Kurdistan
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Kurdistan is an historical region of the Middle East extending to Iran, Iraq, Syria and Turkey.[1]
According to the CIA Factbook, Kurdistan is home today to some 28 million Kurds, of whom 14.5 million are in Southeastern Turkey ("Bakur" or "Northern Kurdistan"), 6 million in Northwestern Iran ("Rojhilat" or "Eastern Kurdistan"), about 5 to 6 million in Northern Iraq ("Başûr" or "Southern Kurdistan") and less than 2 million in Northern Syria ("Rojava" or "Western Kurdistan").[2][3][4]
Some Kurdish nationalist organisations seek to create an independent nation state consisting of some or all of these areas with a Kurdish majority, while others campaign for greater autonomy within the existing national boundaries.[5][6]
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References
- ↑ "Why should Kurdistan become an independent country?"
- ↑ Kurdish Awakening: Nation Building in a Fragmented Homeland, (2014), by Ofra Bengio, University of Texas Press
- ↑ "The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2005". bartleby.com.Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css must have content model "Sanitized CSS" for TemplateStyles (current model is "Scribunto").
- ↑ "The modern division of Kurdistan"
- ↑ "The Kurdish Conflict: Aspirations for Statehood within the Spirals of International Relations in the 21st Century". Kurdishaspect.com. Retrieved 2011-05-13.Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css must have content model "Sanitized CSS" for TemplateStyles (current model is "Scribunto").
- ↑ Hamit Bozarslan “The Kurdish Question: Can it be solved within Europe?”, page 84 “The years of silence and of renewal” in Olivier Roy, ed. Turkey Today: A European Country?.
