Recent history of the Kurds includes numerous genocides and rebellions, along with ongoing armed conflicts in Turkish, Iranian, Syrian, and Iraqi Kurdistan. Kurds in Iraq and Syria have autonomous regions, while Kurdish movements continue to pursue greater cultural rights, autonomy, and independence throughout Kurdistan [when defined as?].

6 天之前 · A Kurd is any member of an ethnic and linguistic group concentrated in a contiguous area including southeastern Turkey, northeastern Syria, northern Iraq, and western Iran. Though the Kurds have long been one of the largest ethnic groups in the region and command some level of autonomy, they have never had a nation-state of their own.

Kurdish history in the 20th century is marked by a rising sense of Kurdish nationhood focused on the goal of an independent Kurdistan as scheduled by the Treaty of Sèvres in 1920.

2019年8月16日 · Kurdish forces fought against the Islamic State when it began to capture Iraqi towns in 2014. Today, the Kurds are spread across four nations. Who are they? The world’s largest stateless ethnic...

2019年10月15日 · The Kurds are one of the indigenous peoples of the Mesopotamian plains and the highlands in what are now south-eastern Turkey, north-eastern Syria, northern Iraq, north-western Iran and...

Kurdistan (Kurdish: کوردستان, romanized: Kurdistan, lit. 'land of the Kurds'; [ˌkʊɾdɪˈstɑːn] ⓘ), [5] or Greater Kurdistan, [6][7] is a roughly defined geo- cultural region in West Asia wherein the Kurds form a prominent majority population [8] and the Kurdish culture, languages, and national identity have historically been based. [9] .

2017年10月1日 · Indigenous to a mountain region in the northern Middle East, the Kurds are the largest stateless nation in the world. The fourth largest ethnic group in the Middle East, around 25 million...

2015年7月30日 · The Kurds are the world’s largest nation without a state. How many are there? There is no ethnic census on the Kurds by country, but estimates indicate that they form a population of between 20...

The Kurds are a non-Arab ethnic group of between 25 and 35 million people and are one of the world’s largest populations without a state. The mention of an independent Kurdistan dates back to 1920 when the Treaty of Sèvres dissolved the Ottoman Empire, suggesting the creation of an autonomous Kurdish state.

Kurdish history is deeply intertwined with the geography and the politics of the modern Kurdish regions. The contiguous Kurdish regions of Iran, Iraq, Turkey, and Syria sit in the north central area of the Middle East.