| Minorities in the Middle East: Kurdish Communities 1918-1974 4 Volume Hardback Set Contributor(s): Destani, B. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1788066669 ISBN-13: 9781788066662 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $1767.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: June 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Middle East - General - Religion | Islam - General |
| Dewey: 297.85 |
| Physical Information: 9.3" H x 7.8" W x 11.5" (10.00 lbs) 2020 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Middle East - Religious Orientation - Islamic |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: These original dispatches, correspondence and reports record aspects of the Kurdish situation, starting from the period following the First World War. Although the Kurdish peoples are numerous, their aspirations for unity and independence have been repressed by the dominant regimes in the region, effectively minoritising the Kurds within a group of established states. Since the end of the First World War, the former Ottoman Kurdistan has been administered by five sovereign states: Turkey, Iran, Iraq, Syria, and the former Soviet Union. In 1918, Kurdish hopes for an independent Kurdistan provided for by the Treaty of Sevres (1920) were quashed by the constitution of modern Turkey, founded by Mustafa Kemal (Ataturk), and by the division of Kurdistan between Turkey, Syria and Iraq by the French and British, formalised in the Treaty of Lausanne in 1923. |