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Kurdistan is an area in the Middle East, inhabited mainly by the Kurds. Kurdistan covers parts of Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Georgia and Syria. The borders of Kurdistan are hard to define, as none of the states in question acknowledge Kurdistan as a demographic or geographical region. There is a province of Kurdistan in Iran.


Before World War I, most Kurds lived within the boundaries of the Ottoman Empire. After the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, the Allies created several countries within its former boundaries. Originally Kurdistan, along with Armenia was to be one of them, according to the Treaty of Svres. However, the reconquest of these areas by Kemal Atatrk and other pressing issues caused the Allies to accept the renegotiated Treaty of Lausanne, returning this territory to Turkey. Other Kurdish areas were assigned to the new states of Iraq and Syria under both treaties. These boundaries were drawn with more concern for the division of oil resources and influence between different colonial powers and for rewarding pro-Allied Arab leaders than for ethnic distributions.


Since then, Kurds have been divided between several states, in each of which they are minorities. Many Kurds have campaigned for independence or autonomy since then, but there has been no support by any of the regional governments or by outside powers for changes in regional boundaries. A sizeable Kurdish diaspora exists in Western Europe that participates in agitation for Kurdish issues, but most of the governments in the Middle East have historically banned open Kurdish activism.


In Turkey, Iran, and Iraq, Kurdish guerilla groups fight against the government and have some control over Kurdish areas.



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Tue. February 09, 2010

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... female parliamentarian in the history of the Kurdistan Parliament. Khalifa therefore represents two of the most important sectors of Kurdish society, ...
She was born in Germany to Kurdish parents who had migrated to the country from Turkey. From the day she was born, she was confined to a secluded lifestyle ...
... a former Kurdish rebel leader, serves as the country's president. As well, the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) has had its autonomy over everything ...
Khasro Goran, the leader of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in Mosul, has led a boycott of the provincial council in Nineveh. Last year's election of a new ...

Surveys show such crimes still enjoy some measure of tolerance in Turkey's mainly Kurdish south-east, where they are most prevalent.
She had been missing or 40 days before she was uncovered by police who were acting on a tip-off in the mainly Kurdish town of Kahta. ...
Kurdamir-1 is a wildcat exploration well, located on the Kalar Bawanoor Block, in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. WesternZagros is drilling the well with its ...
Other members of the Human Rights organisation of Kurdistan are also being subjected to high pressure to close the organisation. ...
Turkish Interior Minister Besir Atalay said on Monday that police detained three people regarding the attack on pro-Kurdish peace & Democracy Party (BDP) ...
... at the Kurdamir-1 indicated discovery in the northern part of the 2120 sq km Kalar Bawanoor Block 44 in the southern part of Iraq's Kurdistan region. ...
... 40, and grandfather Fethi Memi, 65, have refused to talk to investigators and prosecutors since their arrest in early December in the Kurdish town. ...
This is an ancient ritual that occurs in the southeast Kurdish region. The killing happened in the town of Kahta. Medine Memi, 16, was part of a gruesome ...
Mrs. Judit Neurink brought up an important issue for the Iraqi and Kurdish society. Since 2006, I have had contact with representatives ...
This is a common problem in the history of Kurdish Literature that applies to almost the majority of the Poets in the classical period. ...
"I have resigned because my paper incorrectly reported that Kurdistan Region Government allocated money for the Iranian Kurdish opposition parties," said ...
... Elissa will hold a packed concert in Iraq's Kurdistan Region capital on Friday, February 19, organizers of the event revealed to "The Kurdish Globe. ...
He said Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki had called the Kurdish government and had appeared receptive to their proposals on solving the dispute over the ...
Protests in Tehran were drawing enormous crowds, while in Kurdistan, separatists were demanding an independent Kurdish state. On Aug. ...
The company holds working interests in the Republic of Algeria and the Kurdistan Region of Northern Iraq. gulf Keystone is organized into two legal entities ...
We never want al-Nujaifi come to our area," said a protestor-speaking Kurdish and Arabic-to Kurdistan TV. Al-Nujaifi's convoy was able to pass through the ...
The Kurdish regional government has ordered six turbines for a pilot project from the Dutch wind farm developer Main Wind. The turbines will be manufactured ...
In Turkey's impoverished Kurdish region, the practice of honour killing has become a well-known ritual that is chilling in its precision: when a young woman ...
Ankara, Feb 5 (Reuters) - Turkey's Kurdish peace and Democracy Party (BDP) has pledged to be more cautious than a predecessor party banned ...
The 59000 village guards, according to Interior Ministry figures, pose one of the biggest problems to the government's recently announced Kurdish initiative ...
... though she did not appear to have been drugged, and was only lightly bruised. This is one of many honor killings to occur in the largely Kurdish area.
Medine Memi was found in a six-foot-deep hole beside the family home in Kahta, in the Kurdish region of southeastern Turkey. She was in a sitting position ...
she says The determined strike of workers at Tekel, the former state-owned alcohol and tobacco monopoly, and the closure of a pro-Kurdish party by a top ...
I learned that he is the brother of Josh Fattal who, along with two of his friends, was on a hiking vacation in Iraqi Kurdistan before they were arrested by ...
Ankara, Feb 5 (Reuters) - Turkey's Kurdish peace and Democracy Party (BDP) has pledged to be more cautious than a predecessor party banned ...
In November, Human Rights Watch condemned the execution of a young Kurdish Iranian cultural activist who was hanged amid reports of torture and a grossly ...
Medine Memi was found in a six-foot-deep hole beside the family home in Kahta, in the Kurdish region of southeastern Turkey. She was in a sitting position ...
... operating in Iraqi Kurdistan. Their primary role, according to reports, is to train elite Kurdish commandos in guerilla warfare and anti-terror tactics. ...
... Kurdish issue in Turkey to the attention of world community is historic in context, and it is highly revered by our people in all parts of Kurdistan. ...
gulf Keystone's potentially company-making find in Iraqi Kurdistan is getting to be one of the most analysed wells around even though it is still some way ...
Kurdish PJAK (Party of Free Life in Kurdistan) rebels in Iran have been receiving arms and training by the CIA and Mossad, which also supports other Kurdish ...
... Kahta is said to be located in an area where there is a significant Kurdish population and where honor killings are not uncommon. ...
Some representatives considered the deployment of joint forces from the armies of Iraq, the US and the Kurdish peshmerga in conflict areas to be a violation ...
She told the inquiry that on a visit to Kurdistan a month before the war began, she found people leaving in fear of a repeat of the 1988 Halabja Massacre, ...
ARBIL: A stock exchange has been inaugurated in Arbil, the capital city of Iraq's Kurdistan region, the market's director said on Thursday. ...
In honour killings, most prevalent in Turkey's mainly Kurdish southeast, a so-called family council names a member to murder a female relative considered to ...


 


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