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2025
Kurdistan Region
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Öcalan's Call for the Dissolution of the PKK and the Regional Context
In our latest edition of Turkeyscope, Dr. Gülistan Gürbey addresses the regional implications of the recent call by PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan to dissolve the PKK. The article gives the domestic context of this move and focuses on what it means for the Syrian Kurdish area, also known as Rojava.
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February
2024
Anfal and Halabja Genocide: Lessons Not Learned
Prof. Ofra Bengio, a Senior Research Fellow at MDC, published an article in "The Journal of the Middle East and Africa" about the Halabja genocide and the lessons learned from this Kurdish trauma.
Autonomy Curbed? Kurdish Oil Exports Hit Snags from Turkey and Baghdad
In this new edition of Tel Aviv Notes, Josh Krasna examines the implications of the closure of the pipeline that delivered oil from the Kurdistan Regional Government of Iraq to Turkey's Ceyhan port, focusing on the state of relations between Erbil and Baghdad.
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March
2023
Can Women in the KRI Break the Glass Ceiling?
Ofra Bengio has published an article in "Kurdistan Chronicle" about the history of Kurdish women's rights and Kurdish female involvement in the military and politics.
Jews, Israel and the Kurds: unravelling the myth
Ofra Bengio has published an article in "Israel Affairs", where she examines the relationship between Jews, Israel and the Kurds.
Great expectations: The Kurds of Iraq and President Biden - opinion
Ofra Bengio writes for Jerusalem Post about the great hopes the kurds of Iraq are pinning on US President Joe Biden.