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A brief introduction. ... Adding to the grievances of Turkey's Kurds is the economic underdevelopment of the southeast. The Ankara government has systematically withheld resources from the Kurdish region.
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www.fas.org/asmp/profiles/turkey_background_kurds.htm
www.fas.org/asmp/profiles/turkey_background_kurds.htm
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Kurds in Turkey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Ethnic Kurds compose a significant portion of the population in Turkey (Kurdish: Kurdên li Tirkiye , Turkish: Türkiye'deki Kürtler ). Unlike the Turks, the Kurds speak an Indo-European language....
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurds_in_Turkey
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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...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurdish_people
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In 1995 estimates of the number of Kurds in Turkey ranged from 6 million to 12 million. ... Although the government of Turkey does not compile official data on religious affiliation, scholars estimate that at least two-thirds of the Kurds in Turkey nominally are Sunni Muslims, and that as many as one-third are Shia Muslims...
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countrystudies.us/turkey/28.htm
countrystudies.us/turkey/28.htm
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Since 1984 Kurdish resistance to Turkification encompassed both a peaceful political struggle to obtain basic civil rights for Kurds within Turkey and a violent armed struggle to obtain a separate Kurdish state.
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www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/war/kurdistan-tur...
www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/war/kurdistan-turkey.htm
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Background on the Kurdish conflict and the arrest of Abdullah Ocalan by Turkey. ... It is concentrated in the parts of eastern Turkey, Syria, Iran, and Iraq that make up the region known as Kurdistan. About 12 million Kurds live in the southeast region of Turkey alone.
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www.infoplease.com/spot/kurds1.html
www.infoplease.com/spot/kurds1.html
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In Turkey almost 10 million Kurds are forbidden to use their own language or to describe themselves as Kurds, on pain of imprisonment Kurds are officially known as "Mountain Turks".
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www.cool.mb.ca/~kakel/kurds.html
www.cool.mb.ca/~kakel/kurds.html
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“Still critical”; Prospects in 2005 for Internally Displaced Kurds in Turkey ... More on human rights in Turkey; More on HRW's work on Refugees, Internally Displaced Persons and Asylum Seekers;
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www.hrw.org/reports/2005/turkey0305/
www.hrw.org/reports/2005/turkey0305/
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Brutality of the government in Turkey is endless. Kurds wish for peace and an end to the war that has been brought to Kurds. As Turkey tries to get into EU they have to solve their Kurdish conflict.
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www.mideastyouth.com/2009/04/03/kurds-protest-in-turkey...
www.mideastyouth.com/2009/04/03/kurds-protest-in-turkey-after-thousands-of-votes-are-purged/
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