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The Human Factors and Behavioral Sciences Division (HFD) is a division of the Science and Technology Directorate of the United States Department of Homeland Security.Within the Homeland Security Advanced Research Projects Agency, HFD applies social and behavioral sciences to improve detection, analysis, and understanding and response to homeland security threats.
To secure U.S. interests and reputation, Washington must deter Turkey’s aggression.
Introduction to homeland security: Principles of all-hazards risk management (Butterworth-Heinemann, 2011) Ramsay, James D. et al. Theoretical Foundations of Homeland Security: Strategies, Operations, and Structures (Routledge, 2021) Sylves, Richard T. Disaster policy and politics: Emergency management and homeland security (CQ press, 2019).
Then-Lt. Col. John Abizaid speaking with some Kurds in Northern Iraq during Operation Provide Comfort, 1991 Operation Provide Comfort and Provide Comfort II were military operations initiated by the United States and other Coalition nations of the Persian Gulf War, starting in April 1991, to defend Kurdish refugees fleeing their homes in northern Iraq in the aftermath of the Gulf War, and to ...
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The Kurdish population of Turkey has long sought to have Kurdish included as a language of instruction in public schools as well as a subject. An experiment at running private Kurdish-language teaching schools was closed in 2004 because of the poor economic situation of local people. [ 35 ]
The Kurds were deported from Azerbaijan SSR, Georgian SSR, and Armenian SSR by the Soviet secret police NKVD in 1937 and 1944 and sent to special settlements in Central Asia. [1] During the July 1937 deportation, approximately 1,325 Kurds were deported. [2] In March, 3,240 Kurds and Azerbaijanis were deported from Tbilisi. [3]
The Kurdish Studies Network was established following the Kurdish Studies Conference, held at the University of Exeter in 2009. In an interview with the Rudaw news agency, Welat Zeydanlıoğlu, the KSN founder, noted that the network came about, "because there was no real communication and connection between scholars and researchers who study the Kurds, the Kurdish question, Kurdish society ...