A Neo-Ottoman Empire – What are Turkey’s bloody plans for the Middle East?

In the early hours of Sunday morning, the world awoke to historic news. The decades-old Assad regime had been toppled and, more than ever, a new beginning for Syria was in sight. But a democratic and free Syria is not guaranteed by the ongoing war of annexion waged by Turkey and Turkey-backed jihadists. Like a […]

War in Syria: HTS and SNA – “rebels” or jihadists?

Western media reacted with lightning speed to the renewed fighting in Syria: “rebels” or “insurgents” were entering Aleppo, wrote most newspapers such as the BBC, CNN or FAZ. Other newspapers such as Süddeutsche or Le Monde write of “jihadists” or “islamists”. A closer look is necessary. Two groups are of particular importance: 1. the terrorist […]

10 years after the Ezîdî genocide: what happened in 2014?

In August 2024, we commemorated the Şengal massacre. The invasion and atrocities of that day marked the beginning of a brutal genocidal campaign by ISIS, with the complicity of the KDP and the Turkish state, against the indigenous Ezîdî population in South Kurdistan, Northern Iraq. This latest genocide is marked as the 74th against the Ezîdî people in history.