As you wander through the streets of Qamishli, a city located in far north-east Syria, you pass by its traditional neighborhoods — al-Bashiriya,…

According to the final results of the second round of the Turkish presidential elections, the general trend of Kurdish electoral behaviour remained…

Turkey’s presidential candidate Kemal Kiliçdaroğlu has shattered a longstanding political taboo in the country.The man now facing a run-off election…

Although the Labour and Freedom alliance, representing the Kurdish national movement in the recent Turkish elections, maintained its lead in most…

For five decades, Cengiz Çandar played a significant role in Turkey's political and cultural scene and is now a candidate in the current…

The state of political debate in Iran is raising some fundamental questions about the purpose of its opposition party and the scope of its ambitions…

Erbil: In a conversation with Al Majalla, former Iraqi foreign minister and leader of the Kurdistan Democratic Party Hoshyar Zebari provides a…

As Turkey's election campaign reaches its peak less than a month before Election Day on 14 May, the once-dominant political party of Turkish…

Despite the cruelty and deprivation experienced by many Iraqis during the reign of Saddam Hussein, some look back at that period with a sense of…

Despite all that has happened, the situation in Iraq is just as it has been for many years: the state is moving toward a centralised economy…