JSPES,
Vol. 29, No. 2 (Summer
2004 )
pp. 191-209
The Kurdish Demand for Statehood and the
Future of Iraq
Hadi Elis
The author identifies the Kurds as an historically distinct
people, who speak a non-Semitic, Indo-European language - Kurdish
- with historical traditions very different from those of the
Sunni and Shiite Iraqi Arabs, and sympathetically traces the
history of the efforts of the Kurdish community in Iraq to achieve
a degree of self-determination and autonomy/independence.
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