Definition: This ethnic group is found in northern Iran, northern Iraq, and eastern Turkey, and was targeted by Saddam Hussein in the 1990s when they wanted independence from Iraq.
The ethnic group in question are the Kurds. The Kurdish
people do not have their own state but they are the majority in the
autonomous region located in Iraq called the Iraqi Kurdistan. It is estimated
that there are up to 45 million Kurds around the world. They speak a language called
Kurdish and are classified as a part of the Iranian Peoples which is a group of speakers
of the Iranian language from the Indo-European
ethno-linguistic group.
