Iraqi Kurds may have long dreamed of founding their own state, but the independence referendum set for Monday, September 25, has also exposed divisions between their autonomous region’s main cities.
Turkey aims at Islamic State, but Kurds say they are real target
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12, 2015
Just two months ago, Kurds took to the streets of Diyarbakir to celebrate the pro-Kurdish HDP's election breakthrough with 13.1 per cent of the vote. Today the city, which is home to Turkey's largest Kurdish community, is plagued by fears of a civil war.
The Turkish president, a self-styled latter-day sultan and supporter of the Palestinian cause, has renewed a war against a stateless minority within its borders: the Kurds.