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Article: Rebellion in the mountains.(Stateless Peoples--Kurds)
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- Canada and the World Backgrounder
- Article date:
- October 1, 2003
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The Kurds are people of Indo-European origin. They live mainly in the mountains and uplands where Turkey, Iraq, and Iran meet, in an area known as Kurdistan.
Although there are minor Kurdish communities in Lebanon, and Armenia, about half of the world's 25 million to 30 million Kurds live in Turkey, making up more than 20 percent of the country's population. Six million to seven million live in Iran (about 10 percent of the people), 3.5 million to four million live in Iraq (about 23 percent of the population), and 1.5 million live in Syria. Most Kurdish people are Sunni Muslim. Before World War I, they led a nomadic life of sheep and goat herding. The breakup of ...
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Article: TALKS START BETWEEN KURDS, IRAQ.(Main)
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May 8, 1991 ;
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... ... preliminary agreement on autonomy for Iraq's 3.5 million Kurds, the Iraqis are keeping this ... agreement to help pacify the Kurds in northern Iraq and reassert control over the ... Gulf war and by rebellions by Kurds and Shiite Muslims that followed ...
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