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Furthermore, the fall of the Soviet Union facilitated the migration of Kurds from the former Soviet Union to Ukraine. Most of these Kurds were from the Yezidi minority. Another wave of refugees came to Ukraine as a consequence of the first Nagorno-Karabakh War in 1993, which occurred in the region which was historically known as Red Kurdistan ...
In 1992, the Kurds of Iraq established a mission in Berlin, establishing direct contacts with the German government. Furthermore, the mission had to coordinate humanitarian and development aid from Germany to the Kurdish region, and informed the German public and media about the general situation in Kurdistan. [4]
There is a large Kurdish community in Germany. The number of Kurds living in Germany is unknown. Many estimates assume that the number is in the million range. [2] [3] [4] In February 2000, the Federal Government of Germany (Die Bundesregierung) estimated that approximately 500,000 Kurds lived in Germany at that time. [5]
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"Germany will remain Ukraine's strongest supporter in Europe," Scholz wrote on X, adding that he would promise Zelenskiy "further military equipment worth 650 million euros", to be delivered this ...
SDF-controlled territory (green), Turkish-occupied Afrin (red) in October 2018 The People's Defense Units (YPG), [a] also called People's Protection Units, is a libertarian socialist [4] US-backed [5] [6] Kurdish militant group in Syria and the primary component of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).
Part of a stateless ethnic group straddling Iraq, Iran, Turkey, Armenia and Syria, Kurds have so far been among the few winners of the Syrian conflict, controlling nearly a quarter of the country ...
A northern no-fly zone was established following the First Gulf War in 1991 to facilitate the return of Kurdish refugees. 1.5 million Kurds were displaced during the 1991 uprisings in Iraq [9] with cities like Tuz Khormato having a rate of displacement as high as 90%; at least 48,400 [10] Kurds starved to death due to displacements possibly ...