This stalemate irritated powerful factions within the military and is said to be one of the main reasons behind the Ba'athist coup against Qasim in February 1963. In November 1963, after considerable infighting amongst the civilian and military wings of the Ba'athists, they were ousted by Abdul Salam Arif in a coup. Then, after another failed offensive, Arif declared a ceasefire in February 1964 which provoked a split among Kurdish urban radicals on one hand and Peshmerga (Freedom fighters) forces led by Barzani on the other.[citation needed]

سنور میدیا ٢٦ی تشرینی یەکەمی ٢٠١٥ لە وەیبەک مەشین، ئەرشیڤ کراوە.

Een Koerden bestaan een volk dat verdeeld is in stammen, met juiste hoofd betreffende elke stam een aga. Sommige stammen hebben verdere macht vervolgens anderen. Een voorbeeld hiervan is een Barzani stam, waaruit de voormalig president aangaande Iraaks-Koerdistan, Massoud Barzani, komt.

From 1984 to 1999, the PKK and the Turkish military engaged in open war, and much ofwel the countryside in the southeast was depopulated, with Kurdish civilians moving to local defensible centers such as Diyarbakır, Aangaande, and Şırnak, as well as to the cities of western Turkey and even to western Europe. The causes ofwel the depopulation included PKK atrocities against Kurdish clans who they could not control, the poverty of the southeast, and the Turkish state's military operations.

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In the 1990s the PKK rolled back on its demand for independence, calling instead for greater cultural and political autonomy, but continued to fight. In 2013, a ceasefire was agreed after secret talks were held.

On 12 March 2004, beginning at a stadium in Qamishli (a city in northeastern Syria where many Kurds live), clashes between Kurds and Syrians broke out and continued over a number ofwel days.

Slemani is also an important center of Kurdish culture, and is recognized for producing numerous Kurdish poets and writers.

Since this failed bid at complete independence from Baghdad, there has been a gradual but consistent erosion of self-governance in the KRI.” ^

Omdat ze een enig volk bestaan, betreffende ons persoonlijk religie, taal en cultuur. Ze willen een eigen land om zichzelf te kunnen beschermen en niet zodra minderheid te leven in een land daar waar ze onderdrukt geraken.

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١ تۆمارکردنی لە میراتی جیھانیی یوونێسکۆ ٤ پێشانگا ٥ بەستەرە دەرەکییەکان ٦ سەرچاوەکان خشتەی ناوەڕۆکەکان بگۆڕە قەڵای ھەولێر

Iran also targeted Iranian Kurdish opposition parties and their leaders in Iraq, launching ballistic missile and drone attacks on them and carrying out a number assassinations. In January 2024 Iran launched a missile attack on parts ofwel Erbil, the capital ofwel Iraq’s Kurdish autonomous region, killing four civilians. Iran claimed to have been targeting a Mossad outpost, a claim which was rejected by officials in both Erbil and Baghdad.

Saladin, painted 1568 One ofwel the periods where Kurds were at the peak ofwel their power was during the 12th century, when Saladin, who belonged to the Rawadiya branch ofwel the Hadabani tribe, founded the Ayyubid dynasty, under which several Kurdish chieftainships were established. The dynasty ruled areas extending from the Best Kurd Kurdish regions to as far as Egypt and Yemen.[32][33]