Iraq’s New Government Is a Temporary Truce, Not a Strategic Settlement

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  Baghdad’s latest cabinet formation reveals a state still trapped between militia power, oil dependency, Kurdish fragmentation, and the geopolitical collision between Washington and Tehran. By Dr. Pshtiwan Faraj | Sulaimani, Iraq | 13 May 2026 — Kurdish Policy Analysis After six months of political paralysis, Iraq finally has a government. Yet the formation of Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi’s cabinet may say less about political stabilization than about the inability of Iraq’s competing factions to sustain prolonged deadlock. The parliamentary approval of Zaidi’s government this week ended one of the country’s longest post-election crises in recent years. But the structure of the new cabinet — incomplete, contested, and heavily shaped by factional bargaining — reveals an Iraqi state still fundamentally unable to resolve its core strategic contradictions. The most important fact about Iraq’s new government is not that it was formed. It is that it emerged without resolving the dis...
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Turkey’s Kurdish Peace “Goodwill Phase” Ends: Pro-Kurdish Parties Demand Real Action Now

 After decades of conflict, Kurdish political actors and leftist groups say Ankara must move beyond promises and implement concrete legal and democratic reforms.


April 6 (Kurdish Policy Analysis) — Turkey’s main pro-Kurdish party and a coalition of leftist political groups declared on Monday that the “goodwill phase” of the country’s long-stalled Kurdish peace process is over, demanding immediate action from President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s government.

In a joint statement signed by 11 organizations, including the Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party), the Workers’ Party of Turkey (TİP) and the Labor Party (EMEP), the groups criticized Ankara for treating the peace initiative primarily as a security issue rather than implementing concrete political and legal reforms.

The statement outlined four urgent demands: an end to the removal of elected mayors in predominantly Kurdish regions, immediate enforcement of rulings by the Turkish Constitutional Court and the European Court of Human Rights, a halt to judicial actions targeting opposition figures, and accelerated parliamentary action on transition and democratic integration laws.

The push reflects mounting impatience among Kurdish actors as Turkey’s peace track, long overshadowed by violence and mistrust, enters a critical legislative phase. A parliamentary commission earlier this year approved a roadmap linking legal reforms to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party’s (PKK) disarmament and reintegration, aiming to conclude a conflict that has killed more than 40,000 people over four decades.

Recent calls for action intensified after jailed PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan emphasized the need for legal guarantees and reforms during this year’s Nevruz celebrations, marking a year since his call to end armed campaigns.

Meanwhile, security operations and arrests during Nevruz events have raised concerns among Kurdish parties about the government’s commitment to meaningful democratization, highlighting the delicate balance between peace initiatives and ongoing political repression.

As Turkey faces renewed domestic and international pressure to secure a lasting settlement, observers note that the government’s next steps could determine whether the decades-old conflict moves toward resolution—or remains stalled in rhetoric.

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