Kurd

Xani's magnum opus "Mem u Zin", which nationalist Kurds have come to consider their national epic, has come to speak to all Kurds--whether they speak the northern or southern dialects.

Even basic questions remain unanswered: What do the Kurds want?

"While neither the Kurds nor other forces in Iraq want to see the intervention of the West, they are calling for arms and, where necessary, air strikes to assist them in forcing out Isis."

Today, the Syrian Kurds represent 15 per cent of the Syrian population (their estimated number is between 1.6 and 2.5 million).

With the planned withdrawal of Washington, the Kurds would be exposed to possible Turkish military action as Ankara regards the YPG as an extension of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in Turkey.

What Washington is not doing is working on a comprehensive political settlement to the Kurdish issue - with a peace plan between Turkey and Kurds as its centrepiece.

Muslim, under whose watch coalition jets began to assist Kurdish fighters in Syria, rules out a repeat of this scenario for Syrian Kurds due to "different approaches, factors, and forces," adding, "we work with the international coalition because of a convergence of interests, and rely on no one but our own people and abilities."

Self-determination is rarely consensual but the Kurds gave it a try.

The Kurds are an ethnic group of about 22 million people in the Middle East, who share a common language and culture.

New York Times THE referendum on independence that Iraqi Kurds held on September 25 was unwise, dangerous and very understandable.

It gave independence to non-Turks with autonomy to the Kurds.

Egypt Today reached the vice co-chairman of pro-Kurdish People's Democratic Party (HDP) in Turkey, HiE-yar Euzsoy, to ask him about this major shift in the region and the future of Kurds in case the state of Kurdistan is established in north Iraq.

Turkey will not allow Syria's partition, he said, adding that Al-Assad's regime has started to fathom that "the entity being built by the Kurds in northern Syria would pose a threat to Damascus in the future." His remarks in this respect coincided with fresh reports indicating that the Syrian regime warplanes bombed Kurdish strongholds in the northern region of Al-Hasaka.