Kamran Matin

Kamran Matin is a senior lecturer in International Relations at Sussex University, UK, and the author of Recasting Iranian Modernity: International Relations and Social Change (Routledge, 2013 (pb 2015), and Kobani: What's In A Name?

Why is Turkey bombing the Kurds?

Given interlocking domestic, regional, and international developments, the AKP has launched attacks on ISIS and the PKK, the latter evidently being the main target, with four main objectives.

By Kamran Matin

/ 4 Aug 2015