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    The Kurds – a bitter history of betrayal

    Donald Trump has given the green light for a Turkish invasion of Kurdish territory. He’s not the first US leader to turn his back on this ethnic group
    by Michael Safi Oct 13, 2019 2 minutes
    Turkish forces prepare to move against the Kurds last week after the US withdrew troops from the area. Photograph: STR/EPA

    The old Kurdish proverb is quoted so often that it would be hackneyed if it were not so true. An ethnic minority of about 30 million people spread across the Middle East, the Kurds have “no friends but the mountains”, they say. The aphorism proved itself again this week.

    The Kurds, the fourth-largest ethnic group in the negotiations after the 1918 armistice, but after Turkey fought back, the French and British tore up those plans and divided Kurdish-inhabited lands between Turkey, Iraq and Syria.

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