Iraq

The ruling party’s policies regarding the conflict in Kobane and its implications for the peace process within Turkey have dominated headlines. The economic agenda was ripe with new data on the struggling health of the Turkish…
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This Joint Forum is organised by the Centre for Turkey Studies (CEFTUS) and Royal United Services Institute (RUSI). With the Turkish military poised on the border of Kobane in neighbouring Syria, this timely roundtable led by Dr. Soner…
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The author of “The Jihadis Return: ISIS and the New Sunni Uprising” as well as Independent correspondent, Patrick Cockburn’s speech in the Joint Forum ‘the Crisis in Iraq: Unexpected Alliances, Western Intervention and the Question of…
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Senior Lecturer in the Department of Defence Studies, King’s College, Bill Park’s speech in the Public Forum ‘the Crisis in Iraq: Unexpected Alliances, Western Intervention and the Question of Kurdistan’. “What I am going to say is, I hope…
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Meg Hillier MP Labour Co-operative for Hackney South and Shoreditch opening speech in the Joint Forum ‘the Crisis in Iraq: Unexpected Alliances, Western Intervention and the Question of Kurdistan’. “We live in troubled times, but troubles…
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Lord Tim Clement-Jones’ speech in the Joint Forum ‘the Crisis in Iraq: Unexpected Alliances, Western Intervention and the Question of Kurdistan’. “You have heard a great deal of a cross-party consensus this evening and I do not intend to…
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Lord Maurice Glasman’s speech in the Joint Forum ‘the Crisis in Iraq: Unexpected Alliances, Western Intervention and the Question of Kurdistan’. “I was in  Kirkuk in June and saw the black flags, but more than that you could smell the…
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Former Secretary of State for Defence Dr Liam Fox Conservative MP for North Somerset speech in the Joint Forum ‘the Crisis in Iraq: Unexpected Alliances, Western Intervention and the Question of Kurdistan’. “In the west, the understanding…
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Kurdistan Regional Government High Representative to the UK Ms Bayan Sami Abdul Rahman’s speech in the Joint Forum ‘the Crisis in Iraq: Unexpected Alliances, Western Intervention and the Question of Kurdistan’. “Isis is a threat to…
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