Janroj Yilmaz Keles

Dr Janroj Yilmaz Keles is a research fellow at Middlesex University, with interests in migration, globalisation, the labour market, stateless diaspora, transnational political activism, ethnicity, representation, media, nationalism and ethno-nationalist conflict. His book Media, Diaspora and Conflict: Nationalism and Identity amongst Turkish and Kurdish Migrants in Europe is forthcoming.

The European Kurds rallying to fight IS

With Kurds in Iraq and Syria under attack from the Islamic State, many young Kurds in Europe have been joining resistance forces—a trend occluded by the media focus on European-born jihadists.

By Janroj Yilmaz Keles

/ 10 Dec 2014

Why an independent Kurdistan makes sense

By invading Iraq and mismanaging the aftermath, the United States precipitated Iraq's collapse as a unified state, but it did not cause it.

By Mohammed Shareef and Janroj Yilmaz Keles

/ 20 Jun 2014

Why an independent Kurdistan makes sense

By invading Iraq and mismanaging the aftermath, the United States precipitated Iraq's collapse as a unified state, but it did not cause it.

By Mohammed Shareef and Janroj Yilmaz Keles

/ 20 Jun 2014