On the Middle East with Amberin Zaman

207 Episodes

1. Free Turkish Press editor Yavuz Baydar says Erdogan will win local elections, crush Kurds and strut on world stage

   Published: 6/29/2023
2. Iranian academic Arash Azizi says slain Quds Force Commander Qassem Soleimani looms as large in death as in life

   Published: 6/15/2023
3. Turkey scholar Howard Eissenstat on the dynamics of Erdogan's enduring success

   Published: 5/30/2023
4. Syrian Kurdish leader Salih Muslim says Assad's return to Arab League is welcome, but won't amount to much

   Published: 5/18/2023
5. Pro-Kurdish Green Left Party candidate Ceylan Akca says Turkish security forces are terrorizing Kurdish voters but will fail

   Published: 5/8/2023
6. Former Sudan advisor to US government Cameron Hudson says US sanctions on Sudan's rival generals could have averted conflict

   Published: 4/21/2023
7. Iraq expert Bilal Wahab says Turkey wants guarantees from Baghdad before allowing Kurdish oil exports to resume

   Published: 4/12/2023
8. Turkey analyst Merve Tahiroglu says Kurds will back opposition presidential candidate Kemal Kilicdaroglu to unseat Erdogan in first round

   Published: 3/23/2023
9. Kurdish academic Mashuq Kurt says Erdogan's electoral alliance with Turkish Hizbullah offshoot a risky step

   Published: 3/16/2023
10. Turkish commentator Cengiz Candar says Turkey's opposition will win elections overwhelmingly with Kurdish backing

    Published: 3/10/2023
11. Tunisia expert Monica Marks warns Tunisia's march towards dictatorship could turn bloody

    Published: 3/2/2023
12. Iran expert John Raine says Iranian hardliners want a military pact with Russia for the survival of the Islamic regime

    Published: 2/22/2023
13. Middle East Institute Turkey director Gonul Tol says one man rule, corruption increased deaths in killer earthquakes

    Published: 2/10/2023
14. Crisis Group South Caucasus Analyst Olesya Vartanyan warns renewed conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan would impact broader region

    Published: 2/2/2023
15. The Economist's Turkey Correspondent Piotr Zalewski says don't give up on Turkey's battered democracy quite yet

    Published: 1/30/2023
16. UK's Syria envoy warns normalizing relations with Assad regime will undermine efforts for justice and accountability

    Published: 1/13/2023
17. Syrian commentator Ibrahim Hamidi says Kurds have surpassed Jihadis as Assad regime's greatest enemy

    Published: 1/5/2023
18. Investigative journalist Guillaume Perrier says 'you cannot tell Kurds Turkey was not involved in Paris murders'

    Published: 12/29/2022
19. French academic Fabrice Balanche says Turkish offensive against Syrian Kurds "a matter of time"

    Published: 12/13/2022
20. American aid volunteer David Eubank says Syrian Kurds feel even more betrayed by US in wake of Turkey's most recent attacks

    Published: 11/28/2022