Terra Incognita: Why aren’t there ethnic nation-states in the Middle East?
There will never be a rise of many new ethnic states in the Middle East.
MAYBE IF there are enough of us, we will get a state of our own? Iraqi Shi’a Turkmen fighters take part in an intensive security deployment in the town of Taza, south of the northern oil city of Kirkuk.(photo credit: REUTERS)BySETH J. FRANTZMAN