The Amargi’s Kamal Chomani, noting that YPJ units and local structures would stay in place. He calls it a major shift but warns nothing is signed yet. Full conversation in the comments.
Water is leverage. A new Iraq–Turkey understanding links river flows to security and trade, while downstream farmers wait to see canals fill or dry. Full story on The Amargi. Column by Sardar Aziz: www.theamargi.com/posts/iraq-t...
November 14, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Water is leverage. A new Iraq–Turkey understanding links river flows to security and trade, while downstream farmers wait to see canals fill or dry. Full story on The Amargi. Column by Sardar Aziz: www.theamargi.com/posts/iraq-t...
Gold is paying for Sudan’s war, as foreign supply lines and a revived gold trade sustain both RSF and army while civilians flee El Fasher and beyond. Full story on The Amargi: www.theamargi.com/posts/gold-a...
November 14, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Gold is paying for Sudan’s war, as foreign supply lines and a revived gold trade sustain both RSF and army while civilians flee El Fasher and beyond. Full story on The Amargi: www.theamargi.com/posts/gold-a...
“Integration without rights is assimilation,” Salih Muslim tells Kamal Chomani, outlining conditions that protect identity, local forces, and real decentralisation as Washington backs Damascus. Full Interview:
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The Amargi Exclusive: Syrian-Kurdish Leader to Damascus and Washington,“Integration, Not Assimilation”
Kurdish leader Salih Muslim at Rosa Luxemburg Foundation in Berlin | Photo Credits: Rosa Luxemburg Foundation / Wikimedia Commons Until the fall of Bashar al-Assad last December, Syrian interim…
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November 14, 2025 at 12:05 PM
“Integration without rights is assimilation,” Salih Muslim tells Kamal Chomani, outlining conditions that protect identity, local forces, and real decentralisation as Washington backs Damascus. Full Interview:
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Salih Muslim warns that integrating the SDF into the Syrian army without real guarantees could leave Kurds as vulnerable as other communities targeted in recent years. In conversation with The Amargi’s Kamal Chomani. The full conversation in the comments. 👇
November 13, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Salih Muslim warns that integrating the SDF into the Syrian army without real guarantees could leave Kurds as vulnerable as other communities targeted in recent years. In conversation with The Amargi’s Kamal Chomani. The full conversation in the comments. 👇
From sand to seats, Kobani’s young players now have a stadium, and with it a safer, steadier future for local sport. Full story by Cihad Hammy.
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From Sand to Stadium: How Kobani’s Youth Found a Place to Play
Photo Credits: Youth and Sport Board in the Euphrates Region Before 2012, the Assad regime had systematically marginalized Kobani for close to five decades, as it had most other Kurdish cities in…
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November 13, 2025 at 6:30 PM
From sand to seats, Kobani’s young players now have a stadium, and with it a safer, steadier future for local sport. Full story by Cihad Hammy.
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