Have you heard of kurds?
453389
Yes I have heard of them, they live in northern Iraq and Turkey, but I know very little about them other then they seem friendly to the United States.
81692
Did you try google to see if there were any articles about them online? Perhaps you can find out that way.
243165
Things I know about Turkey: 1) As the song goes -"Istanbul was Constantinople" 2)They make fabulous Bread and kebabs! 3)a shared history of respect and camaraderie on the battlefield of Gallipoli with their enemy: Australian and New Zealand armies in WW1. 4) my boyfriend has a little Turkish blood from waaay back in his family. 5)There are alot of turkish people In Iran 6)Iranians make jokes that Turkish people are foolish/stupid...just like Australians make jokes about New Zealanders and Americans make jokes about Canadians and The English make jokes about the Irish and French....People are different and the same everywhere you go.
608522
The Kurds in Iraq are going to be a challenge because they all ready have autonomy in Northern Iraq. Since the end of the Gulf War they have been able to maintain a democratic government, due to the protection of U.S. aircraft. Now they want their own country because they believe their ethnicity entitles them to one. Giving the Kurds Northern Iraq would be no problem, but Turkey wants no such thing. If Kurdistan is created; Turkey promises invasion. Since Turkey is a NATO member and soon to be a EU member they hold a lot of weight. Turkey has its own Kurdish population and some resorted to violence to protest Turkish rule. If Kurdistan is created then Kurds might rebel in Turkey and expand the borders of the new country. This is what Turkey fears most and this fear is based in fact. The Kurds both in Turkey and in Iraq want to be under Kurdish rule and not under rule from Bagdhad and or Ankara.
1062449
I do. They are in Syria now.
825727
why do you say kurdistan?\nits called iraq and it will always be for arabs!\ndont you feel ashamed that you come to a country after being chased away from somewhere in asia and now you want to invent your own country on it?\n\nirbil is in iraq!\n\niraq has been its name for 1500 years, now just because the americans are there you think you can change its name?\n\nyou are worse than israeel.\n\nyou betray a country that has adopted you after you were kicked out from wherever middle asian cave you came from!
1003932
Ever heard of the Republican Party?
283470
The Kurdistan Workers Party (Kurdish: Partiya Karkerên Kurdistan or PKK), also known as KADEK and Kongra-Gel, is a militant organization, dedicated to creating an independent Kurdish state in a territory (sometimes referenced as Kurdistan) that consists of parts of southeastern Turkey, northeastern Iraq, northeastern Syria and northwestern Iran. Its current ideological foundation is revolutionary Marxism-Leninism and Kurdish nationalism. It is an ethnic secessionist organization using force and threat of force against both civilian and military targets for the purpose of achieving its political goal. The PKK is defined as a terrorist organisation internationally by a number of states and organisations. Also the Kurdish rebel leader of the group, Abdullah Öcalan, has declared his own guerrillas as "murderers".\n\nThe PKK emerged as an organization during the 1970s and developed into a formidable paramilitary organisation which rendered much of southeastern Turkey a war zone in the late 1980s and 1990s. Its actions have mainly taken place in Turkey and against Turkish targets in other countries, although it has on occasions co-operated with other Kurdish nationalist paramilitary groups in neighbouring states, such as Iraq and Iran. The PKK argued that its violence was justified by the need to defend Kurds in the context of what it saw as massive cultural suppression of Kurdish identity and cultural rights carried out by governments in the region. However, in its campaign, the PKK has been accused of atrocities against both Turkish and Kurdish civilians. Its actions, along with those of the Turkish state have been criticised by human rights groups such as Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch.\n\nThe degree of support for the PKK among Turkish Kurds is disputed. In some of the strongholds of Kurdish nationalism in the Tigris valley and mountainous regions on the Iranian border, PKK-linked parties have consistently polled close to or over 50% of votes cast in elections. However, PKK-linked parties have polled at most approximately one-third of the Kurdish vote (between 5% and 8% of the total Turkish vote), with the majority of Kurds voting for mainstream parties. In some of the more assimilated Kurdish areas, claimed by the PKK as part of 'Kurdistan', support for PKK-linked parties is at 10% or less. There is some electoral support for PKK-linked parties among Kurdish migrants in cities in Western and Southern Turkey such as Adana, Mersin and İzmir. \n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PKK
638117
It´s the Kurds. There are Kurds in Turkey, Armenia, Iran, Iraq and Syria. \nI don´t know much about the situation in the other countries - but in Turkey, they don´t have many national rights (e.g. they have to speak Turkish at schools) - that´s why they make bombings (especially in tourist resorts) from time to time. \nAt least in Iraq, there are Kurdish representatives in the new government.
