Kurdish people - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Kurds (Kurdish: ) are an Ethnic-Iranian ethnolinguistic group mostly inhabiting a region known as Kurdistan, which includes adjacent parts of Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey. Substantial Kurdish c...
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Arabs, Kurds and westerners all vacation together. Welcome to Iraqi-Kurdistan! ; ... The people of Iraqi-Kurdistan invite you to discover their peaceful region, a place that has practiced democracy for over a decade, a place where the universities, markets, cafes and fair grounds buzz with progress and prosperity and where...
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The Columbus Dispatch - Columbus, Ohio's Daily Newspaper ... Iraqi parliament seeks to end election crisis ... BAGHDAD (AP) -- Iraqi lawmakers on Saturday sought a compromise in a dispute over an election law that was vetoed by a vice president, throwing national polls slated for January into question.
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Meanwhile, the Kurdistan Workers' Party, the PKK, currently waging a guerrilla insurgency in southeastern Turkey, has rejected the Iraqi Kurds' decision to seek local self-government within a federal Iraq. The PKK believes any independent Kurdish state should be a homeland for all Kurds.
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1920 - Treaty of Sevres, which carved up the Ottoman Empire after World War I, calls for the creation of a Kurdish state. But the plan collapses and the Kurds are split, mainly among Iran, ... 1988 - Iraqi President Saddam Hussein launches scorched-earth campaign against Kurds. Thousands are killed in poison gas attacks.
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Such an operation could ignite a wider conflict involving Iraqi Kurds, and disrupt Turkey's ties with its NATO ally, the United States. ... Some think Turkey may hope its military buildup will push the United States and Iraqi Kurds to crack down on the separatists and head off a Turkish offensive.
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Iraqi Kurds commemorate the 14th anniversary of Iraq's chemical attack on the city of Halabja, which left 5,000 dead ... Iraqi aircraft shelled Halabja with chemical weapons on 16 March 1988, in an attack which left 5,000 dead and 7,000 injured or with long ... But Kurds are wary of declaring their support for such a war.
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The insurgents from the PKK — the Kurdish Workers Party — who are doing the damage in Turkey might be Kurdish, but there remain key differences with the two main groups representing Iraqi Kurds, the PUK — the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan — led by Mr Talabani, and the KDP — the Kurdistan Democratic Party —...
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Iraqi Kurdistan is likely to reappoint its energy minister in the newly formed government, officials said, keeping in place an official who has headed an energy strategy pitting Kurds against th... ... Kurds, who were slaughtered by Saddam Hussein in the 1980s and fought a bloody civil war amongst themselves in the 1990s,
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