The Kurds in Iran, Iraq and Syria

[AdamG]

A Turkish perspective, as expressed in a movie.

Breath (Turkish: Nefes: Vatan Sağolsun, literally Breath: Long Live the Homeland) is a 2009 Turkish drama film directed by Levent Semerci. The film, which tells the story of 40 soldiers in charge of protecting a relay station near the Iraqi border in southeastern Turkey, was adapted from the short stories Tales from the Southeast and Ground Minus Zero by Hakan Evrensel and is, according to Hürriyet Daily News reviewer Emine Yıldırım, the first Turkish film that tackles, through an authentic perspective and convincing realness, the contemporary situation of the Turkish army and its long battle with the terrorist Kurdistan Workers' Party.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsonHwcq9Lc

[davidbfpo]

An interesting article on how radicalised Kurds from Iran are emerging as a regional threat and within Iran. Note there is an earlier post on this subject by the same author.
Link:https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/ori...ihadists.html?

[davidbfpo]

An ICSR (Kings College) report:

While the so-called Islamic State’s ‘caliphate’ was in ruins by the summer of 2017, Kurdish fortunes appeared to be on the ascent. Nevertheless, little over a year after the supposed ‘fall of the caliphate’, both Syrian and Iraqi Kurdish aspirations have been severely tested.
Rather than delivering the desired popular mandate needed to negotiate independence, the Iraqi Kurdish independence referendum of 25 September 2017 backfired. The military and political power that the Syrian Kurds had gained while fighting ISIS has been endangered, whether due to Turkish armed intervention or the possibility that they could lose the U.S.-led coalition’s backing.
In this report, ICSR Research Fellow John Holland-McCowan seeks to highlight some of the key developments for the Kurds of Iraq and Syria as the so-called Islamic State has declined over the past year, as well as hypothesise what may lie ahead.

Link:https://icsr.info/2018/10/10/the-kur...raq-and-syria/