Kendal Nezan is a French-Kurdish nuclear physicist and president of the Kurdish Institute of Paris. He was born in Turkey. He is also a board member of the Washington Kurdish Institute. [1]
In 1975, Nezan established the France-Kurdistan Society, which included the leading French intellectual Jean-Paul Sartre. [2]
Nezan maintains close relations with numerous European governments and the European Parliament. [2]
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