Matt Broomfield

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  • Jul 23, 2025
    When the guerrilla fighters of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) began their armed struggle back in 1984, the Cold War was in its death throes. Ronald Reagan was trying to...
  • May 14, 2025
    In 1978, a handful of Kurdish political science students gathered in an obscure village in Turkey’s southeast, together founding a militant Marxist-Leninist party. A...
  • Feb 28, 2025
    From the moment I cross the rickety pontoon bridge from Iraq into Syrian Kurdistan, I feel a deep sense of isolation.