Rebecca Collard, Time: Why Turkey Sees the Kurdish People as a Bigger Threat than ISIS
The Kurds' success against ISIS might encourage advocates of a Kurdish state across parts of Iraq, Syria and Turkey
As Kurdish forces headed to the frontlines to fight the Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS) this weekend, they came under attack, not by ISIS but by Turkish fighter jets.
“They were going to Kirkuk and Sinjar to fight ISIS,” says Zagros Hiwa, a spokesman for the Kurdish PKK forces. The PKK, The Kurdistan Workers’ Party, is a Kurdish separatist group and also one of the forces fighting ISIS on the ground in Iraq and Syria. They are now also under attack by Turkey.
Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- July 28, 2015
Is PKK real target of Turkish strikes? -- Metin Gurcan, Al Monitor
Turkey vs. Islamic State: What they risk as conflict escalates -- Dominique Soguel, CSM
Turkey's AKP: Sailing into uncharted waters -- Behlul Ozkan, Al Jazeera
Turkey joined the fight against Islamic State, but not for the reasons you think -- Neil Quilliam and Jonathan Friedman, Reuters
Aspiring to impunity in Lebanon -- Lina Khatib & Bassem Deaibess, Al Jazeera
Why Americans Won’t Like the New Middle East Order -- Steven Metz, WPR
After the Nuclear Deal, a Region Recalibrates -- Stratfor
What’s behind Beijing’s drive to control the South China Sea? -- Howard W French, The Guardian
Obama probably won't be invited to speak at the African Union again any time soon -- Erin Conway-Smith, Global Post
Greece's crashing economy drives the young and educated towards the exits -- Kit Gillet, CSM
Is the United States Selling Out Ukraine? -- Brian Whitmore, The Atlantic
Vladimir Putin’s most effective weapon is gas – but not the poison kind -- Josh Cohen, Reuters
Why is Russia sending bombers close to U.S. airspace? -- Laura Smith-Spark, CNN
Even the Former Director of the NSA Hates the FBI’s New Surveillance Push -- Noah Shachtman, Daily Beast
The Animal Serial Killer Who Shot Cecil The Lion -- Nina Strochlic, Daily Beast
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