Amberin Zaman
Columnist, Al Monitor
Amberin Zaman is a Public Policy Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars where she is working on Kurdish issues. She is also a columnist for the independent Turkish online news portal Diken as well as for Al Monitor, a Washington DC based online news outlet covering the Middle East. She was previously the Turkey Correspondent for The Economist.
Syria's Kurds – led by the Democratic Union Party (PYD) and its military arm the YPG – have received much attention for their role as the cornerstone of U.S.-allied local forces fighting ISIS. [...] More
For much of the past century, the Kurds have rebelled against their respective rulers only to be brutally crushed each time. The 21st century is proving less cruel. More than two decades of upheaval [...] More
