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Ramazan Aras on the past and present of the Turkey-Syria border
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43 minutes
Released:
Dec 7, 2021
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Podcast episode
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Ramazan Aras on “The Wall: The Making and Unmaking of the Turkish-Syrian Border” (Palgrave Macmillan). The book examines the effect on local Kurdish communities of the foundation of the Turkey-Syria border in 1923 and its later hardening, leading most recently to the building of a security wall along its length.
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Released:
Dec 7, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode
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