American foreign policy toward the kurdish question 1972-1975
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2018
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University of Oum El Bouaghi
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The Kurds are the world's largest ethnic group without a nation state living in the Middle East
region. Thier territory is devided between 5 sovereign states: Turkey, Iraq, Iran, and Syria.
They speak widely different dialects and are also devided by religious affiliations and social
factors. Compared to the other Kurds, only the Iraqi Kurds were achieved some of their goals
ofautonomy, becausethey revolted several times against the Iraqi central government, but thier
problem and thier considerable geo-political importance, have pushed United States to
intervene in the Kurdish question during 1972-1975. Furthermore, United States intervention
aimed at achieving Cold War strategies in the Middle East region and weakening the
relationship between Iraq and the Soviet Union. In this regard, United States were utilized the
Kurds through two proxies, Iran and Israel to destabilize the Iraqi regime, whose building
important relationship with the Soviet Union. Despite American promises of support to the
Kurds, Iran's interests overrode the support to the Kurdish issue which pushed the US to
betray the Kurds in 1975.
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United States, Kurds, Iraq