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Kurdish Dreams - Can Rojava Survive?

Rojava - a Kurdish run-region in Syria is the closest thing Syrian Kurds have had to their own state. Now that they've all but defeated IS, is Turkey their next military threat?

Rojava - is a Kurdish run-region in northern Syria that emerged out of the chaos of the civil war. It's the closest Syrian Kurds have had to having their own state. Whilst they were fighting so called Islamic State, they had the backing of the Americans. But now IS has been all but defeated, Turkey - terrified of Kurdish nationalism within its own borders has gone on the attack. Can the Kurdish dream survive?

50 minutes

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Sun 9 Dec 2018 10:10GMT

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