Kurds in a sentence

And by the way, the Kurds were also allied with Iran all those years of Saddam because Saddam killed the Kurds.

The Kurds and the area they hold must come back under Syrian government control or Turkey will grab it and will put the Kurds under its boots.

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday he hopes he can mediate between Turkey and the Kurds following Turkey's offensive on U.S.-allied Kurds in northeast Syria.

Are the 2,000 U.S. troops in Syria really up to that task, should the Turks decide to cleanse the Syrian border of Kurds, or should the Syrian regime decide to take back territory occupied by the Kurds?

While those Kurds who are sympathetic to the PKK constitute a natural base for Demirtas and his HDP, he has worked hard to make inroads among the more conservative and pious Kurds who have tended to vote for the AKP.

Both among Turkish and Iraqi Kurds there have been an increasing number of Kurds converting to Christianity.

For ethnic minorities like the Kurds, it’s illegal to officially use Kurdish names or practice Kurdish traditions.

However, the Kurds are the most populous stateless people in West Asia.

Meanwhile, there were immediate tensions within the coalition over questions of regional autonomy, with Pahlavi and his supporters deeply hostile to any suggestion of de-centralisation in favour of Iran's non-Persian ethnic minorities such as the Kurds.

Nasr explained that after Iranian Kurds mostly boycotted the 1979 referendum that established the Islamic Republic, many have been seeking safety in Iraq’s Kurdistan region, where they have established political organizations opposing the Iranian regime.

Neither America nor Europe will stick its hand in this fire purely for the good of Turks or Kurds.

The area has been a flashpoint for years, as ethnic Kurds have sought to incorporate the oil-rich province of Kirkuk and other territories into the Kurdish region, a proposition strongly resisted by the Iraqi government.

Thirteen of them were Kurds, and four were Balochi prisoners.

While Western governments largely ignored Saddam’s Anfal campaign in the 1980s, they were more supportive of Iraqi Kurds in the aftermath of the Gulf War, instituting a no-fly zone to protect them against aerial attacks.

According to Der Standard, the Austrian has been a keen traveler to dangerous locations, visiting Afghanistan in the 1980s and, a few years ago, visiting Kurds fighting against the Islamic State group in northern Syria.

Ally with Armenia, the Kurds, Israel, and any other state or power threatened by Turkey.

As a microcosm — Syria has Sunnis, Shiites, Alawites, Kurds, Christians and Druse — whenever central control is loosened, it is a source of insecurity for every sect, so they often reach outside for help.

It’s in the process of pushing the Kurds south.

Kurds started to arrive in around the late 1990s and, according to a support organization, Kurdish residents in the prefecture now number over 2,000, most of them from Turkey.

Sayyed Nasrallah: While not large, our neighborhood was diverse, home to Lebanese, Palestinians, Kurds, Armenians, and Maslakh Arabs, all of whom shared a common experience of poverty.