8. Charlie FoxTrot

English - January 30, 2018 22:17 - 44 minutes - 41 MB - ★★★★★ - 14 ratings
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In this episode, Eamon speaks with Charlie, a young man from Britain who travelled to Syria to fight with the Kurds against ISIS in Raqqa.

Show Notes:

Articles on the Kurdish political experiment in Syria:

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/29/magazine/a-dream-of-utopia-in-hell.html

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2016/10/kurds-rojava-syria-isis-iraq-assad/505037/

Article on how Turkey is now attacking the Kurds in Afrin:

http://www.rudaw.net/english/opinion/30012018