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The Kurds are people of Indo-European origin who live mainly in the mountains and uplands where Turkey, Iraq, and Iran meet, in an area known as "Kurdistan" for hundreds of years. ( see map) They have their own language, related to Persian but divided into two main dialect areas.
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www.cool.mb.ca/~kakel/kurds.html
www.cool.mb.ca/~kakel/kurds.html
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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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The Kurds' plight most recently captured the world's attention in 1991 following the end of the Gulf War. Television around the world showed images of northern Iraq's Kurds fleeing Saddam Hussein's Iraq through the mountains of Turkey and Iran.
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www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/saddam/kurds/
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History of the Kurdish people - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Kurds are an Iranic ethnolinguistic group who have historically inhabited the mountainous areas to the south of Caucasus (Zagros and Taurus mountain ranges), a geographical area collectively refer...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Kurdish_people
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THE KURDS live mainly in Turkey, Iran and Iraq and probably number about 25-35 million worldwide (though estimates vary). They are the most important ethnic group without a state of their own. They are mostly Sunni Muslims and have their own languages.
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www.al-bab.com/arab/background/kurds.htm
www.al-bab.com/arab/background/kurds.htm
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Kurds lay claim to oil riches in Iraq as old hatreds flare ... 28 Jun 2009: Ranj Alaaldin: Once Turkey's achilles heel, the Kurds could become its greatest asset, a buffer against an unstable Iraq and an ascendant Iran...
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www.guardian.co.uk/world/kurds
www.guardian.co.uk/world/kurds
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The Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK, has been battling Turkey for an independent Kurdish state since the 1970s. Now Turkey has promised to come up with a plan to give Kurds more political rights in a bid to end the conflict.
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latimesblogs.latimes.com/babylonbeyond/kurds/
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