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2016 Great Decisions Foreign Policy Lecture Series – The Future of Kurdistan
January 21, 2016 at 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
The Future of Kurdistan
Speaker: Mr. Benjamin Kweskin
Kurdistan, a mountainous area made up of parts of Turkey, Iraq, Iran, and Syria, is home to one of the largest ethnic groups in region: the Kurds. Now, most in the West know them for their small, oil-rich autonomous region in northern Iraq called Iraqi Kurdistan — one of the U.S.’ closer allies in the Middle East and a bulwark against the expansion of the so-called Islamic State. What does the success of Iraqi Kurdistan mean for Kurds in the surrounding region?
