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January 31, 2025 Special Announcements No. 1600

MEMRI Launches Kurdish Studies Project

January 31, 2025
Special Announcements No. 1600

Kurdistan finds itself divided between four major states: Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Syria. Because of its centrality, the geopolitics of the region cannot be understood without taking into consideration the Kurdish people and their aspirations for independence. Today, the Kurdish people and their military forces are the major allies of the United States against Islamist regimes and terrorist organizations that are putting at risk Western liberties, security and interests. Against this backdrop, MEMRI has launched its Kurdish Studies Project.

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The MEMRI Kurdish Studies Project closely analyzes the importance of the Kurdish people, a pillar of the pro-U.S. bloc. Specifically, in the case of the Islamic Republic of Iran, MEMRI has written, in numerous analyses, that an understanding of Iran's periphery and the grievances of its ethnic groups, which include the Kurdish people, is essential for the U.S. in shaping a strategy for the fall of the regime in Iran without American involvement in any regional war.

The following are MEMRI reports in the Kurdish Studies Project.

 

Kurdistan Under The Islamic Republic of Iran

https://www.memri.org/reports/national-center-eastern-kurdistan-holocaust-remembrance-day-we-reflect-lessons-holocaust-it

https://www.memri.org/reports/urgent-appeal-international-intervention-case-pakhshan-azizi

https://www.memri.org/reports/us-will-not-need-be-involved-war-if-it-supports-secular-ethnic-groups-against-iranian

https://www.memri.org/reports/only-united-ethnic-groups-can-defeat-islamic-republic-iran

https://www.memri.org/tv/memri-founder-yigal-carmon-topple-iran-regime-by-supporting-non-persian-ethnic-minorities

https://www.memri.org/tv/residents-mahsa-amini-hometown-demonstrations-strike-anniversary-death-morality-police-iran

https://www.memri.org/reports/strategy-regime-change-iran-roadmap-toward-confederalism

https://www.memri.org/reports/regime-change-iran-possible-only-supporting-its-ethnic-minorities

https://www.memri.org/reports/two-years-jina-mahsa-amini-was-killed-islamic-republic-iran

https://www.memri.org/reports/kurdish-columnist-saudi-website-it-iranian-regime-ignited-fires-war-solution-topple-regime

https://www.memri.org/reports/one-year-irans-revolution-against-islamic-regime

https://www.memri.org/reports/hussein-yazdanpana-%E2%80%93-kurdish-leader-calling-toppling-islamic-republic-iran

https://www.memri.org/tv/report-iranian-kurdish-women-fighters-training-camps-weapons-civil-rights

https://www.memri.org/reports/uprising-multinational-iran

https://www.memri.org/reports/execution-kurds-islamic-republic-iran

https://www.memri.org/reports/iran-kurdish-rapper-sentenced-death-based-false-evidence

https://www.memri.org/tv/mother-saman-seydi-iranian-kurdish-rapper-sentenced-death-regime-protests-pleads-help

https://www.memri.org/tv/iran-majles-representative-kurdish-city-mahmoudzadeh-interior-minister-accountable-killing-protesters-crackdown

https://www.memri.org/tv/iranian-report-irgc-attack-iraqi-kurdistan-separatist-termites-drones-pakpour

https://www.memri.org/tv/anti-regime-protests-iran-baluchestan-province-death-basiji-curse-rule-jurisprudent

https://www.memri.org/reports/islamic-republic-iran-will-collapse-only-if-its-ethnic-minorities-are-supported

https://www.memri.org/reports/roadmap-towards-confederalism-future-iran

https://www.memri.org/reports/male-and-female-students-university-kurdistan-sanandaj-iran-dance-together-and-chant-woman

https://www.memri.org/tv/male-female-students-university-kurdistan-dance-chant-woman-life-freedom

https://www.memri.org/tv/iran-protests-jina-mahsa-amini-mark-fourty-days-death-we-will-topple-khamenei-bloody-uprising

https://www.memri.org/reports/40-days-without-jina-revolution-continues-her-name

https://www.memri.org/reports/revolt-iran-ethnic-minorities-led-uprising

https://www.memri.org/reports/sanandaj-leads-battle-freedom-%E2%80%93-leningrad-eastern-kurdistan-besieged-islamic-republic-iran

