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Example: The Kurdish people have a rich cultural heritage and a distinct language that sets them apart from their neighboring countries.
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Kurd
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A member of the linguistically and culturally distinct people who speak Kurdish and inhabit those parts of Syria, Iran, Iraq, Turkey, and the former Soviet Union sometimes known as Kurdistan.
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Turkish nationalists stopped their convoy, smashed bus windows with stones, set their tyres ablaze and traded blows with the Kurds.Further violence on September 6th, between police and demonstrators, left at least one Kurd dead in the south-eastern province of Siirt.
"It is a carnival night," said 47-year-old Huseyin Durmaz, a Kurd.
With or without the AK, we will end the politics of pitching Kurd against Kurd".
Ismail, a Kurd, who took over as police chief in January, said he presided over a multi-ethnic force.
He was a Kurd, his deputy a Turkman and the secretary an Arab.
A secular Kurd who had the trust of the Shia establishment, one of Kamal's many duties was to secure Baghdad against terror attacks.
Ironically, the group was tolerated by the authorities in the 1990s because Hizbullah militants killed hundreds of left-leaning Kurd nationalists.Among the questions after the attacks were: why Turkey?
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The Kurds may be no match for the Turkish army, but they could still bog them down in another guerrilla war, aided and abetted by the 5,000 or so Turkish-Kurd fighters based in their territory.And what of relations with Europe?
The Iranians, like the Turks, pursue their rebels into Iraqi territory.The most zealous Kurd-bashers of all are the Iraqis.
It had been swept to power across the Kurd-dominated provinces in municipal elections in 1999, and makes no secret of its sympathy for the imprisoned Kurdish rebel chief Abdullah Ocalan and his PKK guerrillas.
Kurds are divided, though some of them support the revolution and have formed brigades fighting in Hasaka such as the Misha'al Tamou brigade, Azadi brigade and al-Kurd Falcons.
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