The Kurds, a nation without a state: A century-long fight for rights and autonomy
By France24
04 January 2023 |
2:36 pm
In this special edition of Middle East Matters, we focus on the Kurds. Spread across four nations, they are the world's largest stateless ethnic group. Indigenous to the Middle East and numbering at least 35 million, the Kurds have sought to establish a homeland of their own since the fall of the Ottoman Empire in the 1920s.
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