Kurdistan generally comprises the following four regions: southeastern Turkey (Northern Kurdistan), northern Iraq (Southern Kurdistan), northwestern Iran (Eastern Kurdistan), and …

Jan 16, 2025 · Kurdistan, broadly defined geographic region traditionally inhabited mainly by Kurds. It consists of an extensive plateau and mountain area, spread over large parts of what …

Kurdistan Region (KRI) [c] is a semi-autonomous federal region [d] of the Republic of Iraq. [13] [14] It comprises four Kurdish-majority governorates of Arab-majority Iraq: Erbil Governorate, …

Kurdistan (Kurdish: کوردستان, romanized: Kurdistān, lit. 'Land of the Kurds'; [ˌkʊɾdɪˈstɑːn] (listen)), [3] or Greater Kurdistan, [4][5] is a roughly defined geo-cultural region in the Middle East …

Oct 15, 2019 · Between 25 and 35 million Kurds inhabit a mountainous region straddling the borders of Turkey, Iraq, Syria, Iran and Armenia. They make up the fourth-largest ethnic group …

Jan 31, 2025 · Kurd, any member of an ethnic and linguistic group concentrated in the Taurus Mountains of southeastern Anatolia, the Zagros Mountains of western Iran, portions of …

Aug 16, 2019 · Nestled on the margins of Turkey, Iran, Iraq, and Syria, Kurdistan is one of the planet’s most volatile regions, and its people are the world’s largest stateless group. The …

4 days ago · In the 1980s, Abdul Rahman Ghassemlou, who led the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran (KDPI), also emerged as a major figure in the Kurdish struggle for autonomy. …

2 days ago · Ankara regards the SDF as an extension of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, a Kurdish separatist militant group it has designated a terrorist organization. Turkey has …

The Kurdistan region of Iraq is an autonomous region in northern Iraq. It borders Iran in the east, Turkey in the north, and Syria in the west. The region encompasses most of Iraqi Kurdistan, …