BATTLE FOR THE MOUNTAIN OF THE KURDS: self -determination and ethnic cleansing in rojava

BATTLE FOR THE MOUNTAIN OF THE KURDS: self -determination and ethnic cleansing in rojava

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In early 2018, Turkey invaded the autonomous Kurdish region of Afrin in Syria and is currently threatening to ethnically cleanse the region. Between 2012–2018, the “Mountain of the Kurds” (Kurd Dagh) had been one of the quietest regions in a country otherwise torn by civil war. After the outbreak of the Syrian civil war in 2011, the Syrian army withdrew from the region, enabling the Party of Democratic Union (PYD), the Syrian sister party of Abdullah Öcalan’s outlawed Turkish Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), to introduce a Kurdish self-administration and then, in 2014 to establish the Canton Afrin as one of the three parts of the heavily Kurdish Democratic Federation of North-Syria, or Rojava. This self-administration, which had seen multi-party elections in 2017, included autonomy for a number of ethnic and religious groups, and provided a safe haven for up to 300,000 Syrian refugees, is now at risk of being annihilated. In this volume, Schmidinger provides a comprehensive history of the region and gives inhabitants of a variety of ethnicities, religions, political orientations, and walks of life the opportunity to speak for themselves. As things stand now, the book might seem to be in danger of becoming an epitaph for the “Mountain of the Kurds,” but as the author writes, “the battle for the Mountain of the Kurds is far from over yet.”
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Name of the Author
Andrej
Grubacic
Michael
Schiffmann
Schmidinger
Thomas
Language
English
ISBN
9781629636559
Release date
2019

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BATTLE FOR THE MOUNTAIN OF THE KURDS: self -determination and ethnic cleansing in rojava

In early 2018, Turkey invaded the autonomous Kurdish region of Afrin in Syria and is currently threatening to ethnically cleanse the region. Between 2012–201...

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