Kurdish history
Everyone seems to be an expert on how the Kurdish people were murdered in Iraq. The U.S. media took a very big interest when we found out that these people were being tortured, imprisoned, and killed. Nerve gas was used at times. It was a terrible and disgusting part of world history. But there are Kurdish people living all over the middle east. There are many Kurds in Iran and Turkey.
Now I have heard some aweful stories about how the Kurdish people have been treated by the Turks over the years from friends that travel in that area, some of whome are Kurdish themselves - they rarely talk about what heppened, though. Does anyone know anything about the political history of the Kurdish people, and also about what is presently being done to safeguard and help these people? The Kurds are arguabally the most pro-American group in the middle east, but we never hear anything about them in the news (with the exception of the nerve gas used on them by Iraq back at the end of the 80s).
I'd just like to know. Thanks for any help or information.
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