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.

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