1. Kurds and Kurdistan

2. Kurds and Kurdistan

3. Areas of Kurdish inhabitants
25 Million live in Turkey, Syria, Iraq, Iran and Armenia
The largest nation without a state

4. Saddam and the Kurds
In the Iran/Iraq war in 1988 Saddam Hussein used nerve gas on the Kurds in retaliation for their alleged support for Iran. The attack killed 5000 and injured 10,000 more. It was declared a genocide by the United Nations.

5. Kurds and the 1st Iraq War
Operation Provide Comfort

6. Kurds and the 1st Iraq War
Talabani and Barzani
Peshmerga

7. The Kurds and Turkey Attaturk’s 1924 Decree Sheik Said Rebellion
“Mountain Turks”
1978 PKK (Partia Karkarem Kurdistan
40 K fatalities
Erdogan’s 1991 law change

8. Abdullah Öcalan / Apo Terrorist or Freedom Fighter
1978 PKK founded
1980 military coup bans all leftist groups, PKK moves to Syria
1984 1st successful guerrilla attack
1985 Turks recruit village militias to fight PKK
1987 Emergency laws in SE provinces
1993 Both sides announce total war/33 Turkish soldiers killed
1998 forced from Syria, & captured in Kenya 99
Only prisoner on İmralı Island in the Sea of Marmaris
1999 Cease fire and PKK leaves Turkey

9. Turkish Economic Development