Exclusive Interview With DEM Party Co-chair: Inside Turkey’s Most Delicate Peace Process Yet
In an exclusive interview, DEM Party Co-Chair Tuncer Bakırhan tells The Amargi’s Irfan Aktan that Ankara must take the next steps in the peace process with Kurds – or risk losing the most promising opening in decades. For nearly a year, Turkey has been engaged in what may be its most delicate effort to peacefully […]
How the SDF Could Redraw Syria’s Power Map
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The Struggle and Revival of the Kurdish Language
Once whispered in secret and prohibited from even the simplest outdoor conversations, the Kurdish language has long shared the struggle of its people–enduring repression, exile, and erasure. Today, as a result of decades of struggle, it is beginning to carve out a fragile presence in the world, finding its voice in the context of new […]
How Turkey’s 2025 Mining Law reshapes land, law, and resistance
A new omnibus bill is currently being debated in the Turkish parliament, with five articles approved as of July 17, 2025. Officially titled the “Bill on Amending Certain Laws” (2/3159) but referred to by the public as the “Süper İzinli Talan Yasası” (literally, the “Super Permit for Plundering Law,” amplifying the bill’s enabling of environmental […]
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