Robert Fisk
The journey between then and now passes through a familiar narrative of Turkish repression and Kurdish revolt.
Updated 15 Oct, 2016 12:36pm
THERE are moments — precious few, you understand — when you can believe in Kurdistan as part of Turkey. You hear...
Published 14 Oct, 2016 06:31am
All day and all night, the big white trucks roar along the muddy road inside the black, volcanic walls of ...
Published 12 Oct, 2016 05:30am
Turkey looks after 2.7 million Syrian refugees.
Updated 11 Oct, 2016 11:25am
Tens of thousands of soldiers, judges, prosecutors, academics have been arrested after the attempted coup of July 15.
Updated 10 Oct, 2016 09:53am
AS usual, all the warnings were there. Three Anglo-Afghan wars. Russia’s Vietnam. The Graveyard of Empires. Poppy...
Published 09 Oct, 2016 06:54am
As a Turkish friend put it to me: “Anything can happen, anything is possible.”
Updated 08 Oct, 2016 12:24pm
NOW here is a deeply contemporary story. When the French abandoned Algeria in 1962, they also betrayed the tens of...
Published 01 Oct, 2016 06:02am
Isreali shells killed 106 refugees, including children, in 1996 in a place called Qana.
Updated 30 Sep, 2016 11:47am
"Plans" for justice, freedom and dignity in the Middle East were not outlined during the debate.
Updated 29 Sep, 2016 11:41am
Statement from 200 Sunni Muslim clerics refer to the Saudi Wahhabi belief as “a dangerous deformation” of Islam.
Updated 24 Sep, 2016 11:08am
SOMETIMES, I suspect, the ability of human beings to fool themselves with their own words over the Middle East is...
Published 17 Sep, 2016 06:52am
The body of Alan Kurdi, originally reported as Aylan, has gone beyond the ‘iconic’.
Updated 03 Sep, 2016 12:03pm
Iraq's executioners have come a long way since the days when they had to yank on a hanging man’s legs to break his neck.
Updated 27 Aug, 2016 10:25am
How the West would love to believe that Turkey’s army in Syria — all 10 tanks of it — are striking at everyone’s enemy.
Updated 26 Aug, 2016 10:30am
Just as Erdogan has become pals with Putin, Turkish and Iranian FM's have been embracing in Ankara with many a promise.
Updated 20 Aug, 2016 10:09am
Since the failed coup, the cops have picked up at least 23,000 soldiers and civilians alike.
Updated 19 Aug, 2016 09:48am
It’s time we stopped lying to the people of the Middle East. And it’s time we stopped lying to ourselves.
Updated 06 Aug, 2016 11:04am
Exactly 10 years ago, four UN peacekeepers were blown to pieces in southern Lebanon by a 1,000 pound bomb.
Updated 27 Jul, 2016 09:43am
Syria’s Al-Nusra Front rebels are proving themselves tougher and far more tactically minded fighters than those of IS.
Updated 13 Jul, 2016 10:31am
