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The Battle for the Mountain of the Kurds Self Determination and Ethnic Cleansing in the Afrin Region of Rojava by Thomas Schmidinger,Michael Schiffmann,Andrej Grubacic ISBN 1629636517 978-1629636511

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Author(s): Thomas Schmidinger; Andrej Grubačić; Michael Schiffmann
ISBN(s): 9781629636511, 1629636517
Edition: Paperback
File Details: PDF, 21.09 MB
Year: 2019
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 1629636517 

ISBN 13: 978-1629636511

Author: Thomas Schmidinger, Michael Schiffmann, Andrej Grubacic

In early 2018, Turkey invaded the autonomous Kurdish region of Afrin in Syria and is currently threatening to ethnically cleanse the region. Between 2012 and 2018, the “Mountain of the Kurds” (Kurd Dagh) as the area has been called for centuries, had been one of the quietest regions in a country otherwise torn by civil war.

After the outbreak of the Syrian civil war in 2011, the Syrian army withdrew from the region in 2012, enabling the Party of Democratic Union (PYD), the Syrian sister party of Abdullah Öcalan’s outlawed Turkish Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) to first introduce a Kurdish self-administration and then, in 2014, to establish the Canton Afrin as one of the three parts of the heavily Kurdish Democratic Federation of Northern Syria, which is better known under the name Rojava.

This self-administration—which had seen multiparty municipal and regionwide elections in the summer and autumn of 2017, which included a far-reaching autonomy for a number of ethnic and religious groups, and which had provided a safe haven for up to 300,000 refugees from other parts of Syria—is now at risk of being annihilated by the Turkish invasion and occupation.

Thomas Schmidinger is one of the very few Europeans to have visited the Canton of Afrin. In this book, he gives an account of the history and the present situation of the region. In a number of interviews, he also gives inhabitants of the region from a variety of ethnicities, religions, political orientations, and walks of life the opportunity to speak for themselves. As things stand now, the book might seem to be in danger of becoming an epitaph for the “Mountain of the Kurds,” but as the author writes, “the battle for the Mountain of the Kurds is far from over yet.”

Table of contents:

  1. Foreword to the English Edition
  2. Preface – Andrej Grubacic
  3. Introduction
  4. Afrin and the “Mountain of the Kurds”
  5. Population and Language
  6. Religious Communities
  7. History
  8. Democratic Confederalism in the Canton of Afrin
  9. Development of the Canton of Afrin from 2012 to 2018
  10. Kurdish Enclaves in the Afrin Area
  11. The War against Afrin
  12. Voices from Afrin
  13. What Next?
  14. Acronym Key
  15. Bibliography
  16. Index
  17. About the Authors 

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