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| | Kurdish people - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Kurdish Jews and Kurdish Christians usually speak Aramaic as a first language. | | | The remaining Kurds are mostly either Christians, Kurdish Jews, Yazidis or Agnosticists. | | | Kurdish literature faces difficulties since the Kurdish language is not an official language except in Iraq and has restrictions in teaching in Iran and Turkey, and is banned in Syria. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurds
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| | Kurds. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 |
| | Kurdish leaders were wary, as a result, of political developments as the United States ceded sovereignty to a new Iraqi government. | | | Kurdish forces aided the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, joining with U.S. and British forces to seize the traditionally Kurdish cities of Kirkuk and Mosul. | | | In 1995, Turkey waged a military campaign against PKK base camps in northern Iraq, and in 1999 it captured the guerrillas’ leader, Abdullah Ocalan, who was subsequently condemned to death. |
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http://www.bartleby.com/65/ku/Kurds.html
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| | Kurdish National Congress of North America - kncna.org |
| | We the Kurdish people in the U.S. and Canada, condemn injustice against the Kurds in all sections of Kurdistan, particularly the Ba'athist repression and genocide against Kurdistan of Iraq, and support the ongoing struggle there. | | | We further ask that an impartial third party be appointed to represent the interests of the Kurdish people in the peace talks between Iran and Iraq. | | | The Iraqi government has taken advantage of the ceasefire and has mounted a large offensive against the Kurdish people in Iraq using all of its remaining arsenal including internationally prohibited chemical weapons. |
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http://www.kncna.org/docs/conference88.asp
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| | ChaldoAssyrians and the Kurdish People |
| | Instead of the Kurdish people putting pressure on their leaders to respect the rights of the ChaldoAssyrians, the Kurdish people are force to defend themselves as a nation because they have been accused as a nation. | | | The Kurdish people have paid a heavy price, not only under the Saddam Hussein Regime, but in the entire region. | | | Instead of the Western world being sympathetic to the ChaldoAssyrian cause, they ignore ChaldoAssyrians because the loyalty of the west lies with the Kurdish people who they see as the defenders of the Secular Democracy concept in Iraq. |
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http://www.aina.org/news/20050217125540.htm
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| | Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) |
| | This agreement accepted the fact the Iraqi people consisted of two "primary" nationalities, the Arabs and the Kurds, and established the Kurdish language as the second national language of Iraq. | | | The 24 years of campaigns against the Kurdish people by Iraq resulted in over 4,000 villages destroyed and as many a 250,000 Kurds reported killed. | | | The Kurdish Democratic Party (KDP), under the leadership of Mullah Mustalafa-al-Barzani, formed in 1946 inside the Soviet occupied land in Northern Iran. |
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http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/para/kdp.htm
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| | Human Rights Watch: Ocalan Trial Monitor |
| | The People's Labor Party (HEP) and its successor parties have been subjected to relentless persecution by the state and its security forces for over a decade. | | | The denial of cultural and political rights has generated a long-standing sense of grievance among some sectors of the Kurdish minority, and this has made them a fertile source of recruits for illegal radical armed organizations--in particular the Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK), which began attacks on gendarmerie posts and other state installations in 1984. | | | Nevertheless, there are no legally operating radio or television stations with an explicitly Kurdish character, and attempts to found such networks have been shut down. |
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http://www.hrw.org/campaigns/turkey/kurd.htm
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| | RW ONLINE: Iraqi Kurdistan: Imperialist-Sponsored Liberation a Mirage |
| | The oppression of the Kurdish people of Iraq and of the Kurdish people in the neighboring countries (Turkey, Iran and to some extent Syria) requires that they win the right to self-determination, that is, to their own state or states where they can freely decide their relations with the other people of the region. | | | On 12 April as Kurdish guerrillas were ordered out of the Kurdish city of Kirkuk in northern Iraq, it revealed many bad days ahead for the Kurdish people--right at the moment when their leaders thought they were achieving a great victory. | | | They failed to understand and correctly solve the relationship between two different contradictions, the contradiction between the Kurdish people and the Iraqi ruling class led by Saddam, on the one hand, and on the other the contradiction between the imperialist invaders versus all of the peoples of Iraq. |
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http://rwor.org/a/1197/wtwnskurdistan.htm
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| | The Kish Site |
