From the Introduction. For almost a hundred years (since World War I and the disintegration
of the Ottoman Empire) stability – or rather, the
permanent threat to stability – has been a key challenge for
the Middle East. One of the central elements of this threat has
been the so-called Kurdish problem, that is, the issues that
continually arise between the states of the region and the
Kurdish minority living in the area, as well as the tensions
among the individual states caused by a range of issues related
to local Kurds. The country most affected by the Kurdish problem
is Turkey