Gabriele Leone
(Security Analyst, RIEAS Research Associate)
Copyright: Research Institute for European and American Studies (www.rieas.gr) Publication date: 7 May 2015
Under what circumstances did the Kurdish question take its current dimensions? Since when and why it stands as such? What are the tools that have allowed it to extend? In an attempt to answer these questions we need to analyze the history of the Anatolian from the end of the Ottoman Empire to the present day. The end of World War I finds the pointing of the "Kurdish issue" which is used uses as a tool of execution for the implementation of the system of capitulation. Using this tool, the western states were able to create the situation due to which Kurdistan was snapped like a piece of bread from the neighbouring states... Read more (English) & Read more (Italian)