Between Countries
Nov 15, 2019
2 minutes
By Karl Vick
Photographs by Moises Saman for TIME
HE MODERN MIDDLE EAST WAS formed exactly 100 years ago when, in the wake of World War I, the victors began creating new countries. Among the populations deemed deserving of nationhood—along with Armenians and Azeris—were the Kurds. The Kurds had lived for centuries in the mountains and high plains where Mesopotamia becomes Anatolia and, with their own language, culture and
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