Tuesday, August 04, 2015

Ankara does not have a strategy towards the PKK - Al Arabiya News

Ankara does not have a strategy towards the PKK
Tuesday, 4 August 2015

Ruwayda Mustafah

The Ottomans were humiliated in the aftermath of World War I, and the Kurds were robbed of a promised homeland by Allied Powers in the treaty of Sèvres. The terms of Sèvres were vehemently opposed by the newly founded Turkish republic, and as they gained the upper hand on the bargaining table in 1922, the promise of a Kurdish state was betrayed. The consequences of which proved to be disastrous for Kurds, who are now divided into four parts.

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