Issue 526 of New Internationalist
Reader-owned global journalism
July-August 2020
The Kurds: Betrayed again
While the world’s attention is on the Covid-19 pandemic, Turkey is ramping up its war against the Kurds – in Syria, in Iraq and in Turkey itself. Will the West, once again, wring its hands and do nothing to help the friends who led the fight against Islamic State?
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Unbowed
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