The Kurds

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  • The Kurds are an ethnic group indigenous to Kurdistan, a mountainous region of the Middle East than spans across Turkey, Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Armenia. Although the Kurds do not have a homeland, they hold recognized minority status in most countries they occupy.

  • Kurds in Iraq

    Exceptionally, Kurds constitute an ethnic majority in three Northern provinces of Iraq known as Iraqi Kurdistan. During the Iran-Iraq War Saddam Hussein instituted many anti-Kurdish policies, that led to the death of nearly 100,000 Kurds. After the end of Saddam Hussein's regime during the second Iraq War, Iraqi Kurdistan was given recognition as an autonomous region of Iraq.

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      Saeed Valadbaygi writes about the execution of Ehsan Fattahian and of how other Kurds languish on Iranian death rows. http://bit.ly/8tcooo
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      Preparing for my speech and tomorrow at the last day of IUSY's conference in Cyprus, there the theme is Iran and the kurds situation.
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      sectarian divisions, sharpened by past bloodshed.At one protest Tuesday, Sunni Arabs who believe the Shiite majority and Kurds are
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      So it wasn't Bush/Cheney making money in Iraq but Peter W. Galbraith, friend and adviser of Biden & Kerry, now sucking the Kurds dry...my my
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      RT @JohnPiper: 49,000 Shikaki Kurds live on the border of Iran & Turkey. None that we know of has eternal life. Let's go. http://ow.ly/G37R
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