Stateless Nation: The Kurds
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Stateless Nation: The Kurds
Unreliable, untrustworthy traitors, or nationalist,
freedom-loving patriots, or what?
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Point of View• Turkey, Iraq, Iran, and Syria may see
the Kurds as unreliable, untrustworthy traitors who want to break apart those countries.
• The Kurds are a nation – a people with a sense of common ethnicity, history, and purpose. They see their cause as nationalist patriotism.
• Neither the UN or any country has taken up their cause and supported the creation of an independent Kurdistan.
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Where the Kurds Live
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One View of a Kurdish State
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Some Productive Areas
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Hard work pays off
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Some Marginal Land
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Some Barren Land
Once a part of the Roman EmpireOnce a part of the Roman Empire
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Some Scenic Land
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Some Urban Landscapes – The Old and the New
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Iraq & Genocid
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Halabja Gas Attack, 1988
After the attack and before reconstruction
After the attack and before reconstruction
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Saddam Hussein ordered the use of weapons of mass
destruction
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Desolation After the Attack
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Those who didn’t die were left scarred physically and
emotionally
The wounded
The wounded
The mourners
The mourners
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Halabja has been rebuilt, but the horror has not been
forgotten.
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1991 Gulf War
• Kurds backed the attacking allied forces against the government of Iraq.
• The northern No-Fly Zone was established to stop Saddam Hussein from retaliating against the Kurds.
• What will happen to the Kurds in Iraq if there is another war in 2003?
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The Future?• As long as there
are Kurdish people, there will be a Kurdish nation.
• Will there ever be a Kurdish state for the Kurdish nation?