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American University of Iraq, Suliamania. IRAQ Sunni/Shi’a areas.

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Page 1: American University of Iraq, Suliamania. IRAQ Sunni/Shi’a areas.

American University of Iraq, Suliamania

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IRAQ

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Sunni/Shi’a areas

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Where Kurds Live

Turkey

Iran

Iraq

Syria

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Who Are the Kurds• Largely Sunni Muslim• Have their own language (related to Persian)• Live in a mountainous region of SW Asia that includes parts of Iraq, Iran, Turkey, Syria.• Between 25 and 30 million• Traditionally pastoralists – after WW1, farmers• One of the longest ethnic histories in the Middle East –

2400 BC

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Post World War 1 Following Defeat of the Ottoman Empire

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Britain and France Divided up the Ottoman Empire

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Short Iraq History

• A British Mandate 1917

• 1921 Kingdom of Iraq declared

• British imported/imposed a Heshemite King: Faisal

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1946 Mahabad Republic: Iran

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Iraqi Kurdistan: 1992 – 2005U.S. No fly zone

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KDP vs PUK

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ISIS Control

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Recent Activity

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Acronyms & Kobane: Syrian Kurds

KRG Kurdish Regional Government

KDP – Iraqi Kurd – Kurdish Democratic Party: (Barzani)

PUK – Iraqi Kurd - Patriotic Union of Kurdistan: Talabani

PKK Turkish Workers Party

PYD - Syrian Kurdish Party

KNC – Syrian Kurdish party

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The Kurdish Regions of Turkey, Iraq, Syria and Iran