How are the Kurds treated in Turkey?
Kurds have had a long history of discrimination perpetrated against them by the Turkish government. Massacres have periodically occurred against the Kurds since the establishment of the Republic of Turkey in 1923.
Is Turkey still killing Kurdish?
According to Turkish government sources, between July 2015 and May 2016, 2,583 Kurdish insurgents were killed in Turkey and 2,366 in Iraq, as well as 483 members of the Turkish security forces….Timeline of the Kurdish–Turkish conflict (2015–present)
| Date | 24 July 2015 – present (6 years, 9 months, 1 week and 2 days) |
|---|---|
| Status | Ongoing |
Does Turkey recognize Kurds?
The Turkish leader Mustafa Kemal also recognized the Kurds as a nation at the time and stated that provinces in which the Kurds lived shall be granted autonomy.
What is the conflict between Turkey and Kurds?
The Kurdish–Turkish conflict is an armed conflict between the Republic of Turkey and various Kurdish insurgent groups who have either demanded separation from Turkey to create an independent Kurdistan, or attempted to secure autonomy and greater political and cultural rights for Kurds inside the Republic of Turkey.
Was there ever a country called Kurdistan?
Iraqi Kurdistan first gained autonomous status in a 1970 agreement with the Iraqi government, and its status was re-confirmed as the autonomous Kurdistan Region within the federal Iraqi republic in 2005….Kurdistan.
| Kurdish-inhabited areas (according to the CIA, 1992) | |
|---|---|
| Location | Upper Mesopotamia and the Zagros Mountains |
Are Kurds indigenous to Turkey?
The Kurds are one of the indigenous peoples of the Mesopotamian plains and the highlands in what are now south-eastern Turkey, north-eastern Syria, northern Iraq, north-western Iran and south-western Armenia.