USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Kurdish nationalism (Kurdish: , romanized: Kurdayetî, lit. ‘Kurdishness’) is a nationalist political movement which asserts that Kurds are a nation and espouses the creation of an independent Kurdistan from Iran, Iraq, Syria and Turkey.

Detailed explanation-2: -Most of the Kurds live in contiguous areas of Iran, Iraq, and Turkey-a somewhat loosely defined geographic region generally referred to as Kurdistan (“Land of the Kurds”).

Detailed explanation-3: -Kurds (Kurdish: , Kurd) or Kurdish people are an Iranian ethnic group native to the mountainous region of Kurdistan in Western Asia, which spans southeastern Turkey, northwestern Iran, northern Iraq, and northern Syria.

Detailed explanation-4: -Southeastern Iraq is dominated by Arabs who follow the Shia division of Islam, which is also followed by most of Iran’s population. A group that is ethnically Kurdish and follows the Sunni division dominates northern Iraq.