No friends but the mountains

"No friends but the mountains" is a Kurdish proverb which is expressed to signify their feeling of betrayal, abandonment and loneliness due to their history as a semi-stateless ethnic minority in the Middle East without faithful allies.[1][2][3][4]

See also

• No Friend But the Mountains, memoir by Iranian-Kurdish writer Behrouz Boochani

References

1. "'The Kurds have no friends but the mountains'". October 10, 2019 – via www.bbc.com.
2. Bulloch, John; Morris, Harvey (1992). No Friends But the Mountains: The Tragic History of the Kurds. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195080759.
3. "A history of selling out the Kurds, people with 'no friends but the mountains'". news.yahoo.com.
4. Hjelmgaard, Kim. "Who are the Kurds? A Middle Eastern people with 'no friends but the mountains'". USA TODAY.

Further reading

Literature

• Matloff, Judith (2017). No Friends but the Mountains: Dispatches from the World's Violent Highlands. United Kingdom: Hachette UK. ISBN 9780465097890.

Documentary

• Kae Bahar, Claudio von Planta (2017). No Friends but the Mountains: An oasis of hope in a desert of hatred and fear (Film). Joka Films, Von Planta Productions.