The Kurds: History’s Forgotten

Call Number
350-4-3:153/1

General information

Call No.:
350-4-3:153/1
Part of series
HU OSA 350-4-3 Records of the International Monitor Institute: Middle East: Iraq
Located at
BetaSP NTSC #153 / No. 1
Digital ver. identifier
HU_OSA_00009959
Original Title
Kurdes: Les oubliés de l'histoire
Date of production
1991
Date
1991
Level
Item
Primary Type
Moving image
Language
French
Duration
1 hour

Content

Form/Genre
Television program
Contents Summary
French television program hosted by Daniel Bilalian about the Kurds. It contains a discussion with various French journalists, activists, and politicians about the Kurdish issue. Present in the studio are Kendal Nezan (Director of the Paris Kurdish Institute), Mahmoud Osman (Kurdish Socialist Party), and Dr. Frederic Tissot who has been involved with Kurdish issues in France. The program includes interviews with Hamed Youssef Hamadi (Iraqi Minister of Information), Henry Kissinger (former U.S. Secretary of State), Jean-Francois Deniau (Deputy of the French Democratic Union Party), Jean-Paul Tixdmeras (Médecins Sans Frontière), and Kurdish refugees in France. Also contains a report from a special envoy in Turkey led by Jerome Bony. The program includes footage of the exodus of 1991, as well as peshmerga fighting the guerilla war against Iraq.