Episode
The Kurdish issue: Part one
- Podcast
- The Global Jigsaw
- Published
- Apr 17, 2025
- Duration seconds
- 1956
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- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct7yv2
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Summary
Will the call for the PKK to disarm end in a new era of peace for the Kurds, or is this just another turn in a tortured history? In February, Abdullah Ocalan, the imprisoned leader of the Kurdistan Workers Party, known as the PKK, released a jaw-dropping written message to his followers from his jail cell, calling for the group to lay down arms and disband. In this series we explore the Kurdish issue - the persecution, the resistance and their attempts to form a state. We ask what the future holds for one of the largest stateless ethnic groups in the world scattered across Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Iran.