Kurds in a Changing Middle East

The Kurds are one of the largest stateless nations in the world, numbering more than 20 million people. Their homeland lies mostly within the present-day borders of Turkey, Iraq and Iran as well as parts of Syria, Armenia and Azerbaijan. Yet until recently the ''Kurdish question'' - that is, the question of Kurdish self-determination - seemed, to many observers, dormant. It was only after the so-c...