HISTORY
HISTORY OF THE MIDDLE EAST
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Question
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The Kurds want to rejoin the British imperialists.
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After WWI, the Kurds became the largest ethnic group in Southwest Asia.
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The Kurds are separated into separate countries by artificial political borders.
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After the break-up of the Ottoman Empire, the Kurds established their own country.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Following the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire, at the Paris Conferences in 1919, Tehran demanded various territories including Turkish Kurdistan, Mosul, and even Diyarbakır, but these demands were quickly rejected by Western powers. Instead, the Kurdish area was divided by modern Turkey, Syria and Iraq.
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: -The Kurds are one of the world’s largest peoples without a state, making up sizable minorities in Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey. Their century-old fight for rights, autonomy, and even an independent Kurdistan has been marked by marginalization and persecution.
Detailed explanation-4: -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”).