HISTORY
HISTORY OF THE MIDDLE EAST
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Question
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They were divided between 4 countries
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They became the minority ethnic group in each of the countries they are in
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They were able to take control of the territory and form their own country called Kurdistan
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They were mistreated and often attacked by other groups or the government of the countries they are in
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Detailed explanation-1: -However, when the Shah of Iran and President Saddam Hussein signed a border agreement in Algiers in 1975, the United States abruptly withdrew its support for the Kurds and the rebellion collapsed. Many thousands of Kurdish fighters and their families were forced to flee to Iran to escape the pursuing Iraqi army.
Detailed explanation-2: -Amid the withdrawal of Iraqi forces from three northern provinces, Kurdistan Region emerged in 1992 as an autonomous entity inside Iraq with its own local government and parliament.
Detailed explanation-3: -Kurdish regions were placed under martial law and the use of the Kurdish language, dress, folklore, and names prohibited. It was this continued repression that led to reemergence of Kurdish nationalism in the 1960s and 1970s.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Syrian Kurdish–Islamist conflict is a major theater in the Syrian Civil War, starting in 2013 after fighting erupted between the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) and Islamist rebel factions in the city of Ras al-Ayn.