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| 1 | a minority group in turkey and neighboring countries | 6 sets | |
| 2 | nationality of 25 million people. the kurds are not arab, turkic or persian, yet their traditional homelands are located in iraq, turkey and iran. the kurds have waged an ongoing rebellion for autonomy in these three countries, with limited success. saddam hussein has waged extensive military campaigns against the kurds in iraq, including gas attacks in 1988. after the persian gulf war, under the protection of a u.s. and uk maintained no-fly zone, the kurds enjoy relative autonomy and prosperity in northern iraq. the prospects for an independent kurdistan are minimal, given the refusal of turkey, iran and iraq to grant independence to their kurdish minorities. | 4 sets | |
| 3 | ethnic group in iraq, syria, turkey, and iran | 4 sets | |
| 4 | nationality of 25 million people. they are not arab, turkic or persian, yet their traditional homelands are located in iraq, turkey and iran. they have waged an ongoing rebellion for autonomy in these three countries, with limited success. saddam hussein has waged extensive military campaigns against them in iraq, including gas attacks in 1988. after the persian gulf war, under the protection of a u.s. and uk maintained no-fly zone, they enjoy relative autonomy and prosperity in northern iraq. the prospects for an independent kurdistan are minimal, given the refusal of turkey, iran and iraq to grant independence to their kurdish minorities. | 3 sets | |
| 5 | the ____________ are an example of an ethnic group that has historial homelands spanning many national borders. | 3 sets | |
| 6 | ethnic group that lives in northern middle east who faced discrimination | 2 sets | |
| 7 | people of turkish decent | 2 sets | |
| 8 | ethnic group decided by modern borders among turkey, iraq and iran, efforts to win autonomy led to repression | 2 sets | |
| 9 | forbidden to speak, publish or broadcast in their own language, nationalists continued to press for autonomy | 2 sets | |
| 10 | people that claim a homeland in parts of turkey, iran, and iraq | 1 set | |
| 11 | pkk, kurdish workers party, fought terrorist act of violence, the turks captured the leader of the pkk in 99 and the fighting died down. now the turkish gov. is allowing them to use their own language. | 1 set | |
| 12 | another displaced group, this ethnic group lives in several countries in an area referred to as kurdistan, they are a minority group in significant numbers | 1 set | |
| 13 | the largest ethnic groiup in the world without its own counrty | 1 set | |
| 14 | a nomadic trive found in the middle east who are persecuted in each country | 1 set | |
| 15 | nationality of 25 million people. not arab, turkic, or persian. traditional homelands are iraq, iran, and turkey. waged rebellion on autonomy in three countries with limited success. sadam hussein waged huge campaigns against them, including gas attacks in 1988. after gulf war, us and uk maintained no-fly zone where the kurds enjoy relative autonomy and peace in northern iraq. no independance | 1 set | |
| 16 | take up 20% of turkey's population | 1 set | |
| 17 | nationality of 25 million people. they are not arab, turkic or persian, yet their traditional homelands are located in iraq, turkey and iran. they have waged an ongoing rebellion for autonomy in these three countries, with limited success. saddam hussein has waged extensive military campaigns against the them in iraq, including gas attacks in 1988. after the persian gulf war, under the protection of a u.s. and uk maintained no-fly zone, the kurds enjoy relative autonomy and prosperity in northern iraq. the prospects for an independent kurdistan are minimal, given the refusal of turkey, iran and iraq to grant independence to their kurdish minorities. | 1 set | |
| 18 | nationality of 25 million people. not arab, turkic, or persian, yet their traditional homelands are located in iraq, turkey, and iran. they have waged an ongoing rebellion for autonomy in these three countries, with little success. saddam hussein has waged extensive military campaigns against the kurds in iraq, including gas attacks in 1988. after the persian gulf war, under the protection of the u.s. and u.k. maintained no-fly zone, the kurds enjoy relative autonomy and prosperity in northern iraq. the prospects for an independent kurdistan are minimal, given the refusal of turkey, iran, and iraq to grant independence to their kurdish minorities. | 1 set | |
| 19 | ethnic minority found in iraq, iran, syria & turkey | 1 set | |
| 20 | a nomadic tribe found in the middle east who are persecuted in each country | 1 set | |
| 21 | the ethnic minority in turkey and iraq whose efforts to win freedom have led to repression | 1 set | |
| 22 | a tribal people of the middle east who mostly live in turkey, northeast iraq, andiran. | 1 set | |
| 23 | the ethnic minority in turkey and iraq whose efforts to win freedom have led to repression. | 1 set | |
| 24 | a minority group in turkey that want their own country. | 1 set | |
| 25 | largest nation w/o state, located in northern iraq | 1 set | |
| 26 | 2% of iraqi population; sunni | 1 set | |
| 27 | speak kurdish, 20 million world wide, muslims | 1 set | |
| 28 | a minority group in turkey and neighboring countries. has no country for itself | 1 set | |
| 29 | an ethnic group in southwestern asia that has occupied kurdistan, located in turkey, iraq, and iran, for about a thousand years, and who have been involved in clashes with these three countries over land claims for most of the 20th century. | 1 set | |
| 30 | an ethnic people that live in iraq, syria, turkey, and iran; persecuted by saddam hussein | 1 set | |
| 31 | largest ethnic minority in the world without a homeland. | 1 set | |
| 32 | a manority group in iran, turkey, and irac, that has demanded self rule | 1 set | |
| 33 | people who live in the border areas of turkey, iraq, iran, syria, and the caucasian republics and have no country of their own | 1 set | |
| 34 | ethnic group in sw asia located in turkey iraq and iran for about 1000 years clash with these three contries over land claims for most of the 20th century | 1 set | |
| 35 | ethnic group w/o country | 1 set | |
| 36 | a member of a largely muslim people who live in southwest asia, in an area comprising parts of iraq, turkey, and iran. | 1 set | |
| 37 | an ethnic group that lives in the northern middle east, fought turkish forces to have freedom | 1 set | |
| 38 | a group of mountain people who live in armenia, iran, iraq, syria, and turkey | 1 set | |
| 39 | a largely sunni muslim group of people with their own language and culture; all kurds are sunnis but not all sunnis are kurds; | 1 set | |
| 40 | an ethnic group in sw asia that has occupied kurdistan, located in turkey, iraq, and iran, for about a thousand years, and who have been involved in clashes with these three countries over land claims for most of the 20th century | 1 set | |