Kurds in the New Middle East

August 22, 2012 Topic: Civil SocietyCounterinsurgencyDemocracyDemographyDefenseFailed StatesPeacekeepingRising PowersTerrorism Region: IraqSyriaTurkey

Kurds in the New Middle East

The real fear isn’t that Syria will be divided. It’s that Kurds are uniting.

by Aliza Marcus

Aliza Marcus is a writer in Washington, DC, and the author of Blood and Belief: The PKK and the Kurdish Fight for Independence.

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