HISTORY
HISTORY OF THE MIDDLE EAST
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Question
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The US has been involved in the Middle East for decades to prevent future terrorist attacks and to maintain access to oil.
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The Jews were given a homeland in Israel, which resulted in many Palestinians losing their land.
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The Kurds are a large ethnic group in the Middle East that were given a country of their own after WWI.
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The Ottoman Empire was a member of the Central Powers during WWI and as a result lost a large amount of their land.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Kurds are the fourth-largest ethnic group in West Asia after Arabs, Persians, and Turks. The total number of Kurds in 1991 was placed at 22.5 million, with 48% of this number living in Turkey, 24% in Iran, 18% in Iraq, and 4% in Syria.
Detailed explanation-2: -Kurds in Turkey Operating mainly from eastern Anatolia, PKK fighters engaged in guerrilla operations against government installations and perpetrated frequent acts of terrorism. PKK attacks and government reprisals led to a state of virtual war in eastern Turkey during the 1980s and ‘90s.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Kurds are the world’s largest ethnic group without a state of their own. Since their best hopes for independence were dashed a century ago, they’ve lived as minorities dispersed across a handful of countries in the Middle East, subject to ill treatment by Arab-and Persian-dominated governments.
Detailed explanation-4: -There are roughly 20-25 million Kurds across the Middle East, almost half of whom live in southeastern Turkey, northern Iraq, northern Syria and northwestern Iran, a region that some Kurds refer to as Kurdistan.