Friday, October 11, 2019

Five Things You Should Know About the Kurds

Via David

 Kurds take part in a demonstration in Arbil, the capital of the northern Iraqi Kurdish autonomous region, on October 10, 2019 against the Turkish offensive in northeastern Syria. - Syria's Kurds battled to hold off a Turkish invasion on October 9 after air strikes and shelling launched a long-threatened operation …

Turkey’s invasion of northeastern Syria to drive the Kurds away from the Turkish border is bringing more Western attention to the Kurds than they received during the long and bloody Syrian civil war, where they played a key role in defeating the Islamic State.

Here are some important things to know about the Kurds.

There is no unified Kurdish state: The Kurds are an ethnic group spread across Syria, Iraq, Turkey, Iran, and Armenia. They are one of the largest ethnicities in the Middle East, but they do not have a common political system, religion, or even a universal language.

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2 comments:

  1. True. News media should specify that the syrian kurds are the ones we are talking about. But since we cant depend on them for a accuracy about anything else, this seems unlikely. Even in syria there are at least 3 major groups. Some worked with us, some worked with isis. If you look at the map, the kurds now dominate half of syria in an area where they used to dominate a small fraction of that. Where did all those new kurds come from? They were always there.

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    1. Thanks for the info and they sure have some pretty girls. :)

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