In Germany, that supposed bastion of liberal democracy, the state treats standing up for Kurdish rights as tantamount to terrorism — and hits activists with house searches, imprisonment, and even deportation.
Supporters of the revolution in Rojava, Oğuz Yüzgeç and Sercan Üstündaş spent the last three years in a Damascus jail. Following their release last month, they told Jacobin about the torture they suffered and what they expect from post-Assad Syria.
Whatever happens tomorrow, the Left is in a better position than ever to challenge Erdoğan's fragmented regime.
A new collection of photography captures the Kurdish struggle against ISIS — and their efforts to build a radically egalitarian society based on principles of peace and democracy.
Turkish novelist Ahmet Altan was just released from prison after spending three years incarcerated on trumped-up charges. In an interview with Jacobin, Altan discusses his new memoir, his arrest, and the Erdoğan government’s war on dissent.
Last fall, Armenia was devastated by a six-week war with its neighbor Azerbaijan, ending in the deployment of Russian peacekeepers across the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh. Yet the "peace agreement" has done nothing to resolve the deeper reasons for the conflict, in the ethno-nationalist strife which has simmered since the fall of the USSR.
Sweden long rejected militarism, even offering government funding to peace movements. Yet since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the political mood has changed abruptly, with a witch hunt launched against activists who oppose the country’s embrace of NATO.
This morning, Azerbaijan and Armenia agreed to a cease-fire after almost two weeks of fighting over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region. But like after the last truce in 1994, there can be no enduring peace without a political solution — one that overcomes the violent legacy of the Soviet collapse in the Caucasus.
It’s been four years since Kurdish-led forces defeated the ISIS caliphate. But still today, the new authorities in North East Syria have to deal with thousands of foreign ISIS fighters, whose homelands refuse pleas to take them back.
Supporting Palestinian liberation requires just one thing: upholding the right to self-determination.
A recently declassified document again shows the United States' complicity in the rise of ISIS.
Turkey’s working-class gardens are under attack from elite developers.
A year of smooth jazz and revolutionary exhortations.
The rise of Islamophobia in France grew out of elites' need to manage working-class resistance.
A no-fly zone in Syria isn't a humanitarian response -- it's a call to war.
Even after ISIS is defeated in northern Iraq, the country won't see an end to violent conflict.
Along the new migration route through southeastern Europe, migrants are beaten, stranded, and neglected, while the EU looks the other way.
Children deserve to spend their days in the company of peers, having fun, and discovering the world with the help of loving, well-compensated adults.
In 2016, 14 health workers tried to help civilians trapped in Turkey's besieged town of Cizre. Today, Erdogan's government wants to jail them for this act.
Today, Palestinians are observing Nakba Day, which mourns their mass expulsion in 1948. Israel is celebrating with a music festival.