Battle for the Mountain of the Kurds: Self-Determination and Ethnic Cleansing in Rojava

by Thomas Schmidinger

Book Overview

In early 2018, Turkey invaded the autonomous Kurdish region of Afrin in Syria and is currently threatening to ethnically cleanse the region. Between 2012 and 2018, the "Mountain of the Kurds" (Kurd Dagh) as the area has been called for centuries, had been one of the quietest regions in a country otherwise torn by civil war.

After the outbreak of the Syrian civil war in 2011, the Syrian army withdrew from the region in 2012, enabling the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1629636517
• ISBN13: 9781629636511
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: PM Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"