Analysis of Kurdish Geopolitics Past and Present

Who are the Kurds? Most of us have heard about them but
don’t know who they are. Are they a race, a religion, a
country? As we see from the following example, even
Europeans who are much closer to the Kurds still do not have
a complete understanding of the Kurds or the middle east in
general:
In the West, the left and liberal minded
people in general, especially in the Scandinavian
and Anglo-Saxon countries, have usually supported
or at least expressed some sympathy with the
struggles against both European colonialism and
U.S. policies in Vietnam. But as soon as the
problem shifted to Biafra, Southern Sudan,
Kurdistan or Eritrea - in short, whenever the
national question was raised within a third
world country - this section of the public opinion
has tended to remain silent and confuesed.1
This lack of knowledge...