Responding to queries about the difference between ‘people(s)’ and ‘indigenous people’ from friends/interested folks. Here's the scoop 👇 وەڵامێک بۆ پرسیاری چەند هەڤاڵــی هێژا سەبارەت بە جیاوازی نێوان people و indigenous people و مافەکانیان لە ڕوانگەی یاسایی نێودەوڵەتی #Kurdistan

✨Honored to receive the 1st valuable review of my book from Michael Rubin, a distinguished Senior Fellow at American Enterprise Institute, specializing in Iran/Turkey/Middle East & Africa! 📘Towards An Independent Kurdistan Gratitude for the review in MEQuarterly on Middle East Forum meforum.org/65624/towards-…

I often criticize superficiality of English-language books about Kurdistan. Loqman Radpey's "Towards an Independent Kurdistan: Self-Determination in International Law" is exception. It is careful, scholarly, well-written and contributes a lot meforum.org/65624/towards-… #TwitterKurds

Getting a review from Michael Rubin (Michael Rubin) is no easy feat, as a friend rightly noted. ☀️ Re-published by the American Enterprise Institute (American Enterprise Institute). aei.org/op-eds/book-re… #BookReview #Kurdistan #InternationalLaw #selfdetermination #Statehood #Independece #Sovereignty

Analysis on ABC News: The Kurds Can be Reliable Defence Partners in the Tumultuous Middle East “The #Kurdistani_entities MUST not be susceptible to exploitation for the sake of advancing ad hoc American or Western objectives.” By ABC News #Kurdistan abc.net.au/religion/kurds…

📑 The Prospects of a Two-State Solution for #Kurdistan By Australian Institute of International Affairs My latest piece, highlighting a response from the UK’s FCDO to my correspondence (25 Feb 2024), urging Secretary David Cameron to explore avenues for Kurdish self-determination. internationalaffairs.org.au/australianoutl…

📑 Stalled Democracy: The Saga of Delayed Elections in Kurdistan OxPol (Oxford University Politics Blog) #Kurdistan’s overdue parliamentary #elections are set for 6 June 2024. However, their occurrence hinges on a precarious #political balance. blog.politics.ox.ac.uk/stalled-democr…

✨New Article Palestinian #statehood blends legal principles & political maneuvering. Read how politics often trumps law in the quest for #sovereignty. Pub By Cambridge Journal of International Law Cambridge International Law Journal (CILJ) #Statehood #Israel #Palestine #MiddleEast cilj.co.uk/2024/06/21/rec…

Ignore the reformer charade in Iran washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltwa… via Washington Examiner

📃What Kurdistan Should Learn from Turkey’s Cyprus Occupation by @MEForum 💫 On the 50th anniversary of northern #Cyprus's occupation, explore the parallels with Turkey's policies in #Kurdistan. #Kurdistan #Cyprus #occupation #demographic_engineering meforum.org/65997/what-kur…

Turkey uses occupation to create satrapies that it then molds in its own image, first to transform society, then to use false demands of self-determination to create statelets that culminate in a new Anschluss. meforum.org/65997/what-kur…

➡️ The past decade has seen relentless Turkish expansion into #Kurdistan. 🌍 It is crucial, Loqman Kurdistani of Edinburgh Law School warns, that the international community does not abandon the #Kurds in their fight against Turkey’s violations. bit.ly/4cr8p7W

The Turkification of Kurdistan: the world looks on Loqman Kurdistani theloop.ecpr.eu/the-turkificat…

📑 The Turkification of Kurdistan: the World Looks on 🔗exposes Turkey's ethnic reconfiguration in (S & W of) Kurdistan & the passivity of the US, EU, NATO & Arab League; reveals Pakistan, Qatar, & Kuwait's role in resettling non-Kurds, incl Palestinians theloop.ecpr.eu/the-turkificat…

“The past decade has seen relentless Turkish expansion into Kurdistan. This encroachment has disturbing echoes of Turkey’s 1974 invasion of Northern Cyprus — a violation largely ignored by the rest of the world.” ⁦Loqman Kurdistani⁩ theloop.ecpr.eu/the-turkificat…

The Next Administration Needs a Kurdistan Policy Review meforum.org/middle-east-fo… #twitterkurds

🧩 The Kurdish self-determination remains ignored despite repression across #Kurdistan. The piece exposes the selective outrage of leftist-Islamist states—advocating for some while overlooking Kurds. On ME Forum Middle East Forum Thanks Dr M Rubin Michael Rubin 👇🏽 meforum.org/middle-east-fo…

New literature, a comprehensive view and necessary targeting ! Radpey highlights a lesser discussed "ambivalence". The anti-colonialist literature of the global left and Iranian/Turkish civilizational nationalism has, in one direction, silenced the West against the Kurdish issue.

Turkey continues to target Kurdish journalists and civilians with drones in Syria & Iraq, while the international community remains silent. Time to ask: Why do some causes get attention, but not others? meforum.org/middle-east-fo…

پوختەی وتاری د. لوقمان ڕادپەی: ستراتیژییەکانی کورد وتارێکی گرنگ و کاریگەر لە دوکتۆر لوقمان ڕادپەی، پسپۆڕی کاروباری کوردستان و ڕۆژهەڵاتی ناوەڕاست: "کورد پێویستی بە ستراتیژی جیاواز هەیە بۆ زاڵبوون بەسەر دوودڵی چەپەکان، ئیسلامییەکان و وڵاتە خۆرئاواییەکان" د. ڕادپەی لەم وتارەدا