On the Middle East with Andrew Parasiliti and Amberin Zaman | Episode #151 Will Armenia’s land border with Iran be Azerbaijan’s next target after Nagorno-Karabakh, asks analyst Benjamin Poghosyan Yerevan-based analyst Benjamin Poghosyan says that Azerbaijan's actions in Nagorno-Karabakh presage further land grabs and broader conflict.
On the Middle East with Andrew Parasiliti and Amberin Zaman | Episode #150 Iraqi Kurdish scholar Mohammed Salih says violence targeting Kurds in Kirkuk revives ghosts of Saddam regime At least four Kurdish demonstrators were shot dead last weekend in the oil-rich province of Kirkuk, raising the specter of Arab-Kurdish conflict. The bloodshed was triggered by an Iraqi federal court rejecting Prime Minister Mohamed Shia al-Sudani's decision to let a Kurdish group reclaim its headquarters that are currently occupied by Iraqi security forces.
On the Middle East with Andrew Parasiliti and Amberin Zaman | Episode #149 Saudi Arabia responsible for mass killings of Ethiopian migrants on Yemeni border, says Human Rights Watch researcher Nadia Hardman Hundreds of Ethiopian migrants and asylum seekers have been shot by Saudi border guards as they tried to cross in from Yemen, according to a chilling new report from Human Rights Watch.
On the Middle East with Andrew Parasiliti and Amberin Zaman | Episode #148 After 39 years of armed conflict with Turkey, outlawed PKK militants may be weakened but not defeated, says author Frederike Geerdink Failing to resolve the Kurdish issue remains one of the biggest obstacles to democracy in Turkey, says Dutch author Frederike Geerdink.
On the Middle East with Andrew Parasiliti and Amberin Zaman | Episode #147 'My father shares a prison cell with inmates who make sandwiches with their own flesh,' says British-Tunisian activist Kaouther Ferjani In this week's episode of 'On the Middle East,' Amberin Zaman speaks with Kaouther Ferjani, the daughter of jailed Tunisian politician Said Ferjani, about the the country's ongoing descent into autocracy under President Kais Saied.
On the Middle East with Andrew Parasiliti and Amberin Zaman | Episode #146 Turkey's ratification of Sweden's NATO membership not enough to secure Congressional approval for F-16s, says Hellenic American Leadership Council chief Endy Zemenides Several top US senators say Turkey's acquisition of US F-16 fighter jets hinges on its ratification of Sweden's membership in NATO.
On the Middle East with Andrew Parasiliti and Amberin Zaman | Episode #145 Does Turkey's decision to let Sweden join NATO spell new positive era with Washington? Not really, says Turkey analyst Nicholas Danforth Is Erdogan turning away from Russia in favor of America and Europe? Analyst Nicholas Danforth says such conclusions are premature.
On the Middle East with Andrew Parasiliti and Amberin Zaman | Episode #144 Free Turkish Press editor Yavuz Baydar says Erdogan will win local elections, crush Kurds and strut on world stage Erdogan's victory in the May elections could usher in a new and irreversible era for Turkey's politics.
On the Middle East with Andrew Parasiliti and Amberin Zaman | Episode #143 Iranian academic Arash Azizi says slain Quds Force Commander Qassem Soleimani looms as large in death as in life The legacy of Qassem Soleimani, the legendary Iranian commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps' Quds Force, continues to reverberate across the region, says his biographer Arash Azizi. He has left a vacuum that has yet to be filled.
On the Middle East with Andrew Parasiliti and Amberin Zaman | Episode #142 Turkey scholar Howard Eissenstat on the dynamics of Erdogan's enduring success Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was just re-elected president even though pollsters predicted that his rival would win. Turkey scholar Howard Eissenstat says that Erdogan, the country's most skilled politician in modern times, is a master at reading the nation's pulse. But can he sustain his rule in the midst of a failing economy and prevail in critical local elections that are to be held next year?
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