A People Without a Country: The Kurds and Kurdistan
Publisher: Interlink Publishing Group, Incorporated

His writings are widely syndicated in both Kurdish and Arabic in Iraqi papers and websites. €We have no minorities in Turkey,” declares the district governor of Varto. But beginning Discipline is what distinguishes the People's Protection Units (YPG) from the mainly Arab rebel groups the Kurdish militia is fighting in northeastern Syria. May 21, 2014 - By the time Paul Bremer, head of the Coalition Provisional Authority left in 2004, 100 regulations and orders were implemented that paved the way for opening the country to free trade and a large privatization campaign. There are always stories to tell, oblique or incomplete as they may be. Traveling across “We see no difference between the rebels and the government. Jan 20, 2014 - If the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) once again refuses to pay the oil revenue owed then the only available option left to Baghdad would be to halt all state spending, which amounts to about 17% of the whole country, in the region. Soon after the implementation of these policies, However, the Kurdish region that had already implemented its governing structure since the establishment of a no-fly zone in 1991 remained relatively safe. May 23, 2014 - Iraq's self-ruled northern Kurdish region said Friday that it has made its first oil shipment through its own pipeline to the international market, bypassing the central government in Baghdad, which insists that it has the sole Baghdad has warned that it will not give the Kurds their 17 percent share in the national budget and will sue the buyers if they go ahead with the exports without central government approval. Jan 1, 2014 - Under those circumstances, the recent appearance of a series of fiction and nonfiction works which in different ways try to confront the real history of the country's mainly Kurdish southeastern regions has come as a surprise. May 12, 2014 - He is the author of “The Two Gulf Wars: The Kurds on the World Stage, 1979-1992”, published in People Without a Country (Chaliand, Ed., 1993). Slowly, important pieces of the puzzle start to emerge. Fifty years ago the Syrian government stripped citizenship rights from 20 percent of its Kurdish minority-Kurds make up about 10 percent of that country's population-creating between 300,000 to 500,000 stateless people. This news was And I understand why some people want to have an unpersonal centralized administration who talks a lot about violations of Iraqui oil and at the end nothing comes out of those accusations. Aug 30, 2013 - For almost a century, the Kurds-one of the world's largest ethnic groups without its own state-have been deceived and double-crossed, their language and culture suppressed, their villages burned and bombed, and their people scattered. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.". Sep 30, 2013 - Since the Syrian government withdrew from the country's Kurdish-majority northeast in July 2012, the long-oppressed Kurds have built an independent enclave with their own governing institutions.