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From Our Own Correspondent: The Kurdistan Tapes

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21/05/2016

The Kurdistan Tapes

BBC Radio 4 - From Our Own Correspondent, The Kurdistan Tapes

25 years on: the cassettes which tell the dramatic story of the flight of the Kurds.

Reports from writers and journalists around the world. Presented by Kate Adie. In this edition, Iraqi Kurdistan, Finland, Austria, Kenya and the United States.

People in the news: it's a hundred years since the signing of the secret Sykes-Picot agreement under which the British and French agreed to divide up the Middle East, and now the President of the autonomous region of Iraqi Kurdistan, Masoud Barzani, says it's time for outright independence for the Iraqi Kurds. Jim Muir considers the Kurds' flight from Saddam Hussein 25-years ago and what has happened to some of the people he encountered back then. Bethany Bell is in Austria where voting could result in the country getting Europe's first far right president. The French leader Francois Hollande's again said he wants the new nuclear plant in the English county of Somerset to go ahead. It's to be built by the French. David Shukman's been to a construction site in Finland where the French are building a similar reactor - amid some controversy. Have you had a 'camelccino' yet? Hannah McNeish in Kenya tells us camel milk could be the next big thing and that could mean huge benefits for the country's economy, and its camel herders. And vitriol from the presidential campaign might have given people reasons to be discouraged about America, but Robert Hodierne tells a story which he says illustrates the basic goodness of folks in that country.

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