Aliza Marcus

Aliza Marcus is an internationally recognized expert on Kurdish nationalism in general and the PKK in particular. She's been writing on the Kurdish problem -- as it's playing out in Turkey, Iraq and Syria -- since the late 1980s, both for major US and European media, and most recently, for leading foreign policy journals. She's an in-demand speaker when it comes to understanding what the PKK is doing and what can happen next in the Kurdish fight throughout the region. She makes it a policy to travel in the Kurdish areas regularly, visiting friends, tea shops and PKK guerrilla camps on the way. To read her latest, visit www.alizamarcus.com