The Kurd Issue in West Asia at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century

This book is translated from Russian, a collection of topics specific to analyzing the Kurd issue in the countries of West Asia, which includes the countries of Iraq, Turkey, Syria, and Iran. The vast majority of these writings and analyses were written by Kurdologists of the Institute of Oriental Studies and higher education institutions in Moscow, and they emphasize the details of the Kurd problem in Iraq and Turkey, and a part also sheds light on the characteristics of the Kurd problem in Iran and Syria, and the regional and international aspects are also presented.

The topics of this book consist of the Kurd problem in West Asia at the beginning of the twenty-first century, the emergence and development of internal Kurd conflicts, the attitude of regional neighbors toward the independence of the Kurd of Iraq, America and the Kurd of the South, South Kurdistan and the development of the political process in Iraq, the challenges of implementing the autonomy of South Kurdistan and the reasons for not returning, the political role of the universities of South Kurdistan, the political development of the Kurd of the South, the permanent constitution of Iraq and the interests of the Kurd, the impact of the Iraq crisis on solving the Kurd problem in the Republic of Turkey, the democratic turning point and the Kurd problem in Turkey at the beginning of the twenty-first century, the relationships of the Turkmen of Iraq with different political forces and the interests of Turkey, the attitude of the new conservatives of Iran regarding the Kurd issue and stability in West Asia, the Kurd factor in the foreign policy of Turkey, the role of South-East Turkey in the national strategy for transporting energy to domestic and foreign markets, the situation of Iraq and the problems of political stability in Turkey, South Kurdistan as the most important factor of Iraq's stability, the Kurd factor and regional stability, the economic program of Kurdistan, the oil situation in South Kurdistan, the Kurdistan Region and the problem of stability, the horizons of the Kurd state, and the Kurd as a factor of stability in the region.