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Nebel et al. (2001) also found that the Cohen modal haplotype, considered the most definitive Jewish haplotype, was found among 10.1% of Kurdish Jews, 7.6% of Ashkenazim, 6.4% of Sephardim, 2.1% of Palestinian Arabs, and 1.1% of Kurds. The Cohen modal haplotype and the most frequent Kurdish haplotype were the same on five markers (out of six ...
This is the timeline of the Turkish-Kurdish conflict.The Kurdish insurgency is an armed conflict between the Republic of Turkey and various Kurdish insurgent groups, [1] [2] which have demanded separation from Turkey to create an independent Kurdistan, [3] [4] or to have autonomy [5] and greater political and cultural rights for Kurds in Turkey. [6]
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Talks between politicians from Turkey’s pro-Kurdish party and jailed Kurdish leaders have been gathering steam as they try to end 40 years of fighting between the state and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK. The latest peace effort comes at a time of heightened instability and fundamental changes reshaping the region.
Kurdish-inhabited areas in the Middle East (1992) Maunsell's map of 1910, a pre-World War I British ethnographical map of the Middle East, showing the Kurdish regions in yellow (both light and dark) Kurdish (Kurdish: Kurdî or کوردی) is a collection of related dialects spoken by the Kurds. [50]
Three Kurdish protestors were shot dead when trying to enter the Israeli consulate in Berlin to protest alleged Israeli involvement in his capture. [149] Although the capture of Öcalan ended a third cease-fire which Öcalan had declared on 1 August 1998, on 1 September 1999 [110] the PKK declared a unilateral cease-fire which would last until ...
The Kurdish Hezbollah insurgency was a period of assassinations, armed clashes, kidnappings, and other assaults led by the Kurdish Hezbollah between the 1980s and 2000s. The insurgency started when Kurdish Hezbollah was first founded, and was led by Hüseyin Velioğlu until he was killed by Turkish police in 2000, and then by İsa Altsoy from 2001 until he announced the group's disarmament in ...
First Iraqi–Kurdish War (1961–1970) KDP: Iraq Syria: Kurdish Victory . Iraqi-Kurdish Autonomy Agreement; Second Iraqi–Kurdish War (1974–1975) KDP Iran: Iraq: Defeat. Iraq re-established control over Kurdistan; Kurdish Rebellion of 1983 (1983–1989) KDP PUK Iran: Iraq: Defeat. Al-Anfal Campaign; Kurdistan Region–PKK conflict (1983 ...
On 6 March, Released data stating that 1,250 militants had been killed since July of last year in the Nusaybin, Dargecit and Derik districts of Mardin Province. The report further more stated that over 3,000 explosives targeting security forces had been defused and 2,307 barricades and ditches were dismantled and filled. [citation needed]