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Middle East and North Africa: Kurdish Issue

GW Resources

Selected Essential Books

Experts

Aliza Marcus, PKK expert.

Bulent Aliriza, Center for Strategic and International Studies.

Cengiz Candar,columnist for Radikal and Al-Monitor.

Denise Natali, expert on Kurdish politics at NDU in Washington, DC.

Ersel Aydinli, expert on PKK terrorism.

Gonul Tol, Director of the Center for Turkish Studies at the MEI in Washington, DC.

Harriet Allsopp, expert on Syrian Kurds at MERI in Erbil.

Jordi Tejel, professor at the Graduate Institute Geneva.

Kadri Gursel, columnist for Al-Monitor and Milliyet.

Nihat Ali Ozcan,expert on the Turkish military and PKK at TEPAV in Ankara.

Documentaries

News Sources

A list of on-line newspaper and television sources that provide news, analysis, and/or propaganda about the Kurdish Issue.

Multilingual Sources:

Al Arabiya (English) (Arabic)

Rudaw(English,SoraniArabic,Turkish)

Hurriyet (English) (Turkish)

Sources in English:

Al Monitor (English)

EKurd Daily (English)

Iraqi News (English)

The Kurdistan Tribune (English)

Sources in Turkish:

Hurriyet (English)   (Turkish)

Radikal (Turkish)

TRT Haber (Turkish)

Yuksekova Haber (Turkish)

Sources in Kurdish:

TRT Kurdi/TRT 6 (Kurdish)

Note: The Kurdish media outlets listed below are banned in Turkey and/or Europe due to Turkey's claims that these outlet have connections with and/or provide propaganda on behalf of terrorist organizations. They are listed here for academic and research purposes. 

Gerilla TV (Kurdish)

Kurd Press (English)  (Kurdish)

Kurdistan TV (Kurdish)

NRT TV (Kurdish)     (Arabic)

Rejova Kurdistan (Turkish)    (Kurdish)

Online Resources

Key Figures

Abdullah Ocalan, PKK founder.

Ahmet Turk, Kurdish nationalist politician in Turkey, former chairman of DTP.

Barham Salih, Iraqi Kurdish politician. He is the former prime minister of the KRG.

Cemil Bayik, one of the founders of the PKK and member of the PKK Executive Committee.

Fuad Masum, Iraqi Kurdish politician, 7th President of Iraq.

Hakan Fidan, Turkish politician, head of the National Intelligence Organization.

Jalal TalabaniKurdish nationalist politician in Iraq and founder of the PUK. Former President of Iraq.

Kosrat Rasul Ali, Iraqi Kurdish politician, PUK member, Peshmerga veteran.

Leyla Zana, Kurdish politician in Turkey, former DTP member.

Masoud Barzani, President of the KRG and leader of the KDP.

Mullah Mustafa Barzani, legendary Kurdish nationalist leader. Former leader of the KDP.

Murat Karayilan, PKK Chairman of Executive Committee, commander-in-chief of the People's Defense Force.

Masrour Barzani, Chancellor of the Kurdistan Region Security Council.

Nawshirwan Mustafa, Iraqi Kurdish politician, General Coordinator of the Movement for Change, opposition leader within KRG.

Nechervan Barzani, Prime Minister of the KRG.

Qazi Muhammad, former Kurdish leader and the Head of the Republic of Kurdistan (Republic of Mahabad).

Qubad Talabani, Deputy Prime Minister of the KRG.

Salih Muslim, co-chairman of the PYD.

Selahattin Demirtaş,  Kurdish nationalist politician in Turkey and co-head of the left-wing pro-Kurdish HDP.

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