| | The Kurdish people are the largest ethnic group in the world without a country of their own. | | | Kurdish battle scenes on this video may be considered by some as not appropriate for viewing by children. | | | A fighting people, the Kurds in Iraq have hurt their own cause by infighting between the two primary parties: the Kurdistan Democratic Party (PDK) and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK). |
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http://users.htcomp.net/kishwork
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| | The Kurdish People: an Analysis by language, geography, religion and ethnicity |
| | The Kurdish people are of mixed origins, as are virtually every other ethnic group in the world. | | | History indicates not all Kurdish ethnic groups have been actively involved in protest against the non-Kurdish governments in the region. | | | The Kurds are known for their resistance against ethnic, military and political oppression, desiring their own separate Kurdish political entity. |
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http://endor.hsutx.edu/~obiwan/articles/kurds.html
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| | RW ONLINE:Kurdish People Take the Streets Worldwide |
| | And Kurdish immigrants and refugees have brought their experiences of fighting against oppression and their hatred of imperialism to people in Europe and elsewhere. | | | The U.S. claims that the zone was set up to "protect" the Kurdish people there--meanwhile the U.S. has repeatedly used the Iraqi Kurds as pawns in the big power attacks against Iraq. | | | The brutal oppression of the Kurdish nation is a major pillar of reactionary rule in Turkey. |
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http://rwor.org/a/v20/990-99/996/kurdis.htm
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| | News and Information on the Kurdish People |
| | A Kurdish doctor, suspected of assisting injured members of the PKK (Kurdistan Workers' Party), and his colleague, suffered ill-treatment and were later found murdered by unknown assailants. | | | Nazand Begikhani, one of the organisers, told Kurdish Media, “the event is to press for the campaign against honour-killing and we also commemorate those women who have been murdered by their husbands, bothers, fathers or cousins. | | | This is because the condition in Iraqi Kurdistan is unbearable and intolerable: suppression, repression, assassination and insecurity of life are increasing rapidly. |
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http://www.1worldcommunication.org/Kurdishnation.htm
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| | HCC In the News |
| | The news it prints is important as it informs the Kurdish people of what the regime of Saddam Hussein is doing to them and their country. | | | But the end of the Golf War and the subsequent uprising of the Kurdish people throughout Iraq made it possible for Hassan to leave prison. | | | Throughout Saddam’s regime, says Hassan, the Kurdish people were given a different history. |
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http://www.hctc.commnet.edu/infocenter/news/press/2005/0804_kurds.html
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| | The Kurdish People and the U.S. Occupation of Iraq |
| | The Kurdish People and the U.S. Occupation of Iraq | | | Washington’s claim to act as an ally of the Kurdish people is nothing but cynicism and hypocrisy. | | | The 25 to 30 million Kurdish people in the Near East constitute the largest nation in the world without a state; it stretches from eastern Turkey, through a portion of Syria, across northern Iraq and into Iran (with some Kurds also scattered in the Caucasus). |
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http://www.icl-fi.org/english/wv/archives/oldsite/2003/KURDS.html
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| | From Holland to Kurdistan |
| | Kurdish parties still do not respect the territorial rights of the Azerbaijani people and continue to claim parts of this region. | | | Azeri and Arab nationalism in Iran is on the rise, all phenomena which could prove the undoing of the Mullahs. |
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http://vladimirkurdistan.blogspot.com
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| | News |
| | The unity of the Kurdish political scene and the emerging strategic consensus also provide a strong solid political ground to allow the Kurdish people achieve their political aims. | | | This movement has managed to present Kurdistan& case for self-determination to the United Nations and show the world that 98% of the Kurdish people demand total independence of Kurdistan from Iraq. | | | In a latest meeting in Kirkuk on 27 February 2005, Talabani reiterated that “the Kurds will support political programmes and not personalities. |
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http://www.puk.org/web/htm/news/nws/miraw050303.html
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| | Democracy Now! “We Ask For Democracy And Human Rights Without Oppression And Without Killing” — Kurdish ... |
| | Former Kurdish political prisoner Mehdi Zana joins us in our studio to talk about the plight of the Kurds in Turkey, his wife's ongoing imprisonment, the threat of Turkey invading northern Iraq and more. | | | Speaking Kurdish, wearing so-called Kurdish colors, identifying oneself in any way as a Kurd can lead to jail, torture or even death. | | | She was later sentenced to 14 years in prison where she still remains. |
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http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=03/11/13/1541237
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| | Kurdish Womens Action Against Honour Killings (KWAHK) |
