Kurdistan

[ kur-duh-stan; Persian koor-di-stahn ]

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noun

a mountain and plateau region in SE Turkey, NW Iran, and N Iraq: inhabited largely by Kurds. 74,000 sq. mi. (191,660 sq. km).
any of several types of rugs woven by the Kurds of Turkey or Iran.

Kurdistan

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noun

a large plateau and mountainous region, between the Caspian Sea and the Black Sea, south of the Caucasus. Area: over 29 000 sq km (74 000 sq miles)

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He estimates across Rochdale there are more than 20 businesses that are fronts for criminal organisations and he says he sees many of the same people from Iran, Iraq and Kurdistan working in them.

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The PKK - or Kurdistan Workers' Party - has waged an insurgency since 1984, and is proscribed as a terrorist group in Turkey, the EU, UK and US.

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The advertisements - initially focused on the semi-autonomous Kurdistan Region of Iraq - will be displayed on social media, apps and news websites.

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Our minibus rattles as it takes us from Iraqi Kurdistan through Syrian oil fields, where jacks pumping crude oil line the roads.

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Turkey considers the SDF to be an offshoot of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, which it labels a terrorist group.

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Kurdish Kurds

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