Reflection of the Kurdish Issue in The French Newspaper Le Monde

Since its founding in 1944, the French Newspaper Le Monde has been one of the most influential journalistic centers, as it has allocated appropriate space to the Kurdish issue. This is done using information from various sources, such as the French news agencies AFP, the American news agency Reuters, the Soviet news agencies TASS, or the media channels of the Iraqi government and the Kurdish revolution. Sometimes the newspaper's correspondents in European and American capitals and in the Middle East prepared reports on this issue. As a result, the newspaper was able to play an important role in introducing the Kurdish issue to influential international political centers and became an important source for research.This research, entitled (Reflection of the Kurdish issue in the French Newspaper Le Monde 1961-1968), consists of an introduction and five sections. The first section discusses the beginnings of presenting the Kurdish issue in Le Monde newspaper, and the second section focuses on the reflection of the Kurdish issue in the newspaper during the era of Abdul Karim (1958-1963). In the third section, for the same purpose as the previous section, there was a brief discussion of the period of the Sufi brothers (1963-1968). In addition to the fourth topic, international solidarity for the Kurdish issue is presented, and in the fifth topic of the study, the position of Le Monde newspaper on the same issue in Iraq is devoted to a special discussion. Finally, we concluded that Le Monde newspaper played a role in introducing the Kurdish issue to the international community and influential political decision-making centers.