The Kurdish question as a consequence of the rise and development of the modern nation states in the Middle East and West Asia since the early decades of the 20th century has drawn the attention of scholars of the social and political sciences. Over the last two decades, thhe number of academic works devoted to analysis of various aspects has seen as unprecedented increase. This book tries to provide an analysis of the formation of Kurdistan and the way that it has been represented in the nationalist ideologies of the modern nation states that govern the Kurds (ie Turkey, Iraq and Iran).
