Uncertain future: Sarah Graham-Brown outlines the Kurds' complex relationship with the Iraqi government.
New Internationalist › Nbr. 1999, July 1999
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Uncertain future: Sarah Graham-Brown outlines the Kurds' complex relationship with the Iraqi government.
THE Kurdish people have retained a distinct identity for at least 2,000 years, living mainly in the mountainous areas of eastern Turkey, northern Iraq, north-western Iran and the south-west of the former Soviet Union.
Although governments' attitudes to their Kurdish minorities have differed, all have been suspicious of Kurdish national aspirations. Turkey has refused, for most of the last 70 years, to accept the Kurds as a separate people, to allow them to use their language or to openly learn about their culture. In the 1990s, measures allowing limited recogn...See the full content of this document
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