books.google.de - Straddling the mountainous borders where Turkey, Iran, Iraq, and Syria converge in the Middle East, the 25-30 million Kurds living there constitute the largest nation in the world without its own independent state. In recent years the Kurdish problem has become increasingly important in Middle Eastern...http://books.google.de/books/about/Historical_Dictionary_of_the_Kurds.html?hl=de&id=zDRGO6EgapMC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareHistorical Dictionary of the Kurds