Kurds or Kurdish people are an Iranian ethnic group native to the mountainous region of Kurdistan in Western Asia. Since the 1970s, the European Court of Human Rights has condemned Turkey for the thousands of human rights abuses against Kurds. In recent years, the Turkish dictator Recep Erdoğan has made life difficult for the Kurds.
STOCKHOLM FEBRUARY 1: Kurds or Kurdish people are an Iranian ethnic group native to the mountainous region of Kurdistan in Western Asia, which spans southeastern Turkey, northwestern Iran, northern Iraq, and northern Syria. The Kurdish population is estimated to be between 30 and 45 million.
After World War I and the defeat of the Ottoman Empire, the victorious Western allies made provision for a Kurdish state in the 1920 Treaty of Sèvres. However, that promise was broken three years later, when the Treaty of Lausanne set the boundaries of modern Turkey and made no such provision, leaving Kurds with minority status in all of the new countries.
Since the 1970s, the European Court of Human Rights has condemned Turkey for the thousands of human rights abuses. The judgments are related to executions of Kurdish civilians, torturing, forced displacements systematic destruction of villages, arbitrary arrests murdered and disappeared Kurdish journalists.
In recent years, the Turkish dictator Recep Erdoğan has made life difficult for the Kurds. But luckily, he will only be a parenthesis in the history of the world, even if you factor in possible future coup attempts and election fraud.
Officially protected death squads are accused of the disappearance of 3,200 Kurds and Assyrians in 1993 and 1994 in the so-called “mystery killings”. Kurdish politicians, human-rights activists, journalists, teachers and other members of intelligentsia were among the victims. Turkish government also encouraged Islamic extremist group Hezbollah to assassinate suspected PKK members and often ordinary Kurds.
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