<h2>About:</h2>

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	<li>The Kurds are members of a large, predominantly Muslim ethnic group.</li>
	<li>They speak a language related to Farsi and live mostly in a mountainous region straddling the borders of Armenia, Iraq, Iran, Syria and Turkey.</li>
	<li>Treaty of S&egrave;vres:&nbsp;After World War I, Western powers promised Kurds their own homeland in the agreement known as the Treaty of S&egrave;vres.</li>
	<li>Treaty of Lausanne:&nbsp;But later the Treaty of Lausanne, ratified in 1924, divided the Kurds among the new nations of the Middle East.</li>
	<li>Today, there are more than 30 million Kurds living across the region, with about half of them in Turkey.</li>
	<li>Iraq is the only country in the region to have established an autonomous Kurdish region, known as Iraqi Kurdistan. Its parliament was founded in 1992.</li>
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Source :&nbsp;<a href="https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/explained-global/who-are-iran-minority-kurds-mahsa-amini-death-in-custody-8201052/" target="_blank">Indian Express</a>

Kurds

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Nationwide protests in Iran over the death of a young Iranian Kurdish woman in the custody of Iran’s morality police.

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Kurds

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Nationwide protests in Iran over the death of a young Iranian Kurdish woman in the custody of Iran’s morality police.

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