Joris Leverink

Joris Leverink is a freelance journalist and editor for ROAR Magazine currently living in Istanbul. You can follow him on Twitter @Le_Frique.

Battle for Kobane puts Kurdish peace process on knife's edge

Kurdish protestors could hold the promise of a new chapter in their history: in which people refuse to be part of a state-constructed artificial dichotomy between the Kurds and the Turks.

By Joris Leverink

/ 12 Nov 2014

The desert's fertile soil: threats of instability still growing in the north

Claims of a French victory in Mali assume that groups aimed at an Islamic state. But western intervention in another 'front' on the war on terror yet again threatens future conflict, leaving northern populations vulnerable to the grievances that caused the insurgency in the first place.

By Joris Leverink

/ 3 Apr 2013