Shoulder-to-Shoulder Capacity Building with Colleagues in War-Torn Kurdistan, Iraq: An Equal Opportunity, Non-Partisan Endeavor
We were quite perplexed after reading the recent letter from our distinguished colleague, Dr Seher Demirer, chair of the Turkish Surgical Society, who represents 19 Turkish medical/surgical societies and federations.1 In response to our article, "Medical capacity-building in war-torn nations: Kurdistan, Iraq as a model,"2 while the article contains more than 4,000 words, Turkey was mentioned only twice and only in the context of describing the geopolitics of current Kurdistan, Iraq.
Source: Journal of the American College of Surgeons - Category: Surgery Authors: Quyen D. Chu, Renas Zibari, Thai Lagraff, Anand Annamalai, Sachin "Sunny" Jha, Lou Smith, Bharat Guthikonda, Hosein Shokouh-Amiri, Gazi B. Zibari Tags: Letter Source Type: research