The battle for the mountain of the Kurds : self-determination and ethnic cleansing in the Afrin Region of Rojava

Schmidinger, Thomas, 1974- author.

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"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) 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, enabling the Party of Democratic Union (PYD) to introduce a Kurdish self...

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Kurds History 21st century

Syria History Civil War, 2011- Participation, Turkish

Turkey History, Military 21st century

ʻAfrīn (Syria) History 21st century

Part of a Series:

Kairos

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ISBN:

9781629636511

Description:

xviii, 146 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Other Title:

Kampf um den Berg der Kurden. English

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 135-138) and index
Translated from German

Contents:

Afrin and the "mountain of the Kurds"
population and language
religous communities
history
democractic confederalism in the canton of Afrin 00 development of the canton of Afrin from 2012 to 2018
Kurdish enclaves in the Afrin area
The war against Afrin
Voices from Afrin
What next?

LCCN:

2018948936

Control Number:

2906839

Other Authors:

Grubačić, Andrej, writer of introduction
Schiffmann, Michael, translator

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