By Issa Chomani: Washington, DC Feb 27, 2026, marks Five months since the resumption of the Kurdistan Regional Government’s oil exports through the Iraq–Turkey pipeline. Iraq’s oil minister, Hayyan Abdul Ghani on Feb 25 said, “Kurdistan Region exports currently range between 200,000 and 210,000 barrels per day.” According to Iraq’s state oil marketing company, SOMO,…
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PKK Needs a Vision, Not Just a Leader
By Arian Mufid: For four decades, the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) has waged an armed struggle against the Turkish state. However, the PKK has not achieved the independent Kurdish state it originally set out to fight for when the group was founded in 1978. Despite this, its long-running insurgency eventually led the Turkish government to…
Why Do Kurds Lack a Free Kurdistan?
By Suare B: Internal Fragmentation and KDP’s Complicity with Regional Powers Undermine Kurdish Aspirations The dream of a free and independent Kurdistan remains elusive, despite the Kurds’ enduring struggle across generations and borders. While external forces—particularly the hostility of regional powers like Turkey, Iran, Iraq, and Syria—have undeniably suppressed Kurdish aspirations, internal dynamics within the Kurdish…
The Peace Concept and Ocalan’s Peace Message – Part 2
By Dr. Muhamad Sabir Kareem: If we begin with the truth that one of the basic elements in defining the concept of peace includes the maintenance of justice and the reduction of violence, as well as identifying the factors behind war, violence, and organized oppression, then we can say that the peace process between the…
Hopes and Concerns: Syria’s New Government Strikes Deal with Syrian Kurds
By Rauf Naqishbendi: After the revolt against the Assad government began in 2011, the Kurds took advantage of the opportunity created by the withdrawal of government forces from vast areas of Syria’s northeast. The main Kurdish-led force now controls about 25% of Syria. An autonomous authority runs the day-to-day affairs of the region. Kurds had…
Opinions Regarding Ocalan’s Peace Announcement
By Dr. Muhamad Sabir Kareem: Part 1 History suggests that any peace process must include basic rules and conditions that are essential for the process to succeed. In studying the message delivered by Abdullah Öcalan, the Kurdish leader of North Kurdistan, in the final days of February 2025, we found significant shortcomings and incompatible elements…
The Kurdish-Turkish Peace Process: A Historic Turning Point or Another Cycle of Deception?
By Arian Mufid: On October 2024, Devlet Bahçeli, the leader of the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), shocked the Turkish Parliament by declaring that Abdullah Öcalan, the imprisoned leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), should be freed. Bahçeli also took an unprecedented step by shaking hands with members of the pro-Kurdish DEM Party, many of…
Defend Rojava: Too Great to Fail
By Arian Mufid: Since the beginning of the civil war in Syria in 2011, the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) had a chance to use their influence in the North of Syria, in Kurdistan. In that respect they sent out their senior members to strengthen an organisation akin to PKK. In 2011, the PYD – a…
Successful Visit by the Reporters Organization to Sulaymaniyah
By Dler Ibrahim: In order to closely monitor the conditions of reporters and journalists and prepare the annual report about violations against journalists in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, a delegation from the Reporters Organization for Rights and Development recently visited satellite channels that broadcast their programs from Sulaymaniyah Governorate. The Reporters Organization for Rights…
Hopelessness of Kurds
By Rauf Naqishbendi: The current political, social, and economic state of Iraqi Kurdistan is disheartening, largely due to the corruption of the Talabani and Barzani tribes, who have monopolized power like despotic kings. Envisioning the future of Kurdistan, there is little hope left, as the Barzani and Talabani clans have not only looted the nation’s…
What the US Should Do in the South of Kurdistan
By Arian Mufid: The situation in the South of Kurdistan (Northern Iraq) has reached a point where predicting Turkey’s next move is increasing difficult – if not impossible. It also raises a glaring question: why is there no intervention? Recent events have exacerbated the crisis: Turkey’s military actions, including an errant attack on Southern Kurdistan…
The Close-out of Ekurd.Net
By Rauf Naqishbendi: My dear friends, I write you this email regarding Ekurd.net. If you have visited this site recently, you would have noticed the headline “Ekurd Daily acquired by another Kurdish group from Erbil”. Let me say this is a meaningless acquisition for Ekurd.net which didn’t have an attractive value or revenue to warrant takeover…
Turkey’s Futile Aggression to Eliminate Kurdish Nation
By Arian Mufid: Earlier this month, on 15th August 2024, the Iraqi government and Turkey signed an agreement as part of ongoing efforts to strengthen collaboration. The agreement involves establishing coordination centers in Baghdad and Bashiqa near Mosul to improve efforts against the PKK. These centers will enable the two countries to work together more…
Kobani Trial Sentences: Democracy Slaughtered in Turkey
By Arian Mufid: On Thursday, May 15th, 2024, the North of Kurdistan woke up to the news that their leaders of peaceful democratic movements had been sentenced to years in jail, effectively condemning them to die in prison. The Supreme Criminal Court in Ankara issued several rulings against 108 politicians, including former HDP leaders Selahattin…
Paris Assassination .. of Kurdish Leaders
By Arian Mufid: France has been notorious for political assassinations since the 1970s. In January 2013 Turkish Intelligence plotted the political assassination of PKK leaders Sakine Cansiz, Fidan Dogan and Leyla Saylemez in Paris. The three women are described by their comrades as remarkable woman who were incredible models for the woman’s movement in Kurdistan…
