The Kurds a Nation of Genocides

The Kurds a Nation of Genocides

Kristiina Koivunen

Apec Förlag

The target of this book is ta describe the history of genocide during the twentieth century in North and South Kurdistan, an area ruled by the Ottomans from 1514 to 1923, but nowadays the lraqi and Turkish parts of Kurdistan. The book consists of three main historical themes. First I describe how the Ottoman Kurdistan was divided after the First World War (1914-1918) between Turkey and Iraq, and the Turks and Arabs started forced assimilation of the Kurds. West Kurdistan (the Syrian part of Kurdistan) although also part of the Ottoman state, is outside this research ...