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Out of Nowhere

The Kurds of Syria in Peace and War

By (author) Michael M. Gunter
Format: Hardback
Publisher: C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd, London, United Kingdom
Published: 30th Sep 2014
Dimensions: w 136mm h 220mm d 30mm
Weight: 355g
ISBN-10: 184904435X
ISBN-13: 9781849044356
Barcode No: 9781849044356
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Synopsis
In mid 2012 the previously almost forgotten Syrian Kurds suddenly emerged as a potential game-changer in the country's civil war when, in an attempt to consolidate its increasingly desperate position, the Assad government abruptly withdrew its troops from the major Kurdish areas in Syria. The Kurds in Syria had suddenly won autonomy, a situation that has huge implications for neighboring Turkey and the near-independent Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in Iraq. Indeed, their precipitous rise may prove a tipping-point that alters the boundaries imposed on the Middle East by the Sykes-Picot Agreement of 1916. These important events and what they portend for the future are scrutinised by the renowned scholar of the Kurds, Michael Gunter. He also analyses the sudden rise of Salih Muslim and his Democratic Union Party (PYD)-which was created by the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and remains affiliated to it-and the extremely complex and deadly fighting between factions of the Syrian Opposition affiliated with al-Qaeda, such as the Jabhat al-Nusra jihadists and the PYD, among others.

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'Out of Nowhere is the latest of Michael Gunter's many important studies of the Kurds. This timely book puts the dramatic developments of the last two years in Syria's Kurdistan in historical, geopolitical and socio-cultural context. Essential reading for anyone who wishes to understand the dynamic role of the Kurds in a changing Middle East.' * Ofra Bengio, Head of the Kurdish Studies program at the Moshe Dayan Center, Tel Aviv University *