Oil trail reveals Turkey funding Syrian Kurdish rivals - Al-Monitor: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news source since 2012

Amberin Zaman

Amberin Zaman

Dec 9, 2019

Smoke rises from an oil field in Al-Rmelan, Qamshli province November 11, 2013. With a string of military gains across northeastern Syria, a Kurdish militia is solidifying a geographic and political presence in the war-torn country, posing a dilemma for regional powers. Long oppressed under Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his father before him, Kurds view the civil war as an opportunity to gain the kind of autonomy enjoyed by their ethnic kin in neighbouring Iraq. Picture taken November 11, 2013. REUT — Smoke rises from an oil field in Al-Rmeilan, Qamshli province, Syria, Nov. 11, 2013. — REUTERS

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Iraqi Kurdish regional President Massoud Barzani speaks during a ceremony in Dohuk, northern Iraq August 3, 2015. Barzani vowed to help the Yazidis return to their homes, after they fled from Islamic State last year. REUTERS/Ari Jalal - RTX1MWGL

The Iraqi Kurds' waning love affair with Turkey

Amberin Zaman

In London, reporting on geopolitics, minorities, human rights, culture

Syrian Kurds march in the northern Syrian city of Afrin during a demonstration on February 4, 2018 denouncing the military operation by the Turkish army against the Kurdish YPG forces in Syria's Kurdish enclave. / AFP PHOTO / DELIL SOULEIMAN (Photo credit should read DELIL SOULEIMAN/AFP/Getty Images)

KRG delegation arrives in Afrin as Turkey offensive softens Kurdish split

Amberin Zaman

In London, reporting on geopolitics, minorities, human rights, culture

A soldier walks at Ibrahim Khalil border gate between Iraq and Turkey, near Zakhu, February 26, 2008. Turkish products dominate shop shelves in Iraq's Kurdish north. So, even as residents here seethe in anger at Turkey's big military incursion into their homeland, they cannot afford to cut the economic lifeline with their larger neighbour. Picture taken February 26, 2008. To match feature IRAQ-TURKEY/TRADE REUTERS/Ceerwan Aziz (IRAQ) - GM1E42R1FKC01

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Fehim Tastekin

In Paris, reporting on Turkish politics

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Turkey’s attack on Syrian Kurds aims to deepen intra-Kurdish rift

Amberin Zaman

In London, reporting on geopolitics, minorities, human rights, culture