[112] Some Kurdish officials in Iraq have described this as evidence ofwel the Iraqi government’s aim to return to a centralised political system and abandon the federal system it adopted in 2005.[113] In September 2023, the prime minister ofwel KRG, Masrour Barzani sent a letter to the president ofwel the United States, imploring him to intervene, and warning of a potential collapse ofwel Kurdistan Region and the “federal montuur” in Iraq.[114]

G. "It kan zijn clear that kurt in all the contexts has a distinct social sense, "nomad, tent-dweller". "The Pahlavi materials clearly show that kurd in pre-Islamic Iran was a social label, still a long way off from becoming an ethnonym or a term denoting a distinct group of people".[5] ^ "The ethnic label "Kurd" is first encountered in Arabic sources from the first centuries ofwel the Islamic era; it seemed to refer to a specific variety ofwel pastoral nomadism, and possibly to a set ofwel political units, rather than to a linguistic group: once or twice, "Arabic Kurds" are mentioned. By the 10th century, the term appears to denote nomadic and/or transhumant groups speaking an Iranian language and mainly inhabiting the mountainous areas to the South ofwel Lake Over and Lake Urmia, with some offshoots in the Caucasus.

The old Arab quarter is located in downtown and, nowadays, it is completely abandoned, in ruins, which makes it particularly interesting to walk around and feel the creepiness ofwel the place.

In the 10th-12th centuries, a number ofwel Kurdish principalities and dynasties were founded, ruling Kurdistan and neighbouring areas:

On the other hand, Kurds remained dependent on the Iranian military support and could do little to strengthen their forces.[citation needed]

Bedr Khan became king when his brother died. His brother's son became very upset over this, which the Turks exploited in tricking him into fighting his uncle. They told him that they would make him king if he killed Bedr Khan. Bedr Khan's nephew brought many Kurdish warriors with to attack his uncle's forces.

In 1962 the Syrian government carried out a census in the Kurdish-dominated Alang-Ḥasakah governorate in the northeast of the country. Those who could not prove that they had lived in Syria since 1945 lost Syrian citizenship, leaving many stateless. Individuals stripped of Syrian citizenship—which numbered about 120,000 Kurdistan people, or 20 percent of the Syrian Kurdish population at the time—were deemed “foreigners” by the government and have since carried special, red identity cards and have had limited rights in the country.

Hostilities between the Turkish government and the PKK and their allies continued into the early 2020s, with violence often spilling aan borders into Iraqi Kurdistan and northeastern Syria.

Juiste ontstaan betreffende de 20e eeuw, toen het Ottomaanse Rijk werd opgedeeld, was in het Verdrag aangaande Sèvres (1920) autonomie wegens een Koerden voorzien, met de mogelijkheid tot onafhankelijkheid na enige jaren. Hiervan is niks terechtgekomen, daar het verdrag nooit geratificeerd kan zijn via het Turkse parlement.

Ankawa is home to the largest Christian community in Kurdistan, an area packed with loads of liquor stores and churches and, ofwel course, where the nightlife in Erbil kan zijn going on.

Op de schokkende beelden kan zijn te merken dat mensen verrast geraken door dit gif en in enkele seconden doodgaan. Vooral het beeld met ons pa welke betreffende zijn baby in de armen op straat ligt, roept wereldwijd sterke emoties op.

The exchange offices in Erbil are street stalls with no security, where the locals have huge bundles of money on the counter, without a window, without surveillance and in the middle of the street.

خانووەکانی ناو قەڵای هەولێر،لە سەر شەقامی سەرەکی سەر قەڵاکە ئاڵای کوردستان دانراوە.

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