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TURKISH Kurds marked the 31st anniversary on Saturday of the start of the armed struggle for national rights, as the prospect of peace further receded.
The Kurdistan Communities Union (KCK), a sister organisation of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), celebrated the August 15 1984 attacks on two police stations that began the PKK’s armed campaign.
The attacks were led by Mahsum Korkmaz, known as “Agit,” who was killed less than two years later by Turkish forces.
VIJAY PRASHAD details how US support for Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa allowed him to break the resistance of the autonomous Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF)
VIJAY PRASHAD looks at the web of militias and drug-trafficking gangs that emerged in the Sweida region through the Syrian civil war, and how they relate to recent clashes and Israel’s intervention