Rutgers University Press (2013)
Kurdistan, “the land of the Kurds,” is a country that might have been and that might yet be. There is no politically recognized independent state called Kurdistan, but Kurdistan is socially recognized by millions of people as their ethnic homeland. Arcing across portions of four countries, it is a mainly contiguous area that includes much of eastern Anatolia.
Kurds constitute the fourth-largest ethnolinguistic group in the Middle East region. Their homeland was partitioned following World War I. In each state in and near the historic Kurdish homeland, people belonging to an ethnic group whose identity is closely linked to the idealized nation state has mistreated Kurdish people: Arabs in Iraq and Syria, Turks in Turkey, and Persians in Iran.
Download Book
