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Over the last ten years the Middle East has witnessed substantial major changes, which have altered the conditions under which the so-called ‘Kurdish problem’ has been approached. A notable breakthrough in Ankara’s approach to both the Turkish Kurds and the Middle East, coupled with the consolidation of the Kurds and a deep crisis in the region, indicate that the relations between Turkey, the Kurds and the Middle East will not return to the geopolitical paradigm which dominated much of the twentieth century.