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Kurd
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Kurd

Member of an ethnic and linguistic group native to parts of what are now Iran, Iraq, Turkey, Armenia, and Syria (see Kurdistan). Kurds speak one of two dialects of Kurdish, a West Iranian language related to Modern Persian. Traditionally nomadic, most were forced into farming by the redrawing of state borders after World War I (1914–18). Most Kurds are Sunni Muslims; Sufism is widely practiced. Plans for a Kurdish state, promised by the Treaty of Sèvres (1920), which dissolved the Ottoman Empire, were never realized. Kurds in Turkey, Iran, and Iraq have been variously persecuted and pressured to assimilate; Iraqi attacks were particularly severe during the Iran-Iraq War (1980–88) and following the Persian Gulf War (1990–91). See also Kurdistan Workers' Party.
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It expresses the ambitions and hopes that the Kurdish people has ever struggled to realize.
Kurdish Nationalism in Mam u Zin of Ahmad-E KhEonE -- Part XI by The Kurdish Globe (Erbil, Iraq)
The Kurdish question cannot be resolved without recognizing the will of the Kurdish people and holding dialogue with its interlocutors," the group said in a statement carried by the pro-Kurdish Firat news agency.
Turkey risks pleasing no one with Kurdish peace plan: analysts by AFP / AFP Global Edition
Many Kurdish people still suffer in their everyday life as a result, so the sight of an Arab in their midst is a reminder of the terrifying days they lived under the previous Iraqi regime," he says.
Strangers in a strange land by Soma Digest (Suleimanieh, Iraq)
 
 
 
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