Springtime of Nations

An irreverent, informative blog about separatism, autonomy, indigenous rights, interethnic conflict, balkanization, and micronationalism—with maps & flags in every article!

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Sunday, April 27, 2014

Signs of Kurdish Spring: Syrian Border Trench, Barzani Statements, U.S. Push to Delist P.K.K. All Point to Eventual Independence

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The “Kurdish Spring” in Turkey two years ago never gathered the same momentum toward change at the top as its namesake, the “ Arab Spri...

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Sunday, February 9, 2014

Kurds Join Hands with Turkmens & Christians in Syria; Iraq Pits Ethnicities against Each Other in North

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Things are getting complicated in Kurdistan . In Rojava (“ Western Kurdistan ”), the newly declared autonomous region in northern Syria...

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Sunday, January 12, 2014

Middle East Update: Al-Sham Islamic State Takes Form, West Kurdish Constitution, New Rights for Christians, Turkmens

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The redrawing of the map of the Middle East continued apace this past week, following the takeover of Fallujah and part of Ramadi in west...

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Thursday, November 21, 2013

Syrian Kurds’ Declaration of Autonomous “Rojava” Scorned by Turkey, Assad—Even by Iraqi Kurds

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The Kurdish people of northern Syria , after declaring an autonomous region last year in liberated pockets and towns near the border wit...

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Chris Roth: Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States; Chris Roth is a social-cultural and linguistic anthropologist with an interest in the symbolic politics of nationalism and ethnicity. He has worked extensively with indigenous groups in northern British Columbia and southeast Alaska and is the author of an ethnography of the Tsimshian Nation.

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