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One of the things I keep hearing about Iraq is the Kurds. People always seem scared that the Kurds will secede or declare independence and that this will cause Turkey to attack them. Or sometimes I ... So the Kurds hate the Turks, and the Turks fear the Kurds. At this point you have to wonder why the Turks care about...
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A Washington Post report with background information about the Kurds. ... A largely Sunni Muslim people with their own language and culture, most Kurds live in the generally contiguous areas of Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Armenia and Syria – a mountainous region of southwest Asia generally known as Kurdistan ("Land of the Kurds").
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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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Even though the Kurds claim is valid, the Turks and Iraqis have chosen to ignore it and have tried to wipe out the Kurds. Second, and probably most important, is that this conflict involves cultural geography. The Kurds are ethnically and culturally different from both the Turks and the Iraqis.
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The few Armenians who survived the death marches and massacres were driven into concentration camps in the Syrian desert where they were denied food and water and left to die. [40] Those few Armenians who were saved or survived, mostly teenagers or young children, were often saved by Turks or Kurds,
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Everything that the Kurds hated in Saddam and the Baath regime, they reproduce, practise and adopt, including nepotism, Baath penal code, insulting women of anfal and destruction of Kurdish villages, without any feeling of shame and embarrassment or any fear of long-term consequences.
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www.kurdmedia.com/article.aspx?id=14062
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While the Kurds are hated, discriminated, ignored, stamped as terrorists, they do not have any access to public services, hospitals, medicine and schools. ... Turkey has hitherto succeeded some how painless with the exception of some miner problems as being hated by all of her neighbours as Syria, Iraq, Iran, Greece,
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www.kurdmedia.com/article.aspx?id=8648
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Some felt the colours were too close to those of the Israeli flag while its crescent motif reminded Kurds of their hated Turkish neighbour. It was swiftly abandoned. Parliament is expected to discuss a potential new design.
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www.zawya.com/story.cfm/sidZAWYA20060904072136
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