Bashdar Pusho Ismaeel

Bashdar Pusho Ismaeel is a writer and analyst whose primary focus and expertise is on the Kurds, Iraq, Turkey and Middle Eastern current affairs. His has had work published with the BBC, al-Sharq al-Awsat, the Washington Examiner, the Asian Times, Rudaw, the Kurdish Globe, the Epoch Times, and the Lebanese Daily Star among others.

Turkey: repeating past mistakes

Civilian Kurds bear the brunt of Turkey's indiscriminate campaign against the PKK. Only learning from history can finally end the vicious cycle of conflict and bring about a new dawn of peace.

By Bashdar Pusho Ismaeel

/ 8 Nov 2015

Kobane, transforming the regional dynamic

The fight for Kobane is not limited to a local struggle against IS militants, but reverberates politically and strategically across the region.

By Bashdar Pusho Ismaeel

/ 4 Nov 2014

Why not Kurdistan?

As the Iraqi crisis haunts the Kurds, double standards in the principle of self-determination come to the fore.

By Bashdar Pusho Ismaeel

/ 27 Oct 2014