A group of PKK guerrillas taking a rest after an afternoon training, Qandil Mountains, 2011 | Picture Credits: The Amargi Recent scholarship has urged closer attention to the politics of political violence. It explores questions such as what kinds of political possibilities existed before armed struggle became the grammar of conflict, and what the absence […]

Kurdish politicians, media, and public figures attend the reception by the Chinese Consulate General in Erbil to celebrate the 76th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China Picture Credits: The Chinese Consulate General in Erbil Coined by the American neoliberal economist Milton Friedman, the “Chicago Boys” were a group of Chilean economists […]

Members of the Kurdish PKK burn their weapons as a symbolic gesture towards the Peace Process on 11th July 2025 Picture Credit: Erkan Gulbahce It has been almost a year since ‘the (resolution) process’ in Turkey between the Turkish government and the Kurdish movement resumed. A fair picture of the past 12 months may be […]

In the Middle East, there is a phobia when it comes to the idea of federalism. Speaking to Rudaw on the relationship between the Kurds and the new Syrian government,  the U.S. Special Envoy for Syria, Tom Barrack—who is also the US Ambassador to Turkey—stated, “the difficulty is, in all of these countries, what we’ve learned […]

Photo: Kurdistan Photo / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 This was a speech given by Dr. Joost Jongerden during the Launch Event of The Amargi on 20th September 2025. Introduction Food is not the first thing that comes to mind when thinking about politics. Yet the political does not always present itself explicitly as political (Day 2022). […]

In the aftermath of the WWI, a significant proportion of Kurdish elites preferred the establishment of a joint Turkish-Kurdish state over participation in the nascent Kurdish independence movement. This position can largely be explained by the circumstances and prevailing attitudes of the late Ottoman period. Kurds, particularly the Sunni majority in Turkey, as the situation […]