The Front Lines of Kurdistan

The Front Lines of Kurdistan is a TV documentary about the modern history of the Kurds an oppressed and besieged people attempting to create an independent state on the ruins of Middle East The Kurds are the largest ethnic group without one Kurdishinhabited areas reach into Iran Turkey Iraq and Syria The documentary takes us to the battle lines between Kurdish forces and the Islamic State in Kirkuk and the Sinjar Mountains Iraq and Kobani Syria In December 2014 and January 2015 Erik Valenčič made it to the front lines of the fierce offensives and interviewed key figures in the struggle for an independent Kurdistan