Wladimir van Wilgenburg
PKK and Islamic Gulen Movement Clash in Turkey
There has recently been increased antagonism between the PKK and the Gulen movement, as a result of the Gulen movement trying to weaken the PKK and take over its support base.
Dutch Socialist Party Gives 200,000 Euros for Halabja Monument
The Socialist Party (SP) in the city council of The Hague, the Netherlands, has given 200,000 euros of municipal compensation money back to the council and asked the municipality to use this money for a monument to the victims of the 1988 chemical attack in Kurdistan’s Halabja city....
Wikileaks Reveals Kurdish Secrets
Kurdish affairs such as Kirkuk and drug trafficking are under the international spotlight with the recent release of hundreds of thousands of confidential US documents by whistle-blowing Wikileaks...
Wikileaks: US Saw Kurd-On-Kurd Violence as Greatest Threat to Kirkuk’s Stability
A high-ranking US military official in Iraq has threatened to end its support of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK)’s peshmerga forces if the PUK, led by Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, does not stop intimidating members of the Kurdish army and security forces who are supporters of the opposition party, Gorran....Author info
Wladimir van Wilgenburg
Wladimir van Wilgenburg studied the BA International Relations and
Political History and also finished the two minors Journalism and New
Media and Conflict Studies. This year he is busy with his masters
degree in Conflict Studies and Human Rights at the University of
Utrecht. He has been working as a freelance journalist and analyst for
Turkish, Kurdish, Dutch and American institutes and media outlets.
Recently he participated in a project of the NGO Pax Christi about the
future of the Dutch military.