Introduction: The Erasure of Kurdistan On August 10, 1920, delegates from the Allied powers and the defeated Ottoman Empire convened in the showroom of the porcelain factory in Sèvres, France, to sign a peace treaty intended to formally end World War I in the Middle East. The Treaty of Sèvres was a document of punitive partition. It … Continue reading The Nation That Never Was: The Treaty of Sèvres, Lausanne, and the Kurdish Question