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Advertisement Erdogan lifted the ban on Kurdish language, allowed the Kurds to teach in their mother tongue, and set up radio and television networks to broadcast in Kurdish.
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Ragip Soylu, Time, 18 July 2025
Around 10 percent of the population in Iran identifies as Kurdish, roughly between 8 and 12 million people.
—Mandy Taheri, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 June 2025
How Drones Are Changing Modern Warfare On October 2, 2016, a drone fitted with explosives by the Islamic State group hit a position outside Iraqi Kurdistan’s capital, Erbil, killing two Kurdish Peshmerga troops and injuring two accompanying French special forces.
—Paul Iddon, Forbes.com, 2 June 2025
Mark Carney Wins New Term as Prime Minister Kurdish Distrust of Syria’s New Government Runs Deep
By Alissa J. Rubin and Daniel Berehulak
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After Federal Cuts, Food Banks Scrounge and Scrimp
By David A. Fahrenthold and Maddie McGarvey
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Albuquerque Has a Crime Problem.
—Devlin Barrett Doug Mills Tyler Hicks Elisabetta Povoledo, New York Times, 29 Apr. 2025
Later, Dunthorne travels to the site of the Dersim massacre, where chemical weapons developed by Siegfried’s employer were used in a genocidal attack on Kurdish Turks in the late 1930s.
—John Warner, Chicago Tribune, 12 Apr. 2025
In 2020, 117 Assyrian families in the Nahla Valley lost access to 75 percent of their lands after the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) in northern Iraq reversed a law intended to protect Assyrian ownership.
—David Faris, Newsweek, 17 Mar. 2025
His miserable life was terminated, along with another member of ISIS, in coordination with the Iraqi Government and the Kurdish Regional Government.
—Landon Mion, Fox News, 15 Mar. 2025
Related article Kurdish People Fast Facts Israel is also unlikely to welcome Ocalan’s call, given its support for Kurds in Syria, experts say.
—Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN, 28 Feb. 2025
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Ragip Soylu, Time, 18 July 2025
Around 10 percent of the population in Iran identifies as Kurdish, roughly between 8 and 12 million people.
—Mandy Taheri, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 June 2025
How Drones Are Changing Modern Warfare On October 2, 2016, a drone fitted with explosives by the Islamic State group hit a position outside Iraqi Kurdistan’s capital, Erbil, killing two Kurdish Peshmerga troops and injuring two accompanying French special forces.
—Paul Iddon, Forbes.com, 2 June 2025
Mark Carney Wins New Term as Prime Minister Kurdish Distrust of Syria’s New Government Runs Deep
By Alissa J. Rubin and Daniel Berehulak
Page A6
After Federal Cuts, Food Banks Scrounge and Scrimp
By David A. Fahrenthold and Maddie McGarvey
Page A11
Albuquerque Has a Crime Problem.
—Devlin Barrett Doug Mills Tyler Hicks Elisabetta Povoledo, New York Times, 29 Apr. 2025
Later, Dunthorne travels to the site of the Dersim massacre, where chemical weapons developed by Siegfried’s employer were used in a genocidal attack on Kurdish Turks in the late 1930s.
—John Warner, Chicago Tribune, 12 Apr. 2025
In 2020, 117 Assyrian families in the Nahla Valley lost access to 75 percent of their lands after the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) in northern Iraq reversed a law intended to protect Assyrian ownership.
—David Faris, Newsweek, 17 Mar. 2025
His miserable life was terminated, along with another member of ISIS, in coordination with the Iraqi Government and the Kurdish Regional Government.
—Landon Mion, Fox News, 15 Mar. 2025
Related article Kurdish People Fast Facts Israel is also unlikely to welcome Ocalan’s call, given its support for Kurds in Syria, experts say.
—Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN, 28 Feb. 2025
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“Kurdish.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Kurdish. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.
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