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SUMMARY:After-ISIS: the future of Raqqa and Northern Syria - Guney Yildiz\
 , University of Cambridge
DTSTART:20180109T180000Z
DTEND:20180109T190000Z
UID:TALK96349@talks.cam.ac.uk
CONTACT:Kaitlin Ball
DESCRIPTION:The Islamic State was defeated in mid-October\, by the Syrian 
 Democratic Forces\, a Kurdish-Arab alliance in Raqqa\, the de-facto capita
 l of its Caliphate\, significantly limiting the group's capabilities. With
  the capture of Raqqa\, the Syrian conflict entered into a new\, post-IS p
 hase\, during which the Russian and Iranian-backed Bashar Assad government
  and the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Council\, which is backed militaril
 y by the US\, would likely be the two main actors in the country.  Recentl
 y back from a three-week research trip to several cities in Northern Syria
 \, with a particular focus on non-Kurdish majority areas under Kurdish-led
  administrations\, Guney Yildiz will talk about post-IS stabilisation\, in
 ternational dynamics\, the possibility of inter-ethnic alliance and the go
 vernance mechanisms being put in place by the Syrian Democratic Council th
 roughout Northern Syria. \n\nGuney Yildiz is a researcher and analyst on T
 urkey\, Syria and the Kurdish affairs. He is currently a Visiting Fellow w
 ith the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) focusing mostly on dy
 namics of Kurdish politics in Northern Syria and Iraqi Kurdistan. He also 
 advised British politicians at the Foreign Affairs Select Committee of the
  UK Parliament as a Special Adviser on Turkey. As a journalist with the BB
 C\, he broke numerous top UK and international stories that have been pick
 ed up by other domestic and international broadcasters. He holds a master'
 s degree from the London School of Economics and pursues a PhD on armed no
 n-state actors in the Middle East at the Sociology Department of the Unive
 rsity of Cambridge. \n\n
LOCATION:Upper Hall\, Peterhouse
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