Kurdish official: Turkish warplanes bomb Kurdish area along Iraq-Turkey border, no casualtiesYAHYA BARZANJI
Republic of Turkey,Turkey- a Eurasian republic in Asia Minor and the Balkans; on the collapse of the Ottoman Empire in 1918, the Young Turks, led by Kemal Ataturk, established a republic in 1923 Kurd- a member of a largely pastoral Islamic people who live in Kurdistan; the largest ethnic...
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The source, who is close to the SDF, told Xinhua on condition of anonymity, that the artillery shelling targeted an SDF position in the Ras al-Ayn area, known in Kurdish as Sari Kani, in the countryside of the northeastern province of Hasakah. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights war m...
Indeed, they already enjoy considerable de facto control over the Kirkuk area. Ankara, for its part, has strongly signalled that excessive Kurdish autonomy and Kurdish control over Kirkuk are unacceptable, largely because of fears of the consequences for Turkey's Kurdish problem, and the ...
Kurds (kûrds, ko͝ords), a non-Arab Middle Eastern minority population that inhabits the region known as Kurdistan, an extensive plateau and mountain area, c.74,000 sq mi (191,660 sq km), in SW Asia, including parts of E Turkey, NE Iraq, and NW Iran and smaller sections of NE...
The Kurdish issue in the contemporary history is becoming more and more salient considering the geopolitical and strategic area of Middle East. Particularly in Turkey this issue becomes crucial for the future of the whole region since almost half of the worldwide Kurds live in Turkey, who consists...
. They are divided primarily among the four neighboring countries of Turkey, Iran, Iraq, and Syria, with additional populations scattered throughout western and Central Asia and, since the 1970s, other continents, forming a new global diasporic community (for estimates of the size of the ...
Historic Ethnicities of Kurdistan The contiguous Kurdish regions of Iran, Iraq, Turkey, and Syria sit in the north central area of the Middle East. Over the millennia, numerous ethnicities have migrated, settled or natively inhabited the area including Turks, Persians, Arabs, Kurds, Armenians, As...
"Turkey should have no hand in such area, neither do the extremist militants, which should not be allowed to get in or out of such a zone," he said. He noted that the security zone, which was discussed by Turkey and the United States, should not be controlled by any of the conflicti...