Often considered forgotten by history, the Kurds are nevertheless at the heart of the transformations of the contemporary Middle East. Hamit Bozarslan provides an overview of the Kurdish question today from Rojava in Syria to the bloody repression in Iran, including the future of Iraqi Kurdistan and the question of the end of the Kurdish armed struggle in Erdogan’s Turkey.
Hamit Bozarslan
is a historian and political scientist and director of studies of theEHESSresearcher at the Center for Turkish, Ottoman, Balkan and Central Asian Studies (CETOBaC). He is the author of Kurdish question. States and minorities in the Middle East (Presses de Sciences Po, 1997), What is a revolution ? America, France, Arab world with Gaëlle Demelmestre (Éditions du Cerf, 2016) and recently directed the sum History of the Kurds. From origins to today (Éditions du Cerf, preface by Kendal Nezan) published in 2025. We also owe him, on current events in Rojava, the analysis “Le Rojava and Syria of Ahmad al-Chaara” published on Telos on October 2, 2025.Shooting & editing: A. Suhamy.
– What do we know about the Kurds today ?
– Syria: Where is the province of Rojava going? ?
– Iraq: What future for an independent Kurdish state ?
– Türkiye: What place now for the Kurdish armed struggle ?
– Iran: The Kurds: an outpost of mobilizations ?