Who Are The Kurds?
With ISIS all over the news, it's easy to forget that there are many more groups in Iraq fighting for control. One of these groups of people are the Kurds and they're ...
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In Iraq right now, the Sunni Militant group ISIS is fighting against the Shiite run government for control of most of the country. But those aren't the only groups in Iraq. There is a whole other section of people called the Kurds, who are involved in the dispute, the politics, and pretty much everything else going in in the country. So, who are the Kurds and what do they want? Well, let's look at a map of Iraq. The Kurds live in this area, which makes them seem like a small group, but if you were to pull back to show more of the region, you'd see that the Kurdish people actually live across a large contiguous block of the middle east, that spreads across Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey. There are 15 to 20 million Kurds, with their own language and culture, living in th...
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In Iraq right now, the Sunni Militant group ISIS is fighting against the Shiite run government for control of most of the country. But those aren't the only groups in Iraq. There is a whole other section of people called the Kurds, who are involved in the dispute, the politics, and pretty much everything else going in in the country. So, who are the Kurds and what do they want? Well, let's look at a map of Iraq. The Kurds live in this area, which makes them seem like a small group, but if you were to pull back to show more of the region, you'd see that the Kurdish people actually live across a large contiguous block of the middle east, that spreads across Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey. There are 15 to 20 million Kurds, with their own language and culture, living in th...
