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"Kurds Ascending" despite conflict says
U.S. Professor 7.11.2007
Book Review
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As
Turkey threatens to invade Kurdistan region in
Northern Iraq, an American professor is launching
the first strikingly positive look at the Kurdish
problem in Iraq and Turkey.
November
7, 2007
Tennessee, -- In his soon to be released book
“The Kurds Ascending: The Evolving Solution to the
Kurdish Problem in Iraq and Turkey” (Palgrave,
2008), Tennessee Tech University political science
professor Dr Michael Gunter analyzes the solution by
showing how federalism in Iraq, as well as reforms
in Turkey, are playing roles.
“This book is the first to take a positive, upbeat
view of the Kurds instead of treating them as
eternal victims,” said Gunter.
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Dr Michael Gunter.
Tennessee Tech University |
“The Kurdistan Regional Government has become an
island of democratic stability, peace, and
burgeoning economic progress, as well as an
autonomous part of a projected federal, democratic,
post-Saddam Hussein-Iraq,” he said. “If such an Iraq
proves impossible to construct, the KRG is
positioned to become independent.”
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Also, Turkey’s successful European Union candidacy
would have the additional fortuitous side effect of
granting that country’s ethnic Kurds their full
democratic rights that have been denied, said
Gunter.
Gunter draws up-to-date conclusions based on his
first-hand, long-term relationships with Kurdish
leaders and opponents alike. He joined Turkish
military, business and political leaders in
Diyarbakir, Turkey, last month to analyze the
Kurdish problem.
The Kurdish Human Rights Project, the premier
Kurdish rights organization in the world, recently
welcomed Gunter to its advisory board. He received
the Kurdish Human Rights Watch's "Service to the
Kurds Award" in 1998.
Gunter will speak about the Kurds at the EU
Parliament in Brussels on Dec. 3 and at the Royal
Institute of International Affairs in London on Dec.
19.
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Gunter is the author of five additional scholarly
books on the Kurdish question. He has also published
numerous articles in such leading periodicals as
Middle East Journal, Middle East Quarterly, Middle
East Policy, Current History and Orient.
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