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This was a good book. Having spent some time in Kurdistan (Iraq) I found it quite interesting. While there I did not get a clear picture of the fact that the Turks were fighting the PKK and the occasionally crossing into Iraq. It was hard enough to figure out why Barzani and Talabani were fighting at one time and then finally decided to stop and divide the spoils. I worked a bit with the peshmerga and the special police. They were indeed a motivated group.
It was an especially timely book for me to read as now Erdogan is especially concerned about the Syrian Kurds. My Iraqi friends told me about a year ago how Turkey was letting the IS fighters into Syria. Now Erdogan is concerned about the Kurds displacing the Arabs and Turkomans. This book put a lot of the situation in historic perspective.
- File Size: 1367 KB
- Print Length: 364 pages
- Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0814757111
- Publisher: NYU Press (August 1, 2007)
- Publication Date: August 1, 2007
- Sold by: Amazon.com Services LLC
- Language: English
- ASIN: B010THGA70
- Text-to-Speech:
Enabled
- Word Wise: Enabled
- Lending: Not Enabled
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Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
#794,546 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
- #165 in History of Turkey & the Ottoman empire
- #431 in Revolutionary History
- #418 in Political Freedom (Kindle Store)
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