This edition of 'The Kurds in Iraq' brings the book fully up-to-date in the light of recent events in Iraq, and the ever-present danger of civil war. Yildiz explores the impact of the occupation and escalating violence.

Includes maps of: Area Inhabited by Kurds.

Foreword / Mark Muller -- PART I: THE PAST. The Kurds -- The Treaty of Sèvres and the creation of Iraq -- The Kurds under Barzani -- The Anfal campaigns -- The First Gulf War : From uprising to democracy -- Democracy in Iraqi Kurdistan -- Human rights in Iraqi Kurdistan -- The displacement of Kurds in Iraq -- Economic/humanitarian affairs in Iraqi Kurdistan -- The Kurds have no friends but the mountains -- US foreign policy toward Saddam : Pre-September 11 -- PART II: THE PRESENT. The road to war -- The Second Gulf War : 'Operation Iraqi Freedom' -- Current executive structure in Iraq -- Insurgency and sectarianism -- Current legal and human rights issues -- The question of autonomy -- The Anfal campaigns : The War Crimes Tribunal -- The continuing problem of internal displacement -- Current economic/humanitarian issues in Iraqi Kurdistan -- PART III: THE FUTURE. Self-determination and autonomy -- Kirkuk -- The tribunal and the victims -- The land question -- Addendum -- Appendix I. Articles of the 1920 Treaty of Sèvres relating to Kurdistan -- Appendix II: The Kurdistan regional government provisional constitution for the Federal Republic of Iraq -- Appendix III: UN guiding principles for internal displacement.