Kurds ponder future in Turkey, Syria and Iraq with guarded optimism

FO° Talks: Josef Olmert on Syria, Part 3: Turkey and the Kurdish Issue

[This is the third part of a nine-part series. To read more, see Parts 1 and 2 here.]Approximately two million Kurds live in Syria, predominantly in the northeastern region near Iraq and Turkey. During the country’s ongoing civil war, which began in 2011, Kurdish groups established an autonomous polity in the area, dubbed the Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, Rojava.Turkey is also home to a sizable Kurdish minority. I…

Attacked by Turkey and the laches by Donald Trump, the Syrian Kurds should lose the autonomy they had dearly acquired at the end of Bashar al-Assad's reign.

Kurds ponder future in Turkey, Syria and Iraq with guarded optimism

The mood among the Kurds has changed after Kurdish militant leader Abdullah Ocalan urged the PKK to end its struggle against Turkey.

The terrorist threat posed by the PKK is an important factor by which the Turkish government under President Erdogan justifies its authoritarian leadership style.The Kurdish leader Öcalan is now calling for its dissolution – an opportunity for the political system?

Political and cultural circles have recently witnessed a heated discussion on the issue of Kirkuk province and the oil agreements signed between the Baghdad government and international companies. In the context of his speech, the contradictory statements and tweets between Arabs and Turkmen on the one hand, and the Kurds on the other hand, starting with the statement made by Mr. Masrour Barzani, the Prime Minister of the Kurdistan Region severa…