Sentence examples for kurdistan from inspiring English sources
proper noun
A region in the Middle East inhabited mostly by the Kurds. It encompasses parts of Turkey, Iraq, Iran and Syria.
The troops from 2nd Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment were flown into Arbil, the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan, last week to prepare for a possible deployment of Chinook helicopters on a mission to save families from a little-known religious sect who were stuck on a mountainside.
And in March, Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan government said analysis of soil and clothing samples showed IS used chlorine gas in a car bomb attack in January.
The Iraqi flag flies above the governor's heavily defended mansion together with the flag of Kurdistan.
The allegation by the Kurdistan Region Security Council, stemming from a 23 January suicide truck bomb attack in northern Iraq, did not immediately draw a reaction from Isis, which holds a third of Iraq and neighbouring Syria in its self-declared caliphate.
North begins with footage of a few members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' party (PKK) playing a game in an open field.
Kurdistan got bigger; so did its security headache.
The peace process that followed the 2013 ceasefire with the Kurdistan Workers' party (PKK) may now also receive a much-needed shot in the arm, after a recent period of stalemate and sporadic violence.
Many blame the lack of progress on the ongoing peace process between the Turkish government and the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' party (PKK), whose guerrillas have been fighting Ankara for the past 30 years, as well as AK party blunders in Syria.
Demirtas has been the target of fierce campaign attacks by Erdogan, who belittled him a "pretty boy" who is merely a front for the outlawed separatist Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK).
Instead Turkish jets bombed the Kurdistan Workers Partyy near the Iraqi border, the first such military action since peace talks with the Kurdish rebels began two years ago.
It is quite possible that the leader of the Kurdistan Workers Partyy (PKK), whose 15-year-old insurgency in Turkey's south-east has cost about 30,000 lives, will indeed be hanged (see article).
