Current Edition About Subscribe The Jerusalem Center

Daily Alert Archive

Every Daily Alert Since 2002

Search

Search more than 90,000 news items by topic, author, or source.
Use " " to search for multiple words and phrases.

Trending Topics

April 4, 2014       Share:    

Source: http://www.jewishpolicycenter.org/5213/kurdistan-us-recognition

America Must Recognize Kurdistan

(inFocus Quarterly-Jewish Policy Center) Sherkoh Abbas, Robert Sklaroff and Joseph Puder - As the civil war in Syria rages on, America should support the newborn, self-ruling non-Islamist entity - Kurdistan - as a model for a coalition Syrian government. Kurds have unsuccessfully sought freedom and self-determination since dissolution of the Ottoman Empire after World War I. Kurds were promised independence in the Treaty of Sevres (1920), but the treaty was supplanted by the Treaty of Lausanne (1923), which was silent on the subject of Kurdish rights.

View the full edition of Daily Alert

Back to Archive

Subscribe to Daily Alert: