The Commentaries

2021 - 2023

Current editor(s): Joost Jongerden

From Transnational Press London, UK
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Volume 3, issue 1, 2023

Kurdistan under new attacks pp. 1-10

Terry Saltsman and Michael M. Gunter

Dynamics of Communal Violence in the Turkish-Kurdish Conflict pp. 11-24

Imren Borsuk

Urban Destruction and Redevelopment as Counterinsurgency: The Void, The Limbo and New Face of Sur pp. 25-50

Arjin Tas

Implications of Turkish Invasions in Rojava for American and European Foreign Policies pp. 51-69

Veysi Dag

Colonial continuities in the Kurdish liberation pp. 71-89

Jan Yasin Sunca

Analysing the PKK’s Rebel Governance: Data Limitations and Some Potential Solutions pp. 91-106

Francis O’Connor and Kamuran Akin

The Governance Structure of Turkish-controlled Afrin pp. 107-122

Alexander McKeever

Chronology of the PKK: From group formation to party (1973–1980) pp. 123-136

Joost Jongerden

Volume 2, issue 1, 2022

Turkish Paramilitaries during the Conflict with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party PKK pp. 1-11

Ayhan Işık

Kurdish Allies and Kurdish Enemies: Turkey’s New War Against the PKK pp. 13-23

Kamal Chomani and Dastan Jasim

Delisting the PKK as a Terrorist Organization pp. 25-38

Michael Gunter

Environmental Racism and Resistance in Kurdistan pp. 39-48

Pınar Dinç

Turkey’s Military Urbanism and Neocolonial Architecture in Kurdish Cities pp. 49-62

Diren Taş

The Kurds in Lebanon: Post-Naturalization Political Survival Strategies pp. 63-76

Guita Hourani

Turkish Racism Against Kurds: Colonial Violence, Racist Slurs and Mob Attacks pp. 77-90

Güllistan Yarkın

Some Implications of Sweden and Finland Joining NATO pp. 91-100

Michael M. Gunter

Promoting Terror by the Turkish State: The Case of the Turkistan Islamic Party pp. 101-112

Seevan Saeed

Anti-intellectualism and discrediting of critical academics in Turkey: an approach to the Turkish-Kurdish conflict pp. 113-128

Serhat Tutkal

Volume 1, issue 1, 2021

“You sleep with the devil; you wake up in hell!”: On the new EU-Turkey Deal pp. 1-7

Nikos Christofis

Playing politics with the plight of refugees. How the EU went into Erdogan’s political receivership pp. 9-15

Naif Bezwan and Janroj Yilmaz Keles

Merkel’s positive agenda has collapsed before it started pp. 17-21

Cengiz Aktar

Watershed moment in US-Turkey relations pp. 23-30

David L. Phillips

Turkey’s dealing with the Syrian Kurds (Part I) pp. 31-38

Michael Gunter

Turkey’s dealing with the Syrian Kurds (Part II) pp. 39-47

Michael Gunter

Minorities in Turkey I: Law and Reform pp. 49-56

Baskın Oran

Minorities in Turkey II: Ideology and Discrimination pp. 57-64

Baskın Oran

Human Rights Jeopardized in Turkey: Governmental and Judicial Intentions to Erode Due Process and the Right to a Fair Trial pp. 65-73

Hasan Aydın

Authoritarianism from Above and Below: Exclusive Nationalism and the Turkish-Kurdish Conflict pp. 75-83

Harun Ercan

What Will Happen to the Kurds If the US Withdraws from Syria and Iraq? pp. 85-96

Arzu Yılmaz

On the Collateral Impact of Turkey’s Authoritarian Turn: Re-securitization of the Kurdish Issue and the Kurds’ Struggle for Minority Recognition and Self-Determination pp. 97-104

Emre Turkut