https://www.memri.org/reports/give-her-back-her-kurdish-name-jina-amini

https://www.memri.org/reports/al-arabiya-tv-report-komalah-%E2%80%93-kurdish-guerrilla-leftist-group-fighting-iran

https://www.memri.org/tv/training-and-activity-kurdish-komalah-guerilla-leftist-organization-fighting-iranian-regime

https://www.memri.org/reports/iranian-supremacy-manifesto-greater-iran-hezbollah-iran-secretary-general-lays-out-plan

https://www.memri.org/reports/lebanese-writer-iran-seeks-intimidate-iraqs-sunnis-kurds-embarrass-iraqi-security-forces

https://www.memri.org/tv/iranian-kurdish-politician-mohtadi-want-iran-have-peace-with-israel-america-arabs-respectable-member-world

https://www.memri.org/tv/report-anti-iranian-kurdish-fighters-always-prepared-hope-for-referendum-iranian-kurdistan

https://www.memri.org/tv/iranian-kurdish-leader-mustafa-hijri-calls-secular-democratic-federal-iran-says-we-have-been

Kurdistan Region in Syria

https://www.memri.org/reports/perception-game-syria

https://www.memri.org/tv/fmr-hizbullah-sec-gen-subhi-tufayli-syria-cut-head-snake-kurds

https://www.memri.org/reports/syria-after-revolution-now-comes-hard-part

https://www.memri.org/jttm/syrian-rebel-operations-room-including-hayat-tahrir-al-sham-hts-offers-security-defecting

https://www.memri.org/tv/video-show-islamist-militants-capture-female-kurdish-fighters-syria

https://www.memri.org/reports/russian-president-putin-kurdish-problem-needs-be-solved

https://www.memri.org/reports/arabs-protest-decision-kurdish-autonomous-administration-northeastern-syria-ban-niqab

https://www.memri.org/reports/syria-persecutes-members-outlawed-kurdish-opposition-party

https://www.memri.org/reports/iraqi-president-talabani-criticizes-syrian-president-assad-supporting-turkish-military

https://www.memri.org/tv/iraqi-president-jalal-talabani-criticizes-syrian-president-bashar-al-assad-supporting-turkish

https://www.memri.org/reports/golan-druze-resident-denaturalized-syrian-kurds-deserve-syrian-citizenship-more-i-do

https://www.memri.org/tv/kurdish-syrian-mp-omar-ose-israel-us-bases-gulf-will-be-targeted-iranian-and-syrian-missiles

https://www.memri.org/tv/women-syrian-kurdish-militia-wed-rather-kill-ourselves-surrender

https://www.memri.org/reports/egyptian-intellectual-if-i-were-syrian-kurd

https://www.memri.org/tv/syrian-opposition-figure-ata-kamel-ata-kurds-are-hereditarily-stupid-they-should-be-driven-out

https://www.memri.org/tv/fsa-members-mutilate-corpses-kurdish-soldiers

Kurdistan-Turkey Relations

https://www.memri.org/reports/columnist-turkish-fethullah-g%C3%BClen-community-owned-daily-zaman-calls-investigating-whether

https://www.memri.org/reports/kurdish-political-analyst-sheikh-al-qaradhawi-backing-turkish-prime-minister-erdogans-crimes

https://www.memri.org/reports/all-eyes-kurdistan-%E2%80%93-turkish-policy-annihilation-kurds-and-colonization-occupied-kurdish

https://www.memri.org/reports/pkk-military-wing-commander-turkey-may-become-exact-replica-iraq

https://www.memri.org/tv/pkk-leader-murat-karayilan-if-turkey-insists-military-resolution-kurdish-problem-we-are-ready

https://www.memri.org/reports/turkeys-akp-govt-appears-support-its-jihadi-neighbors-south-%E2%80%93-orders-turkish-military-syrian

https://www.memri.org/tv/iran-ambassador-iraj-masjedi-turkey-must-withdraw-its-forces-from-iraq-kurdistan

https://www.memri.org/tv/archival-turkish-soldiers-decapitate-falles-kurdish-fighters