| | She was the only parliamentarian who dared to speak in Kurdish in a speech in the Turkish Parliament in 1991. | | | She was sentenced in 1994 to fifteen years in prison; she and her colleagues have been in jail for the last ten years. | | | For over twenty years she has fought for peace, and the rights and freedom of Kurdish people. |
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http://www.kwahk.org/articles.asp?id=50
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| | IRC The Kurdish Community in Atlanta |
| | Kurdish families in the metro-area include those from Iraq, Iran, and Syria. | | | Group of Kurdish people dancing at Nawrooz party. | | | Classes were in IRC office and were for people who spoke some English. |
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http://www.theirc.org/index.cfm/wwwID/575
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| | Kurdistan Recognizes the Armenian Genocide |
| | Imposed colonialist policies have set these people against the Kurdish people and against each other, have created clashes and forced deportations and exiles. | | | Sharing the agony caused by this process, I find the Ottoman State and their collaborators the Hamidiye Alaylari, formed by some Kurdish tribes, responsible for this crime before history and I condemn them with abhorrence. | | | Separately, through their diverse assaults to annihilate the Kurdish people, they are registering new pages in the annals of genocides. |
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http://www.cilicia.com/armo10i_kurdistan.html
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| | Kurdish politics and the Kurdish people |
| | I know who I blame, Kurdish political leadership. | | | They easily gain degrees from universities, they make successful businesses, they speak political sense that European people support, they speak more languages than I have ever known a people to speak: Kurdish, Arabic, Turkish, Farsi, English, German, French. | | | Kurdish intellectuals around the world are more useful alive than dead (or in prison) after making some futile political gesture. |
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http://www.kurdmedia.com/news.asp?id=11411
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| | Photography by Ed Kashi |
| | he Kurds are the largest ethnic group in the world without a nation, numbering over twenty million people with a common language and culture. | | | Ed documented the plight of the Kurds in Iraq, Iran, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Germany and London after the genocidal campaigns waged against them by Saddam Hussein during the Gulf War. | | | Refugee camps, wheat harvests, family life, victims of chemical warfare and the Kurdish leaders are all part of Ed’s extensive documentation. |
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http://www.edkashi.com/ekurds.html
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| | Bilal Ahmad on Iraq & Kurds on National Review Online |
| | But, because of their alliance with the U.S., there is growing Arab antipathy toward Kurds, both inside and outside Iraq. | | | Many Arab members of the former IGC now oppose the TAL articles which guarantee federation for Kurdistan and the right of the Iraqi Kurdistan Region to veto the permanent constitution. | | | The Kurdish leadership has played the political game badly. |
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http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/ahmad200406240926.asp
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| | follows an inhuman policy against the Kurdish people. | | | Today, the Syrian regime tolerates the occupants of the Syrian ground and signs agreements with them against the Kurdish people, an orphan people which only want to live in peace with his neighbours. | | | Not only it prohibits to the Kurds to make studies in their language and to organize cultural activities and political, but in addition it practises a racial segregation against these people: there are thousands of Kurds in |
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http://www.chak.info/english/doc/Syria.htm
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| | Open Directory - Society: Ethnicity: Asian: Middle Eastern: Kurdish |
| | Flash Bulletin - Offers news and reports about developments in Turkey, Iraq and the Middle East concerning the Kurdish question | | | About the Kurds - A description of the Kurdish people, their land, history, language, and geopolitics. | | | Encyclopedia.com: Kurds - Overview of the Kurdish people, their history, and their modern geopolitical situation. |
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http://dmoz.org/Society/Ethnicity/Asian/Middle_Eastern/Kurdish
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| | Kurdish language, alphabet and pronunciation |
| | Kurdish is a member of the Western Iranian branch of Indo-European languages. | | | Essential words and phrases in the Kurdish of Iraq (with audio) | | | Approximately 26 million people speak Kurdish in Iraq, Turkey, Iran, Syria, Lebanon, Armenia, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Azerbaijan, Kazakstan and Afghanistan |
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http://www.omniglot.com/writing/kurdish.htm
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| | Kurdish - Wiktionary |
| | This page was last modified 08:31, 18 March 2006. | | | Of, from, or pertaining to Kurdistan, the Kurdish people or the Kurdish language | | | Language of Kurdistan (In the Mesopotamia region, from the Zagros of mid-western Iran to the eastern extension of the chain of the Taurus Mountains.) |
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http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Kurdish
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