Kurds Articles

With a referendum looming, Kurdistan stands on the cusp of independence – but it would be unwise to think a 'yes' vote is already in the bag, writes Gary Kent The announcement that the Kurds are holding a referendum on independence from Iraq on 25 September has so far...

Prior to this year's failed coup, Turkey’s most recent coup took place in 1997 and was known as a postmodern or ‘soft’ coup. There was no military presence on the streets or in the air, yet the Turkish army put enough pressure was on the coalition government to cause...

Iraq remains a four-letter word in British politics that just keeps giving. Owen Jones' recent effusive encomium in the Guardian to Jeremy Corbyn and his pledge to apologise for what Jones calls 'the greatest western foreign policy catastrophe of our time' also lists...

The Foreign and Commonwealth Office's reply, in the last few hours of this parliament and government, to the report of the foreign affairs committee on UK policy towards the Kurdistan region is a model of precision, or a perfunctory response to a sophisticated...