https://www.memri.org/reports/kurdish-writer-his-decision-allow-turkey-operate-syria-against-kurds-trump-avaricious

https://www.memri.org/tv/kurd-academic-sarbast-nabi-turkish-army-coming-fight-kurdish-people-erdogan-demographic-engieering-kurdistan

https://www.memri.org/tv/sdf-commander-mazloum-abdi-turkey-orchestrated-isis-attacks-kurdish-land-occupation

https://www.memri.org/reports/turkish-journalist-qassem-soleimani-was-enemy-turkey-discouraged-pkk-making-peace-turkish

https://www.memri.org/tv/turkish-president-erdogan-northern-syria-suitable-for-arabs-not-kurds

Kurdistan Region of Iraq

https://www.memri.org/tv/kurdish-president-barzani-unity-iraq-has-failed-kurdish-people-should-decide-about-statehood

https://www.memri.org/reports/kurdish-sunni-tensions-rise-against-backdrop-ongoing-koran-desecration-kurds-iraq-and-norway

https://www.memri.org/reports/kurdish-regional-government-moves-ahead-oil-export-%E2%80%93difficulties-remain

https://www.memri.org/reports/president-iraqi-kurdistan-massoud-barazani-kurds-will-not-be-party-civil-war-iraq-when-we

https://www.memri.org/tv/president-iraqi-kurdistan-massoud-barazani-kurds-will-not-be-party-civil-war-iraq-when-we-declare

https://www.memri.org/tv/syrian-kurdish-political-activist-dr-alan-othman-bath-party-syria-and-iraq-spitting-image-german

https://www.memri.org/tv/al-arabiya-tv-report-large-scale-smuggling-oil-iraqi-kurdistan-iran

https://www.memri.org/tv/kurdish-and-arab-writers-debate-possibility-independent-kurdish-state

https://www.memri.org/reports/wake-massacre-yazidis-iraqi-kurdish-liberal-hussein-sinjari-minorities-iraq-and-middle-east

https://www.memri.org/tv/president-iraqi-kurdistan-province-masoud-al-barazani-threatens-turkey-not-interfere-issue-kirkuk

https://www.memri.org/reports/iraqi-kurdistan-province-president-masoud-al-barazani-warns-turkey-not-interfere-over-kirkuk

https://www.memri.org/reports/kurdish-leader-fouad-masoum-asserts-kirkuk-will-become-part-iraqi-kurdistan-only-consent-its

https://www.memri.org/reports/kurdistan-%E2%80%93-quest-statehood

https://www.memri.org/reports/oil-food-programme-closing-cycle

https://www.memri.org/reports/opportunity-kurdistan-new-model-middle-east-democracy

https://www.memri.org/reports/syrian-journalist-praises-iraqs-election-kurdish-president

https://www.memri.org/reports/kirkuk-between-kurdish-separatism-and-iraqi-federalism

https://www.memri.org/tv/pro-saddam-egyptian-journalist-justifies-gassing-kurds

https://www.memri.org/reports/iraqi-kurds-crossroads

https://www.memri.org/reports/between-baghdad-and-erbil-some-outstanding-challenges-government-iraqi-prime-minister-al

https://www.memri.org/tv/-shiite-iraqi-militia-leader-khazali-threat-independent-kurdistan-occupation

https://www.memri.org/tv/kurdistani-president-barzani-agreement-kurdistan-baghdad-international-guarantees

https://www.memri.org/reports/kurdish-president-barzani-sykes-picot-agreement-has-failed-it-time-establish-kurdish-state

https://www.memri.org/tv/iraqi-shiite-militia-leader-qais-al-khazali-kurdish-leaders-are-leeches-sucking-blood-iraq

https://www.memri.org/reports/palestinian-reactions-to-kurdistan-referendum

https://www.memri.org/reports/arab-opposition-to-kurdish-state-hypocritical

https://www.memri.org/tv/iraqi-shiite-militia-leader-referendum-kurdistan-independence-armed-confrontation

https://www.memri.org/tv/former-iraqi-mp-ayad-jamal-al-din-trump-fool-and-liar-saudi-arabia-will-oppose-kurdish-state

https://www.memri.org/tv/peshmerga-general-sirwan-barzani-unless-baghdad-changes-its-conduct-after-liberation-mosul

https://www.memri.org/tv/president-kurdistan-massoud-barazani-it-time-reorganize-region

https://www.memri.org/reports/jordanian-reformist-shaker-al-nabulsi-kurdish-holocaust-and-crisis-conscience

https://www.memri.org/tv/young-kurds-debate-independence-nepotism-and-assyrians-kurdistan

