Kurdish Policy Research Center - KPRC

10/11/2021

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Iraq’s Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC) has begun releasing partial, preliminary results in the parliamentary election.Results are not immediately available for all provinces and the commission said it is investigating complaints.The Secretary-General...

10/08/2021

The Turkish ruler’s strongman tactics fail to work on the US and Russia

10/03/2021

Kurds seek sanctions waiver as they try to jump-start negotiations with President Bashar Al Assad

09/21/2021

“Lahur is in turn highly popular among the PKK’s base, particularly for his role in helping to cement the alliance between the PKK’s Syrian arm and the United States to fight the Islamic State. His harsh criticism of the KDP’s tight relations with Turkey adds to his appeal.”

Read more: https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2021/09/turkeys-latest-attack-pkk-militant-iraqi-kurdistan-meant-show-strength

In recent months, Turkish drones have picked off a string of mid-level commanders in Iraqi Kurdistan and northeast Syria.

08/25/2021

Politics ‘Masoud Barzani is a good friend of mine’ — Kurdistan is not Afghanistan! Laurie Mylroie 7 Hours Joe Biden (right), then US vice-president, meets with President Masoud Barzani in Erbil, April 28, 2016. (Photo: Kurdistan Region Presidency) Kurdistan USA Washington Joe Biden Masoud.....

08/21/2021

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08/21/2021

A Turkish airstrike has killed four members of a US-backed Syrian Kurdish force.

08/21/2021

Insightful remarks by Michael Rubin on US withdrawal from Afghanistan and Turkey and Pakistan as sponsors of terrorism

Michael Rubin addressed the catastrophic return of the Taliban in the wake of the US and allied military withdrawal, as well as wider regional issues, for an AIJAC webinar on 20 August 2021.

08/15/2021

Peter Bergen writes that President Joe Biden is presiding over a debacle entirely of his own making in Afghanistan -- and one that has unfolded more swiftly than even the most dire prognostications.

08/15/2021

Washington, D.C. – 28 members of the House of Representatives, led by Congressmen David Cicilline of Rhode Island and Gus Bilirakis of Florida, wrote to Secretary of State Antony Blinken to “[express] concern over Turkey’s armed unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) program, which has destabilized mul...

08/01/2021

Dedeoglu family had previously been attacked and complained that police ignored the threat against their lives

07/30/2021

Erdogan's depiction of Turkey as a bastion of anti-imperialism is not new—though it is an increasingly common theme of Turkish propaganda.