But the Kurdish lands that are now controlled by Mr Hussein have been heavily Arabised.
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They're working together, the different Kurdish parties, and there's a kind of economic boom.
It is largely, you know, almost entirely Kurdish and they agree on their common future.
At present, the three-province Kurdish region is the only such region in the country.
PKK. Mr Erdogan must himself tilt back and seek again to accommodate his Kurdish compatriots.
Several Kurdish refugees in Harrisonburg have been convicted of violating the act for sending money overseas.
Mr. AMIR Rashid (Kurdish Refugee): Everybody knows Saddam Hussein was destroying Kurdistan villages, city, everything.
Ms. NIA ZLATIF (Teacher, Iraq): (Through translator) It is a disgusting flag for the Kurdish people.
It has a strong propaganda arm, which includes the Kurdish television channel MED-TV, based in London.
Drivers honked horns as passengers hung out of windows, cheering and waving Kurdish banners.
The Kurdish paramilitary group Kongra-Gel declared an end to its five-year unilateral ceasefire in June.
The PKK launched its armed campaign for an ethnic Kurdish homeland in south-east Turkey in 1984.
Turks have long been taught Kurdish identity politics is a threat to national unity.
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Sherko Abbas, a Kurdish-Syrian exile living in the US heads the Kurdistan National Assembly of Syria.
The boycott began in early March after parliament held a budget vote without Kurdish members present.
The Kurdish Regional Government has a huge incentive to protect both Gandur and his investments.
So long as the Kurdish problem, in particular, festers, Turkey cannot be a truly healthy democracy.
They all belonged to Alevis, a Turkish and Kurdish-speaking Shiite offshoot who vastly outnumber Arabic-speaking Alawis.
In the Kurdish north, in Sulaymaniyah, drivers threw rocks at gas stations, demonstrating against the government.
Turkish authorities have arrested thousands of Kurdish activists, intellectuals and politicians in the past several years.
And honour crimes are not a uniquely Kurdish phenomenon, says Leyla Pervizat, an Istanbul-based expert.
Mr Bilici says the government's new tactic is to coerce Kurdish youths into becoming agents.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the Turkish prime minister, blamed the Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party (BDP).
The militants consider Kurdish leaders traitors for cooperating with U.S.-led forces in the invasion of Iraq.
Turkey also is worried about Syrian support for the Kurdish PKK and its own Alevis minority.
Because you have to remember that Turkey also has problems with the Iraqi-Kurdish region there.
The government's response was to lock up thousands of Kurdish politicians, including BDP mayors.
Kurdish rebels known as the PKK have intensified their attacks, and Turkey has responded in kind.
NPR's Ivan Watson begins this report in the predominantly Kurdish town of Batman in southeastern Turkey.
The spectre of a Kurdish renaissance, courtesy of the Americans, is jangling Turkish nerves.
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