Minorities in the Middle East : Kurdish communities : 1918-1974  Minorities in the Middle East: Kurdish Communities: 1918-1974 

• Product Details

  Product #

  2442293Y

  Author(s)

  Destani, B.

  City

  Cambridge 

  Country

  United Kingdom 

  Language

  English 

  ISBN

  9781788066662 

  Date of Publication

  - 

  Publisher

  Cambridge Archive Editions  

  Cover Type

  Hard cover 

  Pages

  - 

  Subject

  Ethnic Studies / Ethnology

  Subject

  History, 20th-21st Centuries

   

• Product Details in Original Language

  Author

  Destani, B.

  Publisher

  Cambridge Archive Editions  

• Description

  Minorities in the Middle East: Kurdish Communities: 1918-1974 4-volume set, approximately 2,000 pages. ISBNs of this edition are 9781788066662 and 1840971606, subsequent editions use 9781840971606 (print) and 9781139963534 (e-book). 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. These original despatches, correspondence and reports chart the modern history of the Kurds in the Middle East, starting from the period just after the First World War. In 1918 Kurdish hopes for an independent Kurdistan provided for by the Treaty of Sèvres (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. The result has been almost a century of rebellion by, and repression of, the Kurdish communities.