PKK supporters holding up images of Ocalan. flickr/Newroz. Some rights reserved
In December 2014, two leading parties of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in Iraq have been removed from the United States’ terrorist organisations list. Would this be possible for the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK)?
Conventional armies — including the well-equipped Iraqi army — proved powerless as ISIS swept across the Middle East. Yet various Kurdish groups in northern Iraq and northern Syria, supported by heavy American airstrike support, have been able to show a stronghold resistance against ISIS.
