The Kurdish people have been entwined with US history in the Middle East since the First Gulf War in 1991.The Kurds are spread across four countries, not just Iraq. Syria, Turkey and Iran each contain millions of Kurds. But what is it exactly that makes them Kurdish? And why don’t they have their own country? Host Marco Werman speaks with Shivan Fazil, a Kurdish scholar and political analyst based in Erbil, in the Kurdish region of Iraq.
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