The Kurdish Fight Against ISIS

https://www.memri.org/tv/fmr-kurdish-president-barzani-if-coalition-withdraws-from-iraq-isis-will-come-back

https://www.memri.org/tv/yazidi-activist-and-survivor-isis-captivity-nadia-murad-yazidis-will-not-return-sinjar-without

https://www.memri.org/tv/women-burn-burkas-celebrating-liberation-manbij-isis

https://www.memri.org/tv/iraqi-mp-vian-dakhil-only-way-save-kidnapped-yazidi-women-buy-them-isis

https://www.memri.org/tv/tv-report-kurdish-museum-dedicated-isis-weaponry

https://www.memri.org/reports/eighth-anniversary-kurdish-soldiers-liberation-christian-towns-kurdistan-region-iraq-isis

https://www.memri.org/tv/hollywood-actor-michael-enright-joins-kurdish-forces-isis-stain-humanity-im-focused-killing-them

https://www.memri.org/tv/yazidi-artist-ammar-salim-documents-isis-massacres

https://www.memri.org/tv/kurdish-peshmerga-prisoners-paraded-cages-new-isis-video

https://www.memri.org/tv/warning-extremely-graphic-isis-beheads-kurd-fighter-threatens-behead-obama-white-house

https://www.memri.org/jttm/isis-beheads-kurdish-fighter-threatens-behead-obama-kurdistan-president-barzani-detonate-car

https://www.memri.org/tv/report-kurdish-women-fighting-isis-kobani-syria

https://www.memri.org/tv/weapons-dropped-us-kurdish-fighters-fall-hands-isis

https://www.memri.org/tv/kurdish-tv-parody-isis

https://www.memri.org/tv/german-nationals-join-kurdish-army-fighting-isis

https://www.memri.org/tv/german-nationals-join-kurdish-army-fighting-isis

https://www.memri.org/tv/yazidi-refugees-undergo-military-training-order-fight-isis

https://www.memri.org/jttm/official-statement-iss-ninawa-province-declares-we-have-seized-many-areas-kurdish-peshmerga

https://www.memri.org/tv/tv-report-yazidi-women-joining-combat-against-isis

https://www.memri.org/tv/children-vow-slaughter-kurds-isis-video-depicting-eid-al-adha-celebrations-mosul

https://www.memri.org/tv/tv-report-yazidi-female-brigade-fighting-isis

https://www.memri.org/tv/syrian-democratic-forces-mustafa-bali-american-withdrawal-shock-void-isis-turkey

Kurdistan-U.S. Relations

https://www.memri.org/tv/fmr-kurdish-president-masoud-barzani-american-withdrawal-peace-israel

https://www.memri.org/reports/al-hayat-editor-yazidis-mosul-christians-can-hold-obama-responsible-their-suffering

https://www.memri.org/tv/uk-journalist-abdel-bari-atwan-america-betrayed-kurds-defeated

Kurdistan-Israel Relations

https://www.memri.org/tv/israeli-fm-gideon-saar-appointment-speech-natural-alliances-minorities-region

https://www.memri.org/reports/kurdish-iraqi-writer-palestinians-should-extend-friendly-hand-israel

https://www.memri.org/reports/kurdish-writer-hamas-abduction-civilians-was-act-terror-harmed-palestinian-cause

https://www.memri.org/tv/iraq-sunni-tribal-leader-wissam-hardan-join-abraham-accords-full-ties-isreal

https://www.memri.org/tv/iraq-kurdistan-israel-normalization-abraham-accords-sahar-tai

https://www.memri.org/tv/berlin-based-syrian-kurdish-academic-jian-omar-criticize-pan-arab-islamist-political-parties-waste-time-israel-advance

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