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Kurds - The Facts

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.)

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Kurdish Political Parties. Wikipedia.org

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.

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Action and Information

Action and Information

Links for campaigning and more reading on Kurdistan.

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Get out! Young Kurds confront a Turkish military vehicle on patrol in northern Syria after Turkey’s invasion. Photo: Delil Souleiman/AFP/Getty

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.

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 Photo: Nina Subin

Spotlight: Maaza Mengiste

Maaza Mengiste talks to Subi Shah about the women who fought Mussolini in Ethiopia.

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Mixed Media: Books

Barn 8; Footwork: What your shoes are doing to the world; Sinews of War and Trade; The System: Who Owns the Internet, and How It Owns Us

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The Puzzler

Crossword Puzzle, Association Words and Wordsearch

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 Illustration: Andy Carter

What if…

We had binding quotas for women in politics? Vanessa Baird looks at what gender parity can do.

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Agony Uncle

Agony Uncle

Ethical and political dilemmas abound these days. Seems like we’re all in need of a New Internationalist perspective. Enter stage: Agony Uncle.

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 Illustration: P J Polyp

Big Bad World

Bull market, by P J Polyp.

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The fight continues: indigenous groups and their allies blockade government buildings in Victoria, Canada to protest a natural gas pipeline through Wet’suwet’en territory. Photo: ZUMA Press, Inc./Alamy

Temperature check

Danny Chivers is buoyed up by three decisive victories led by indigenous groups against fossil-fuel interests in Australia, Brazil and Canada.

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 Illustration: Marc Roberts

Only Planet

Protecting the vulnerable, by Marc Roberts.

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Lazinho and Lucas di Fiori. Photo: Alessio Perrone

The Interview: Lazinho and Lucas di Fiori

Lazinho and Lucas di Fiori of Brazil’s famous Banda Olodum talk to Alessio Perrone about 40 years of drumming up change.

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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.)

July, 2020 526 Buy
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.

July, 2020 526 Buy
Action and Information

Links for campaigning and more reading on Kurdistan.

July, 2020 526 Buy
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.

Vanessa Baird July, 2020 526 Buy
Spotlight: Maaza Mengiste

Maaza Mengiste talks to Subi Shah about the women who fought Mussolini in Ethiopia.

Subi Shah May, 2020 525 Buy
Mixed Media: Music

A Day Will Come; Kvitravn

May, 2020 525 Buy
Mixed Media: Film

Ema; It Must Be Heaven

May, 2020 525 Buy
Mixed Media: Books

Barn 8; Footwork: What your shoes are doing to the world; Sinews of War and Trade; The System: Who Owns the Internet, and How It Owns Us

May, 2020 525 Buy
The Puzzler

Crossword Puzzle, Association Words and Wordsearch

May, 2020 525 Read
What if…

We had binding quotas for women in politics? Vanessa Baird looks at what gender parity can do.

Vanessa Baird May, 2020 525 Read
Agony Uncle

Ethical and political dilemmas abound these days. Seems like we’re all in need of a New Internationalist perspective. Enter stage: Agony Uncle.

Agony Uncle May, 2020 525 Read
Big Bad World

Bull market, by P J Polyp.

P J Polyp May, 2020 525 Buy
Temperature check

Danny Chivers is buoyed up by three decisive victories led by indigenous groups against fossil-fuel interests in Australia, Brazil and Canada.

Danny Chivers May, 2020 525 Read
Only Planet

Protecting the vulnerable, by Marc Roberts.

Marc Roberts May, 2020 525 Buy
The Interview: Lazinho and Lucas di Fiori

Lazinho and Lucas di Fiori of Brazil’s famous Banda Olodum talk to Alessio Perrone about 40 years of drumming up change.

Alessio Perrone May, 2020 525 Buy