Where is the future for the Kurds in the Middle East?
CGTN
The past year has been a tough one for the Kurds in the Middle East. Furthermore, it is not evident that the next year will be a better one for them either.
Perhaps the visible example of Kurdish misfortune over the past year happened in early October. U.S. President Donald Trump announced that he was pulling back the small contingent of American forces from the autonomous Kurdish region known as Rojava in northeast Syria.
The American pullback exposed the Kurds to Turkey, which launched a military offensive into Rojava. Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan claimed the move was to target and eliminate terrorists in the area and establish a buffer zone that would be 20km wide and 300km long.
