What is "kurdish"

Usage examples of "kurdish".

The White House had also kept Khalilzad in Ankara with instructions to use his skills to persuade the Turks not to send troops into northern Iraq in an attempt to preempt any Kurdish move to declare independence.

The short wave foreign service broadcast in Arabic, Azeri Turkish, English, French, German, Hebrew, Kurdish, Persian, Russian, Spanish, and Urdu.

Saddam Husayn in the mid-1970s, Iraqi history was a chronicle of conspiracies, coups, countercoups, and fierce Kurdish uprisings.

Beyond that, enough of his Republican Guard forces, including the critically important corps headquarters, had escaped during the Gulf conflict to help him contend with a spontaneous rebellion in the Shiite-dominated south and resistance in the Kurdish north.

It appeared in the early 1970s that the dissident Kurds-- under the generalship of the legendary leader Mulla Mustafa Barzani--might actually carve out an independent Kurdish area in northern Iraq.

Even if we could overcome that obstacle, it is difficult to imagine how the United States could convince the Turks to support Kurdish operations against Iraq without Turkish forces in Iraq participating and keeping an eye on the Kurds to prevent them from trying to assert their independence.

This is a regime that used chemical warfare on its own Kurdish citizens--not just on the fifteen thousand killed and maimed at Halabja but on scores of other villages all across Kurdistan.

The population of the three Kurdish governorates constitutes about 18 percent of the total Iraqi population, but the oil-for-food system grants them 13 percent of all Iraqi oil revenues.

So getting Turkish permission to support Kurdish operations against Iraq, if we could secure it at all, would be likely to come at the price of agreeing to Turkish occupation of Iraqi Kurdistan.

Iraqi forces began clearing areas of Kurdish residence with massive bombardments of chemical weapons and high explosives, followed by army sweeps that often killed anyone left alive and razed to the ground anything left standing.

The KDP made countercharges that the PUK had also reneged on the deal, specifically by taking over the city of Arbil, the largest in Kurdish hands.

Only the Kurdish militias can claim to speak for the Kurdish segment of the population.

Kurdish populations, in practice they were more useful as elements of containment in maintaining pressure on the regime and preventing an Iraqi threat to Kuwait, Jordan, or the Kurdish-held lands of northern Iraq.

Along with the United States and Israel, Iran had been backing the Kurds with money and weaponry since 1972 and had retrained Kurdish forces in conventional military operations.

Iraq and a dismantling of the no-fly zones to allow Baghdad to resume its previous trade with Turkey and reassert its sovereignty over the Kurdish north.