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Kurdish-Inhabited Area

This map of the Middle East shows the area presently inhabited by the Kurds.
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  • Social Studies
  • Genocide

Kurdish-Inhabited Area

Kurdish-Inhabited Area

This map of the Middle East shows the area presently inhabited by the Kurds. At the end of World War I, the Kurds were promised their own independent homeland under the Treaty of Sèvres. The treaty was never ratified, and the Kurds were divided mainly between Turkey, Iraq, Iran, and Syria.

Credit:
US Central Intelligence Agency, 2002, Courtesy of Library of Congress

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