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Western allies made provision for Kurdish state in Treaty of Sevres.. ... Image copyright Image caption Some 1.5 Iraqi Kurds fled into Iran and Turkey the government began settling Arabs in areas with Kurdish majorities, particularly around the city of Kirkuk, forcibly..

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kurds: stateless people across four countries

Baghdad was furious and, in retaliation, seized a swathe of Kurdish-held territory, including oilfields that were the mainstay of the autonomous region’s finances. . In Iran, where a Kurdish uprising was harshly repressed in 1979, several Kurdish rebel groups have carried out..

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In response to Iraqi Kurdistan’s referendum on independence in early October, members of Iran’s Kurdish minority—an estimated population of six to eight million people—held widespread public celebrations, including in the . . . ... Until recently, the Party for Free Life in..

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iraqis choose barham salih as new president and adel abdul-mahdi as

BAGHDAD — Iraqis named president and minister designate Tuesday, capping five months of halting negotiations that played out amid widening unrest and rivalry between United States and Iran for influence over Iraq's leadership.. The selection of the men showed how the sectarian loyalties Iraq's..

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