With the Arabs essentially taken out of this great game, it now comes down to an ancient animus: the Turkish Sunni Muslims versus the Persian Shiite Muslims for control over this region.

Turkey has taken complete charge of the situation in Syria following the downfall of former president Bashar al-Assad, per comments made from the ground to The American Conservative. While many of the ...

" Lost Alphabet ,” the award-winning artist Ahmet Gunestekin’s most ambitious exhibition to date, is a cry against forced ...

The carving up of the former Ottoman Empire by European imperial powers, the Mossadegh Affair in Iran, the British occupation of the Suez Canal zone and American military intervention in Iraq ...

This intellectual religious component is especially relevant in the outlying regions of the old Ottoman Empire where a high number of Kurdish-speaking religious scholars were elected to spread Islam ...

reorganized the remnants of the Ottoman army, launched the Turkish War of Independence, and reclaimed the territory that would become modern Turkey. Almost immediately, however, some Kurdish ...

QAMISHLI, Syria — Kurds in Syria were marginalized during five decades of Assad family rule, with many denied citizenship and wrongly described as Arabs. Now they are seizing the chance during ...

The Kurds, one of the world’s largest populations without a state of their own, have been feeling some control over their lives and want to make that permanent with a new government in power.