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Map Showing Extent of Kurdish Populated Areas of the Middle East
This map shows those areas of Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey inhabited by Kurds. Kurds represent an ethnic minority in all four of these Middle Eastern states. Since 2003, Kurds have administered a semi-autonomous region in Iraq. In Turkey, where a separatist movement has existed since the 1970s, their political situation is more tenuous. Even so, Kurds often perform an important interstate function in this area where connections between Kurds living in different states represents an important cultural and commercial link.
Name: Kurdish Lands (location map) 1992
Material: Digital Image
Size: 982 x 802 (630 KB)
Date: 1992
Place of Origin: Work of a Central Intelligence Agency Employee made during the course of the person’s official duties; Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection at The University of Texas at Austin
Source and Registration#: Wikimedia Commons. Link to resource
(accessed May 4, 2010).
Orit Bashkin
Assistant Professor of Modern Middle Eastern History, University of Chicago
