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The Kurds are a large and distinct ethnic minority in the Middle East, numbering some 25-30 million people. The area that they have inhabited--referred to on maps for centuries as "Kurdistan"--spans modern day Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey.
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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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Relations between the Kurds and the Persian and Turkish authorities had always been extremely bad, the Kurds persecuted and exterminated by the thousands (a situation that has not improved even by the end of the 20th century), which led some Kurdish tribes and smaller groups to try and find refuge in Russia.
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www.tacentral.com/people.asp?story_no=7
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There are hundreds if not thousands of documented cases about Saddam's acts of tyranny, torture and mass murder of Kurds in particular, and Iraqi people in general. Kurds all around the world have family members or friends who have lost their lives or suffered horrifically at the hands of the Iraqi regime.
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www.khrw.com/torturesandgenocide.html
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The Kurds are preserved as enemies in the government controlled areas in Iraq and they are subject to persecution by different militant Arab groups. Examples are given here. ... The Kurds are preserved as enemies in the government controlled areas in Iraq and they are subject to persecution by different militant Arab groups. ..
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www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/25762
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Recently Advocate Ali Ahmad Kurd played a leading ... Recently USA and Turkey agreed to fight unitedly against the Kurds. Are Kurds being persecuted for being descendents of Salahuddin? When Arabs, Balochs, Iranis and Turks live peacefully in Middle East,why Kurds are not allowed to form a homeland.
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answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20071127024102AASK...
answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20071127024102AASKgAi
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Article date: December 1, 1993 ... Eighty years ago, a thriving community of 200,000 Christians lived in the small triangle near the Syrian border known as Turabdin. Today, there are only 2,000 Christians ... "We are being terrorised into leaving our own land, so that the Muslim Kurds can take it over," says Denho Altin, ...
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www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-14875605.html?refid=ip_hf
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At Iraq's polls, once persecuted Kurds won prominence in new assembly. ... The rise of the Kurds, who suffered under Saddam Hussein, not only makes them important power brokers in the new Iraq but is likely to add to the strains on Iraqi unity as the country's experiment in democracy rolls forward.
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www.csmonitor.com/2005/0215/p01s02-woiq.html
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They also underscore a growing distrust of the United States among Iraqi Kurds, who say US officials have ignored or undermined their interests as Washington focuses on quelling ... Since the early 1900s, Kurds -- a persecuted minority of 30 million spread across Iraq, Iran, Syria, and Turkey -- have fought for self-rule.
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www.boston.com/news/world/middleeast/articles/2007/02/1...
www.boston.com/news/world/middleeast/articles/2007/02/15/iraqi_kurds_seek_promise_of_protection_from_us/
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The persecution of the Kurds was a natural consequence. After all, the objective of the Turkish leaders was not a "Turkey for the Muslims". In a way, the Hellenic Genocide still didn't end, as its few survivors are persecuted right now in all territories ruled by the Turks, especially in Constantinople and Imvros.
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www.hellenicgenocide.org/
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