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Article: Middle East crisis again squeezes Kurds.(World)(Briefing/Middle East)(News Analysis)

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March 11, 1998
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Little noticed amid the latest Middle East crisis involving Iraq, one of the world's largest ethnic groups without a country finds itself once again in the middle of power politics and regional conflict.

Only weeks ago, thousands of Kurds flocked to northern Iraq, hoping to cross into Turkey if the United States began military strikes against Iraq.

But the Iraqi Kurds are not welcome in Turkey, which reportedly sent 7,000 Turkish troops into northern Iraq to hold them back. The Ankara government sought to avoid a repetition of the aftermath of the 1991 Persian Gulf war, when more than 1.5 million Kurdish refugees fled to the Iranian and Turkish ...

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