Regions / Middle East / Kurdistan
Articles about Kurdistan, ordered by date. 
War from above
A Turkish drone strike killed three female Kurdish activists near Kobane, writes C Englert.
Energy warfare
North and East Syrian civilians face a winter without power or water after Turkish airstrikes, reports Eve Morris-Gray.
Mandela of the Middle East?
Abdullah Öcalan’s journey to democratic confederalism.
Dreaming of Sur
Longing for a return to Turkish Kurdistan’s shattered city centre.
100 years of hope, struggle and betrayal
Key events in recent Kurdish history.
A shot at statehood
Lorraine Mallinder gets inside the proto-petro-state of Iraqi Kurdistan.
Unbowed
Turkey wants to undo the revolution in North and East Syria. But the women of Rojava are resisting, writes Dilar Dirik.
Kurds - The Facts
The Kurds – the fourth-biggest ethnic group in the Middle East – are described as ‘the largest nation without a state’. (Where accurate statistics are lacking, we have gone with ‘reasonable’ estimates.)
Who’s who and what do they stand for?
There are scores of different Kurdish political factions, parties and movements, some of which connect with each other, others that are radically and bitterly opposed. Here, in simple form, are the key players.
Action and Information
Links for campaigning and more reading on Kurdistan.
Betrayed again
Under the cover of Covid-19, Turkey is hammering the Kurds. Again. Should the world care? Vanessa Baird offers several good reasons why it should.
Packing a punch
In the refugee camps of Iraqi Kurdistan, Yazidi women are using boxing to overcome the traumas of war. Report by Monir Ghaedi, photos by Giacomo Sini.
Turkey: wolf at the door
The Kurdish MP has been on hunger strike since November.
Boycott Turkish holidays, say Kurds
The Kurdish freedom movement has called for a boycott of Turkish goods and services. Sarah Wood reports.
‘Freedom can’t be contained by a wall’
In an explosive interview to New Internationalist, the Kurdish female leader Bese Hozat opens up about peace, the party’s view on the region and the independence referendum in South Kurdistan, and accuses Turkey, Saudi Arabia and the West to have incubated Isis. By Karlos Zurutuza.
Southern Exposure: Sudeep Lingamneni
Alice Melike Ülgezer’s Kurdish body art photographed by Sudeep Lingamneni.
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