Kurdish Separatism

Kurdish Separatism is a movement for a sovereign Kurdistan (or "Land of The Kurds") which would encompass parts of Eastern Turkey, Northern Iraq, Northwestern Iran, and small parts of Syria and Armenia.

1. Population: 5 millionTheOtherIraq.com: Iraqi Kurdistan Fact Sheet (16KB)
2. 40,000 square kilometersTheOtherIraq.com: Iraqi Kurdistan Fact Sheet (16KB)
3. Governed by the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG)TheOtherIraq.com: Iraqi Kurdistan Fact Sheet (16KB)
4. Current Prime Minister: Nechirvan BarzaniTheOtherIraq.com: Iraqi Kurdistan Fact Sheet (16KB)
5. Regional capital: ErbilNational Geographic: The Kurds in Control (January, 2006)

There are several groups of Kurds whose mission involves Kurdish separatism. They include:

1. PKK (also called the Kurdistan Workers Party)
2. Peshmerga
3. PUK (the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan)
4. KDP (Kurdish Democratic Party) of Iraq
5. KDP of Iran

• Wikipedia: Abdullah Gul

• CNN: "Turkey out of Patience, Warns Gul" (October 25, 2007)

• Turkish Weekly: "Abdullah Gul and the State's New Kurdish Policy" (September 15, 2007)

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