Understanding Global Issues

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The Kurds: Caught between nations

With 20-30 million people divided between four rival countries in the Middle East, the Kurds have long been a destabilising factor in a mountainous region which is rich in water, oil and minerals. Kurds have suffered oppression for centuries, yet Kurdish nationalism keeps growing. What are the roots of the Kurdish problem and what hope is there for an independent Kurdistan?

Published: January 1994 ISBN: 0850489431

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