Kurds at a Crossroads

By: William Park

It has long been accepted wisdom among the Kurds that they have 'no friends but the mountains'. Having endured for centuries by variously resisting and accommodating with a string of foreign empires, and finding themselves divided in the modern era between four separate nation states, the Kurds have seen attempts at establishing their own state repeatedly, and often brutally, suppressed. Now, however, recent developments in the region have seen 'the Kurdish issue' placed firmly on the global political agenda. Kurds at the Crossroads argues that this issue will increasingly preoccupy the world's diplomats and commentators, and shows how the region's state boundaries and political arrangements are coming under renewed challenge from a more insistent Kurdish nationalism that it will prove impossible to ignore, and which could yet develop as one of the more enduring outcomes of the recent turmoil in the Middle East. Based on extensive interviews and research in Turkey, Iraq and the US, Kurds at the Crossroads provides a comprehensive and cogent analysis of the Kurd's progress towards self-determination, and particularly of the role played by Turkey and the US in these events, as well as assessing the long term implications of these developments both for the Middle East and for the international order.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 178360395X
• ISBN13: 9781783603954
• Release Date: December 2020
• Publisher: Zed Books, Limited
• Dimensions: 5.6" x 8.8"