The Kurds Ascending: The Evolving Solution to the Kurdish Problem in Iraq and Turkey

by Michael M. Gunter and M. Gunter

Book Overview

For the first time in their modern history, the Kurds in Iraq and Turkey at least are cautiously ascending. In northern Iraq the two U.S. wars against Saddam Hussein have had the fortuitous side effect of helping to create a Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG). The KRG has become an island of democratic stability, peace, and burgeoning economic progress, as well as an autonomous part of a projected federal, democratic, post-Saddam-Hussein Iraq. If...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230112870
• ISBN13: 9780230112872
• Release Date: July 2011
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 179 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.4"