Panel: Are the mountains really the Kurds’ only friends?
“No friends but the mountains” is a very common phrase among Kurds who feel betrayed by their regional and Western allies. Some believe only the mountains can rescue them in times of struggle.
Most of the Kurdish-populated areas of the region are mountainous, offering Kurds shelter and defenses in times of persecution.
Rudaw’s Majeed Gly recently sat down with a panel of veteran politicians and intellectuals in the US and asked them how true the refrain really is and what the future holds for the Kurds.
He was joined by former CIA director David Petraeus, former UN envoy to Syria Staffan de Mistura, French intellectual Bernard-Henri Lévy, and American billionaire and philanthropist Thomas Kaplan.
The discussion took place on the sidelines of a February 18-19 conference at Yale University called ‘The Kurds in Crisis’ organized by the New York-based nonprofit Justice for Kurds.
Most of the Kurdish-populated areas of the region are mountainous, offering Kurds shelter and defenses in times of persecution.
Rudaw’s Majeed Gly recently sat down with a panel of veteran politicians and intellectuals in the US and asked them how true the refrain really is and what the future holds for the Kurds.
He was joined by former CIA director David Petraeus, former UN envoy to Syria Staffan de Mistura, French intellectual Bernard-Henri Lévy, and American billionaire and philanthropist Thomas Kaplan.
The discussion took place on the sidelines of a February 18-19 conference at Yale University called ‘The Kurds in Crisis’ organized by the New York-based nonprofit Justice for Kurds.