Kürdistan Yasak Ülkeye Yolculuk

Translated from Spanish: İrfan Güler

32 pages of pictures

In the book, Manuel Martorell offers a general panorama of the major Muslim communities in the Middle East, giving the basic codes for understanding the current religious, cultural and political complexity. For this purpose, he uses the trips he has made to the region as a professional journalist for twenty years as a guide. The trips start from Europeanized Turkey, continue with the Islamic Republic of Iran and Arab nationalist Syria, and end with Iraq in crisis.

The Kurdish issue is a primary internal problem for the governments of Ankara, Tehran, Damascus and Baghdad. Therefore, Kurdistan: Journey to the Forbidden Land will allow the reader to deeply understand the reality of the Middle East. In its pages, a great effort is made to break the prejudices prevalent in Europe about this part of the world, and when it goes into depth about social issues of great importance, such as the internal relationship between Islam and politics, it provides historical information, epics, traditions, customs, depictions of people, nature, cities and Above all, countless and enriching personal stories are brought together in the regions where the Kurds, "the world's largest stateless people", are settled.