168362
They have a big relationship with themselves.They are conservative and believing people.They dont like armenians and kurds anymore.But they live with these minorities with peace.They have a famous kitchen and an important Army.
1007178
"Kurds" are a group of people who living in "Iran", "Iraq" and "Turkey". They are part of these countries population.\n\n"Kurds" speak one of two dialects of "Kurdish", a West Iranian language related to Modern "Persian". Traditionally nomadic, most were forced into farming by the redrawing of state borders after World War I (1914–18).\n\nAlso, "Kurdish" nationalist party.\nIt was founded in Turkish Kurdistan in 1978 and sought to establish an independent Kurdish state in southeastern Turkey. It attacked Turkish interests and fellow Kurds suspected of collaboration with the Turkish government, often from bases in Iraq and Syria. The group's leader, Abdullah Öcalan, was arrested by Turkey in 1999 and was thereafter tried and convicted of treason. At its peak, it claimed 5,000–10,000 members.
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It will be a long and tough way to go. The Kurds have already began the process of rebuilding, and growing their own lives into a free one.But the Shiites, and Sunni's have too many generations of killing and radicalism built into their own cultures  for any real change to happen for at least a few generations.\nThe problems is that unless somebody steps in and makes them change, they wont, they have no idea how to live any other way, somebody has to be the "parent" and make them stop fighting long enough to get their children to see how to live a  peace full life. Then the change will slowly come.\nLook at how many years it took for the Russians to realize that there can be a better life, if they change the way they ran their country. Don't forget even though they may have access to television and computers, they only see what they are allowed to see, and in Irag, as well as Iran, you are taught in grade school to kill and hate anyone different then them. that is all they see and so that is how they think life is supposed to be.They dont hate us because of anything we have done, they hate us because of who we are.
207829
none of answers are correct so far. Kurds are NOT Arab!!! Kurd is a very old ethnic who founded babel and Iran civilizations. Persian culture is too close to Kurdish. Farsi and Kurdish are originally same. Sad but they are distributed in Iran, Iraq Turkey and Syria. In Iran, they live in the west, in Iraq they live north of and turkey they live in south. They have their own clothes. They have civilization more that 2 or 3 thousands of years. Not all of Kurds are separatists but some of them believe that they have to run their own business in their soil - Kurdistan.\n\nDo you want to listen to the Kurdish songs? \n\nThough there are several kurdish dialects and accents, this is an Iranian one:\n\nhttp://s2.danceage.com/playme.php?id=302&track_id=3\n\ngood luck
513381
I think its a fundamentaly good idea, how it could be implemented successfully I do not know.  I think its worth taking a look at, most definitley.\n\nEdit:  good point, gcbtrading, I forgot about that oil rich city in the north (dont remember the name offhand) that the Kurds lay claim to but arent the majority cause Hussein moved his people to during his reign.
921150
Polisci how about the Kurds? Pick a new major this one doesn't seem to be working for you.
23661
i just consider about that how do u deserve having a country.first you never had a country in history.second,if we dont see my first response you dont have qualified leaders to manage on your own,because as we see in history your brain only exist on terrorism and violence.third,you dont have enough population to have a country.fourth,if you deserve a country on lands which you think yours,turkmens in north iraq deserve a country too because they are living there troughout a long history,and armenians were living on eastern turkish lands which you want to have,then they should come and establish a country on these lands,in your opinion they deserve that too.what will you do in this situation?will you have another terrorist group or other abdullah ocalans to kill armenians and turkmens.i suggest you that doesnt work.--another point in my second and third responses if you could establish a kurdish country you will be a toy of imperialist countries.--and my asker friend i think you are a kurdish because i see you have an insular mind like most kurdishes i know in turkey.you can only dreaming about waving your kurdish flag(which is designed by pkk a kurdish terrorist group) but i am sorry they dont let you to do that after having your own country.try to have a peaceful life with your turkish and turkmen brothers and sisters.this will help you.as a muslim you know that...  C* C* C* C* C*
831054
I have regular contact with a few soldiers over there now and from what they have told me,yes and are still thankful for much of the help.The Kurds have moved to another part of Iraq away from Bagdad and Fallujah and are living in peace..they dont kill each other off like the Shites and the Sunnis.