Beyond Today - Did Trump kill the Kurdish dream?
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The Kurds are an ethnic group living in the north of Syria and in neighbouring Iran, Iraq and Turkey. Since the conflict in Syria started almost nine years ago they’ve been fighting to establish their own state in northern Syria. The US allied with the Kurds to defeat ISIS and supported the Kurdish cause. That was until President Trump announced he was pulling US troops out of Syria leaving the Kurds exposed to the threat of the Turkish army, the Kurds’ political enemy.
In this episode we speak to BBC journalists Jiyar Gol and Charlotte Pamment, who have been to Syria to find out what will happen to the Kurds.
Presenter: Matthew Price
Produced by Heidi Pett
Mixed by Weidong Lin and Nicolas Raufast
Editor: John Shields.
Published on Tuesday, 17th December 2019.
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