The Kurdish nationalist movement in the 1990s : its impact on Turkey and the Middle East
The Kurds are the fourth largest ethnic group in the Middle East, numbering between twenty and twenty five million. Approximately fifteen million live in contiguous regions of Turkey, Iraq, Iran, and Syria, an area that they call Kurdistan, yet they do not have a country of their own. Formal attempts to establish such a state were crushed by the larger and more powerful countries in the region after both world wars. But the Gulf war, the Iran-Iraq war, the collapse of
Print Book, English, ©1996
University Press of Kentucky, Lexington, Ky., ©1996
208 pages : maps ; 24 cm
9780813119991, 9780813108964, 0813119995, 0813108969
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