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Cengiz Gines | Approaches to Kurdish Autonomy in the Middle East’, Nationalities Papers (2020), 48: 2, 323–338
Nationalities Papers, 2020 By Cengiz Gunes – ACADEMIA
This article focuses on the approaches and challenges to Kurdish autonomy in Iraq, Syria, and Turkey. Accommodation of Kurdish rights via autonomy arrangements has a long history as an idea but negotiating actual autonomy agreements was often a fruitless task. However, the weakening of state power in Iraq since 1991 and in Syria since 2011 has created opportunities for Kurdish movements in these states to develop and consolidate their autonomous administrations. Consequently, in recent year…
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