This principle is exemplified by the importance of the Golan Heights and Mount Hermon. Israel cannot allow its enemies to ...

reorganized the remnants of the Ottoman army, launched the Turkish War of Independence, and reclaimed the territory that would become modern Turkey. Almost immediately, however, some Kurdish ...

In 1920, the Treaty of Sèvres, which dismantled the Ottoman Empire after World War I, recognized the Kurds’ right to “autonomy” that could lead to statehood. More than 100 years later ...

Kurds carry banners as they protest ... To understand this, we need to go back to the founding principles of the Ottoman Empire. The Ottoman Empire was ruled by Islamic Sharia.

Second, it argues that the Kurds experienced both hard and soft forms of demographic engineering from the time of the Ottoman Empire to the collapse of Saddam Hussein’s regime in 2003. Morland (2016) ...

Drought has been a threat multiplier for centuries, fueling conflict and migration from the time of the Ottoman Empire to Syria ... Despite many attempts, the Kurds have never won and kept their ...

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Ankara sees Kurdish separatism in Syria as a direct ... influence over territories that were once part of the Ottoman Empire. At its zenith, the empire of the Turks ruled vast stretches of the ...

Kurds carry banners as they protest ... To understand this, we need to go back to the founding principles of the Ottoman Empire. The Ottoman Empire was ruled by Islamic Sharia.