Roza Salih

IT seems like it was yesterday that I was attending Drumchapel High School. The daughter of a Kurdish asylum-seeking family, I was learning to speak and write English in my bilingual classroom with Mr Girvan, the best English teacher ever, Of course, it wasn’t yesterday, and this week, 15 years later, I and a number of my friends came together to relive those days and experience the latest production of the Glasgow Girls musical at the King’s Theatre in Glasgow.

AS a Kurd growing up in Scotland I see the Kurds as an invisible nation which has never been taken seriously by the international community. Following Donald Trump’s statement that he intends to withdraw US troops from Syria the reaction from the international community has once again been to ignore the consequences for the Kurds in the region.