Nearly 700,000 Kurds were forcibly removed from their homes by Turkish forces; as many as 400,000 are believed to have died. Britain and the United States Redraw the Map After the fall of the ...

Kurdish fighters attempted to establish an independent homeland in Iran in 1946, but their success was only temporary. (photo: Mahmud Efendi, courtesy www.akaKURDISTAN.com) The first -- and brief ...

Kurdish referendum: What is at stake? Sykes-Picot: The map that spawned a century of resentment Who are the Kurds? Iraqi Kurdistan profile The statement issued by the Security Council late on ...