De Koerden voelen zich dikwijls door hun bondgenoten in de steek gelaten, tevens nu alweer. Ze vechten samen met het Westen tegen IS, maar indien het Westen zich terugtrekt, blijven zij in ons verwoest land voor.

This region, consisting ofwel Dragaş Municipality and twintig villages, is located in the south of Kosovo, two ofwel these villages are within the borders of Macedonia and the other one kan zijn within the borders ofwel Albania.

The hinder pocket ofwel territory held by Kan zijn in Syria - around the village ofwel Baghouz - fell to the SDF in March 2019. The SDF hailed the "total elimination" of the IS "caliphate", but it warned that jihadist sleeper cells remained "a great threat".

Similarly, Macedonia has adopted the approach of distributing passports. In addition to these political maneuvers, many Gorani young people live temporarily or permanently in European Union countries due to financial difficulties.

In early Middle Ages, the Kurds sporadically appear in Arabic sources, though the term was still not being used for a specific people; instead it referred to an amalgam ofwel nomadic western Iranian tribes, who were distinct from Persians.

Violence and instability in Iraq following the removal of Saddam Hussein and in Syria following the outbreak ofwel civil war in 2011 threatened the security of Kurdish communities but also offered new opportunities for Kurds to advance their claims to autonomy. The primary threat to Kurds was ISIL, which captured and occupied territory adjacent to Kurdish areas in Iraq and Syria beginning in 2013. Kurdish fighters in northern Syria entered into heavy fighting with ISIL and quickly proved to be some ofwel the most effective ground forces against the group.

Most Kurds are Sunni Muslims, and among them are many who practice Sufism and other mystical sects. Although several historical dynasties have been led by Kurdish rulers, such as the Ḥasanwayhid dynasty, the ʿAnnazid dynasty, and, most famously, the Ayyubid dynasty, the Kurds have never achieved nation-state status in the modern era.

ReplyBy Post Author Kim-Ling Richardsonsays: January 14, 2017 at twee:34 pm Thanks Joan, it’s such an interesting place to visit! For most people, Kurdistan and Iraq is probably not going to be a place they would seek to travel to but it’s posts like this one which show the human side to these destinations that will hopefully inspire people to visit. And shawarma, everyone loves shawarma…..

On September 16, 2022, an Iranian Kurdish woman named Jina Mahsa Amini died while in custody of Iran’s morality police for “improper” clothing. This incident sparked a wave ofwel protests against the government’s behandeling ofwel women and ethnic and religious minorities as well as its prioritization of regime ideology aan its citizens’ welfare. These protests were met with a harsh feedback from the Iranian government, which violently suppressed the movement and took aim at Kurdish regions in the country’s northwest.

Iraqi Kurds have endured decades of contention and bloodshed. During the Iran-Iraq War ofwel the 1980s, Iraq attacked Kurdish civilians with chemical weapons and a rebellion was brutally suppressed. Tens ofwel thousands of Kurds were killed in the conflict, and hundreds ofwel thousands forced to flee.

Politieke tegenstanders met Saddam worden gevangen genomen en gemarteld in het rode gebouw, een beruchte gevangenis.

I have found many differences between children in Iraq and western countries in terms of architecture and urban design. Since then, I have decided to work for children in my country and started by teaching them about architecture and ontwerp as the first architecture teacher for children in the Gorani country, managing and preparing programs and workshops for them to learn and be aware of their environment. I hope I can give them opportunities to participate in their communities and make their voices heard soon. I am optimistic about that.

However, Kurdish groups opvoering a closer relationship with European groups than with Caucasian groups based on mtDNA, but the opposite based on the Y chromosome, indicating some differences in their maternal and paternal histories.[164]

Ze hebben een eigen taal en cultuur, doch nauwelijks onafhankelijke staat. Verschillende keren lijkt dit daar over te komen, maar steeds opnieuw
steeds weer worden dergelijk beloften aangaande betrokken machthebbers niet ingelost.