The Kurds and Regional Stability

The Kurds and Regional Stability

Iraqi Kurds are increasingly frustrated with Iraq's central government while Turkey's recent bombing campaign has taken on armed Kurdish separatists based in northern Iraq. A closer look at the politics surrounding millions of ethnic...

Iraqi Kurds are increasingly frustrated with Iraq's central government while Turkey's recent bombing campaign has taken on armed Kurdish separatists based in northern Iraq. A closer look at the politics surrounding millions of ethnic Kurds in Iraq, Turkey, Iran and Syria and how the "Kurdish question" could undermine the search for regional stability.

Guests

Bulent Aliriza

senior associate and director of the Turkey Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies

Dr. Najmaldin O. Karim

president, the Washington Kurdish Institute

Aliza Marcus

author, "Blood and Belief: The PKK and the Kurdish Fight for Independence"

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