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Kurds are America’s allies and friends with whom we share strategic interests and values. Kurds are a force for good in Anatolia and Mesopotamia. To secure U.S. interests and reputation ...
A second wave of Kurdish immigrants arrived in the 1990s fleeing Saddam Hussein's genocidal Anfal Campaign in northern Iraq. The most recent wave of Kurdish immigrants arrived as a result of the 2011 Syrian Civil War and the 2014 Iraqi Civil War, including a number who worked as translators for the U.S. military. [5]
Kurds account for 9% of Syria's population, a total of around 1.6 million people. [249] This makes them the largest ethnic minority in the country. They are mostly concentrated in the northeast and the north, but there are also significant Kurdish populations in Aleppo and Damascus. Kurds often speak Kurdish in public, unless all those present ...
New leaders in Washington and Damascus may expose longtime U.S. partners to Turkish incursions.
Biji Kurd u Kurdistan [a] on paper in front of the Western Wall, Jerusalem, Israel. Biji Kurdistan (Kurdish: بژی کوردستان, romanized: Bijî Kurdistan, [b] Kurdish pronunciation: [ˈbɪʒɪ kuɾdɪsˈtɑn]; English: Long live the land of the Kurds) [1] [2] [3] is a popular slogan expressing Kurdish patriotism and support for Kurdistan's independence.
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Kurdistan (Kurdish: کوردستان, romanized: Kurdistan, lit. ' land of the Kurds '; [ˌkʊɾdɪˈstɑːn] ⓘ), [5] or Greater Kurdistan, [6] [7] is a roughly defined geo-cultural region in West Asia wherein the Kurds form a prominent majority population [8] and the Kurdish culture, languages, and national identity have historically been based. [9]
The most frequent Kurdish haplotype was shared by 9.5% of Kurds, 2.6% of Sephardim, 2.0% of Kurdish Jews, 1.4% of Palestinian Arabs, and 1.3% of Ashkenazim. The general conclusion is that these similarities result mostly from the sharing of ancient genetic patterns, and not from more recent admixture between the groups.