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Kurds locked in one more losing war? (have Iranian help in war for freedom)
; Kurds locked in one more losing war? Fierce Kurdish tribesmen...Turkey and Iran, too, and for the first time in modern memory, Kurds are at war with all three nations at once. But they are pawns...larger struggle-- the Iraq-Iran War--and when that ends, the Kurds and their dream will surely be crushed. ...
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KURDS: The Kurds in Iran: The Past, Present and Future
; KURDS The Kurds in Iran: The Past, Present and Future, by Kerim Yildiz and Tanyel B. Taysi...organization (NGO) that has successfully argued numerous cases involving ethnic Kurds, mostly from Turkey, before the European Court of Human Rights. He also...
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KURDS: The Kurds in Syria: The Forgotten People
; KURDS The Kurds in Syria: The Forgotten People, Kerim Yildiz. London, UK and Ann Arbor...p. 153. Index to p. 160. $55. In recent years a number of studies on the Kurds of Iraq, Turkey, and even Iran have appeared. With the exception of a few...
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They deserve a break; Kurds, in Iraq and elsewhere.(Kurdish prospects and rewards)(Kurds and the war in Iraq)
; The Iraqi Kurds have had to trim their demands but they...be fulfilled? The self-rule that the 4m Kurds in northern Iraq have enjoyed since the...Kurdish aspirations. But since the Iraqi Kurds are surrounded by jumpy neighbours with...
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Wretched Kurds. (the Kurds of Iraq) (editorial)
; Wretched Kurds No assistance for Iraq until it ends its persecution THE Kurds, it seems, are destined to be either forgotten or persecuted...minority for the support it gave Iran during the Gulf war. Kurds were the victims when President Hussein pioneered the...
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Rebellion in the mountains.(Stateless Peoples--Kurds)
; The Kurds are people of Indo-European origin. They...half of the world's 25 million to 30 million Kurds live in Turkey, making up more than 20 percent...separate Kurdistan. No longer free to roam, Kurds had to abandon their seasonal migrations...
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"Good Kurds, Bad Kurds" Contrasts U.S. Policies Toward Kurds in Iraq and Turkey
; "Good Kurds, Bad Kurds" Contrasts U.S. Policies Toward Kurds in Iraq and Turkey Pat McDonnell Twair is a free-lance writer based in Los Angeles. Photojournalist Kevin McKiernan has been working on a documentary, "Good Kurds, Bad Kurds: No Friends...
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Iraqi Kurds Set to Vote On Sunday; Unity, Autonomy Are Chief Goals
; Iraqi Kurds vote Sunday in their first free elections, and whatever the...in Baghdad, to a worried international community and to the Kurds themselves. A year ago, when 2 million Kurds fled to Iran and Turkey to escape Iraq's avenging army after...
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State of mind.(KURDISTAN)(tension between Kurds and other ethnic and religious groups in Iraq)
; Iraq's Kurds disliked the Study Group's suggestion that...nationalism ... The increasingly confident Iraqi Kurds sometimes helped Turkey fight against the...they say they will no longer kill fellow Kurds. The Economist 12.20.07 Even as Kurdish...
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The lucky ones? Iran's Kurds; Iran's Kurds enjoy new freedom.(International)(Brief Article)
; AMONG the Kurds scattered across the Middle East, those in Iran have one clear advantage. The Iraqi Kurds' experiment in de facto independence, now...readiness to sponsor it (see article). Turkey's Kurds pin their hopes for autonomy on the belief...
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