Neocolonial geographies of occupation: portrait of Diyarbakir
(WorldNews Africa)

The terms military zone and death zone trace the colonial dynamics which have compartmentalized the city, in order to unpack further the claim that Kurdistan is a colony. A street in Diyarbakir. Author`s photo collection. The situation of the Kurds in a drastically changing Middle East has received little attention in academia and less in the media despite their growing impact on regional and international politics. The biggest stateless people living in the Middle East are on the verge of a new status, not only in Iraqi Kurdistan, where a referendum for independence takes place on September 25, 2017, but also in Syria and Turkey. In Syria, Kurds have fought an organised and effective...