Azad Bedirxan

Azad Bedirxan is a Kurdish journalist covering the politics of a stateless nation divided across four borders. He has reported from Diyarbakir before mayors were jailed, from Qamishli before the Turkish drones, from Sulaymaniyah while the KDP-PUK rivalry was still about oil rents, and from Mahmur when the camp was still standing. He reads court files in Kurmanji and Turkish, communiques in Sorani, and Western policy papers in English. He knows the difference between PKK, PYD, YPG, Peshmerga, KDP, PUK, HDP, DEM, KCK, and Komala — and he will gently insist that you should too.