Amberin Zaman
Chief Correspondent at Al-Monitor
Chief correspondent @AlMonitor Turkey Correspondent @TheEconomist (1999-2016) Fellow @TheWilsonCenter (2016-2017) My ❤️ is in Kyiv 🇺🇦📩[email protected]
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5 days ago |
al-monitor.com | Amberin Zaman
The outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party announced it had held a long-awaited congress on Friday during which it likely decided to disband itself and end its four decade long armed campaign against the Turkish state. The militant group said the congress had been held in Iraqi Kurdistan between May 5-7 and that it would soon be sharing the details of its deliberations with the public. On Feb.
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1 month ago |
al-monitor.com | Amberin Zaman
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan held his first phone call with President Donald Trump on Sunday touching on a range of issues, including the Russia-Ukraine conflict, according to a readout from Turkey’s Presidential Communications Directorate. Erdogan offered support to Trump’s effort to end the three-year-long war and called for closer coordination between Ankara and Washington, the directorate noted in its statement.
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2 months ago |
al-monitor.com | Amberin Zaman
Imprisoned Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan made a historic call on Thursday for members of his outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) to lay down their weapons and end more than four decades of conflict with the Turkish state. Ocalan’s statement was relayed by lawmakers from Turkey’s largest pro-Kurdish DEM party who met with the rebel chief earlier today on the prison island where has been held since his capture by Turkish special forces in Kenya in 1999.
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2 months ago |
al-monitor.com | Amberin Zaman
In a widely anticipated statement that many hope will set the stage for ending more than more than four decades of conflict between Turkey and the Kurds, imprisoned Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan called on his followers Thursday to lay down their weapons and disband the rebel organization. “I am making a call for the laying down of arms, and I take on the historical responsibility for this call,” Ocalan said in his remarks that were relayed at a news conference in Istanbul.
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Jan 15, 2025 |
al-monitor.com | Amberin Zaman
Mazlum Kobane, the commander of the Syrian Democratic Forces, the Pentagon’s top ally in the fight against the Islamic State, is expected to meet with Masoud Barzani, former president of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq and the elder statesmen of Kurdish politics worldwide, three well-placed sources have confirmed to Al-Monitor.
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