Kurds
Kurds (Kurdish: کورد ,Kurd) or Kurdish people are an Iranic ethnic group native to a mountainous region of Western Asia known as Kurdistan, which spans southeastern Turkey, northwestern Iran, northern Iraq, and northern Syria. There are exclaves of Kurds in Central Anatolia, Khorasan, and the Caucasus, as well as significant Kurdish diaspora communities in the cities of western Turkey (in particular Istanbul) and Western Europe (primarily in Germany). The Kurdish population is estimated to be between 30 and 45 million.Kurds speak the Kurdish languages and the Zaza–Gorani languages, which belong to the Western Iranian branch of the Iranian languages in …
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DW: Deutsche Welle · 2 June 2015 English
We hear from three headline hotspots: how Syria's Kurds are fighting I.S., a German pastor's experience in Ukraine and Nepal's unhappy Sherpas. We also talk to artists who are making a difference - a textile …
LC: Library of Congress · 2015 English
"The wars in Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan were lost before they began, not on the battlefields, where the United States won every tactical engagement, but at the strategic level of …
Montanyards of the high- lands; in Iraq today the Kurds and the Yazidi minority community; and in Afghanistan … ISIS offensive in the sum- mer of 2014, while the Kurds, a downtrodden and per- secuted minority in three … Iraq and Syria today. The difference is that the Kurds think of themselves as a nation and are willing …
LC: Library of Congress · 1 January 2011 English
problem because of the Shias, the Sunnis, and the Kurds up in the north. Q: Things that we are learning …
LC: Library of Congress · 2011 English
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back a millen- nium or more. Conflicts between Kurds, Sunni, and Shia Arabs in Iraq have a similarly …
LC: Library of Congress · 2011 English
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back a millen- nium or more. Conflicts between Kurds, Sunni, and Shia Arabs in Iraq have a similarly …
LC: Library of Congress · 1 January 2010 English
the Israelis were giving aid and comfort to the Kurds in the north of the country. The Israelis and the …
PDL: Panjab Digital Library · 1 January 2010 English
who was accidentally killed by 0 9 - O * some Kurds in 329 H., bore the name of Buj-kum as written …
LC: Library of Congress · 13 February 2001 English
Eagleton was one who wrote an excellent book on the Kurds and later became an ambassador. There had been times … Q: What was this north Iran? I assume there were Kurds there anAzeris and other people. MAST: Yes, the … So primarily, as you say, Azeris or Turks and Kurds. There were also Rashits near the Caspian who had … starting to be quite a lot of problem with the Kurds in Iraq and to a certain extent in Iran, and so … really pulled the plug on our support for the Iraqi Kurds in 1975. Library of Congress Interview with Charles …
LC: Library of Congress · 27 January 1999 English
iTurkey, involved - Kurds, for instance? TEEPLE: There is a Kurdish language, but Kurds there all spoke Turkish …
LC: Library of Congress · 5 February 1996 English
they did complain about it. Q: What about Kurds? Were the Kurds at all a factor while you werthere? HELSETH: … time maintained the fiction that there were no Kurds in Turkey, they were just mountain Turks stemming … it was not the problem it became later when the Kurds became more active politically in Turkey and began …
