Geographical position of Kurdistan

Facts & Figures

• Asian nation without state• 190,000 km²–390,000 km²• 25 to 30 Million• Administratively divided between Turkey,

Iran, Syria, Irak and Armenia.• Kurdish, an indo-iranian language, is

spoken. • Most inhabitants are Muslim.

Language: How do you say in the language of your country?:

- Hello! - Choni- How are you? - To bashee?- My name is... - Mn nawm...- Yes - Baleh- No – Na'- Thank you - Supaas

The complexity

of the Kurdish

conflict is remarkable, since there are many territories

whose control is disputed.

Kurdistan owns an astonishing variety of landscapes.

Columns of the eldest temple in the world, aged over 11000 years,

in Ruha.

Other parts of the same temple.

Ancient bridge built by the Romans in Diyarbakir.

Kurdistan has no state and therefore no national government, but some of its inhabitants would want to

have one.

There is no head of

government in

Kurdistan, but

Abdullah Öcalan is

the head of the main

nationalist party. He is

currently inprisioned.

Kurdistan's wealth of high-grade pasture lands has long made it suitable for a pastoralist economy. Even nowadays

it remains the main sector.

Petroleum refinement is easily the most valuable and developed modern industry in Kurdistan.

The third sector is largely the smallest one in the country. It is mainly made up of civil servants and bank

workers.

“Baklava” is one of the

most appreciated food for the

Kurds.

folk costume,Traditional costumes are still usual in every day

live, mostly in rural areas.

famous author

Mehmed Uzun is probably the most well-known Kurdish author. He was responsible

for shaping a modern Kurdish literary language. He lived in Sweden as a political

refugee for almost 30 years. He died in 2007.

Arbil is the biggest city of the Kurdish Autonomous Region, which is located in Northern Iraq and is the

only tool of self-government the Kurdish people have.

Kurdish families

celebrating the new year

PKK (Kurdistan Workers' Party) is the main nationalist party, whick is currently illegal in Turkey. It has a parallel armed organisation, whick usually bears

attacks against the Turkish army and whose members we can see in this photo.

The Kurdish conflict remains forgotten by the main international organisations, even by the United

Nations.