MER Article Brenner, Zionism in the Age of the Dictators Lenni Brenner, Zionism in the Age of the Dictators (Westport, CT: Lawrence Hill, 1983). Lenni Brenner has written a singular book about “the interaction between Zionism and Fascism and Nazism.” It is one of the many ironies of history that Zionism, a movement that claims to be dedicated to assuring (Author not identified) • 4 min read
Peck, The Reagan Adminstration and the Palestine Question Juliana S. Peck, The Reagan Administration and the Palestine Question: The First Thousand Days (Washington, DC: Institute of Palestine Studies, 1984). (Author not identified) • 1 min read
MER Article Armenian Genocide To The Editors: Thanks for your outstanding and timely issue, “State Terror in Turkey,” (MERIP Reports, #121, February 1984). We would like to clarify a few issues about Armenians that were raised in the article, “The Kurds in Turkey.” Martin van Bruinessen states there that “fears that the Armenia (Author not identified) • 5 min read
Rafsanjani Discusses Timing of Next Iranian Offensive Excerpts from the Friday prayer speech of Hojjat-ol-Islam Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani, the Imam’s representative to the Supreme Defense Council, and Speaker of the Majles, broadcast on Tehran radio, July 6, 1984. (Author not identified) • 5 min read
Oil and the Outcome of the Iran-Iraq War Excerpts from a report by Thomas McNaugher and William Quandt of the Brookings Institution, published on May 14, 1984 by Cambridge Energy Research Associates. These excerpts appeared in Arab Oil and Gas (Paris), June 1, 1984. (Author not identified) • 5 min read
Treatment of Prisoners of War in the Iran-Iraq Conflict Excerpts from International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) press release, May 11, 1983: Geneva — Since the outbreak of the conflict between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Republic of Iraq the highest authorities of both those states have several times confirmed their intention to honor the (Author not identified) • 2 min read
Chronicle of the Gulf War The war between Iran and Iraq is approaching its fourth anniversary. In its duration, large numbers of casualties and physical damage, this war already ranks as one of the most serious armed conflicts since World War II. Several Iranian cities and numerous towns have been destroyed, and the city of (Author not identified) • 33 min read
MER Article The Immigrant Experience in Sweden Mahmut Baksi was born twice. The first time, in Kozluk, a village in Turkish Kurdistan, in 1944. His left-wing and nationalist activities brought him into conflict with his landowning family and with the Turkish authorities. Mahmut chose to leave, and he sought political asylum in Sweden in 1971, wh (Author not identified) • 10 min read
MER Article Turkish Regime Pursues Journalists On February 29, 1984, the Ankara correspondent for United Press International, Ismet Imset, was visited just before midnight by an acquaintance from the Security Forces. The visitor warned him that he and his wife (presumably along with their three-year-old child) were about to be taken into detenti (Author not identified) • 3 min read
MER Article Keddie and Hooglund, The Iranian Revolution and the Islamic Republic Nikki R. Keddie and Eric Hooglund, eds., The Iranian Revolution and the Islamic Republic (Washington, DC: Middle East Institute, 1982). (Author not identified) • 1 min read
MER Article The Torture of Huseyin Yildirim Hüseyin Yildirim is a lawyer and a Kurd from eastern Turkey. In the fall of 1981, he was serving as defense counsel to members of the Kurdish Workers’ Party (PKK), many of whom had been arrested and subjected to torture by Turkey’s military junta. Yildirim himself was seized in October 1981, and was (Author not identified) • 7 min read
MER Article "Please Don't Use My Name" This interview was conducted by Karen Pfeifer in Ankara during November 1983. How would you like to be identified? I have been in prison five times since the 1980 coup, so please don’t use my name. I was an activist in the construction workers’ union, a shop steward in one of the most progressive (Author not identified) • 5 min read
