The Kurds

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  • The Kurds
    • People without a state
      • Long wanted their own independent state
      • Suffered persecution
        • Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein
        • Armed conflict with Turkish police and military.
    • Ethnic group spread around Middle East
      • 35 million living in the heartland
      • 2-3 Million living in diaspora
        • For example, Germany
    • 'Heartland' is known as Kurdistan
      • Spread across Iran, Iraq, Syria and Turkey
      • Autonomous region
    • Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK)
      • Organisation using armed conflict
        • Aim to bring about a Kurdish Nation
      • Regarded as a terrorist group
        • By USA and EU countries

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