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The next phase of Turkey-PKK peace talks with Sinem Adar

Sinem Adar, an associate at the Center for Applied Turkey Studies (CATS Network) in the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP), joined Turkey recap’s Diego Cupolo to discuss the Turkey-PKK peace process. Adar outlined recent steps taken by Kurdish militants to disarm and with…

Power, Politics and the Kurdish Future in Syria with Simone Gavazzi

What is Kurdistan, and why does it remain one of the world’s largest stateless nations? Simone Gavazzi, teaching fellow at Maastricht University and filmmaker specializing in migration, minority rights, and Kurdish political identity, unpacks the Kurdish question and the future of Syria. From the c…

Is The Peace Real? 41 YEARS of War vs. 6 MONTHS of Peace. We Checked The Vibe of Kurdish Life in Türkiye Now

A4R 🎨 Podcasts are co created with GenZs Support our work by becoming a paid member.. Forty-one years of conflict and 6 months of peace: Kurdish life in Türkiye after the PKK. Figure 1: Turkey Vs Syria’s Kurds: The short, medium and long story (BBC, 2019) Saida was 19 when drone strikes hit her v…

Ep 22 Max Dashu | Witches | Rematriation | Standing Firm in our Feminism

Medusa Rising audio pods are free and listener supported: https://www.medusarising.org/donate/    Max and Esmée talked of rematriation (returning to the mothers, becoming matriarchal), witches and the hunts, and keeping feminism centered in our feminism.   Max Dashu founded the Suppressed Histo…

S8 Ep792: 1. HEADLINE: Catalyst and Slogan: The Death of Jina Amini and the Kurdish Roots of Uprising GUEST AUTHOR: Nilo Tabrizy SUMMARY: Guest author Nilo Tabrizy discusses the catalyst for Iran's 2022 uprising: the tragic death of Jina Mahsa Amini. She traces the

1. HEADLINE: Catalyst and Slogan: The Death of Jina Amini and the Kurdish Roots of Uprising GUEST AUTHOR: Nilo Tabrizy SUMMARY: Guest author Nilo Tabrizy discusses the catalyst for Iran's 2022 uprising: the tragic death of Jina Mahsa Amini. She traces the "Woman, Life, Freedom" slogan to Kurdish r…

Will the PKK Really Disarm?

In 2025, jailed PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan made a historic call for the group to disarm and dissolve, raising hopes of ending a 40-year conflict that has shaped Turkey and the wider region. Months later, the PKK symbolically laid down arms in what many viewed as a breakthrough moment for the peace …

Status update on Syria and SDF integration with Noah Bonsey

Noah Bonsey, a senior advisor at the International Crisis Group focusing on Syria, joins Turkey recap editor Diego Cupolo to discuss developments in Syria with a focus on integration efforts regarding the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces, SDF. Following a Syrian Army offensive that reclaimed mo…

Peace between Turkey and Kurdish rebels could be at hand

\While conflicts rage across the globe, Turkey may just stand on the brink of ending a struggle that has lasted nearly half a century. The Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, launched an insurgency against Turkey in 1984 with the aim of creating an independent state. But in February last year, a turn…

Rojava: Why Was the Revolution Defeated?

In July 2012, the Kurds living in northeastern Syria, led by the Syrian section of the Kurdish Workers’ Party (PKK), declared their autonomy in what became known as the Rojava Revolution. For the first time in their history the Syrian Kurds became masters over their own lives and destinies, and rul…

Poverty isn’t invisible

Where did August go? Into wildfire smoke and the heat of exhausted ecosystems. “What do you notice?” “A lot of grief. And there’s something like . . . an internal flinch. Not a physical flinch, almost a psychological one.” The clinician raised his eyebrows and wrote something down but said nothi…