"After 2,000 years, Kurds still seek a home
By Alissa J. Rubin, Times Staff Writer
OVER the last two decades, about 20 new countries have been recognized by the United Nations and no doubt others are on the way. Of course, some of these — such as Bosnia or the Baltic states — were not entirely 'new,' having experienced some form of national recognition in an earlier era. By contrast, in the last 2,000 years, the Kurds have never had their own country. They are the largest ethnic group to have lived in permanent diaspora. Will the more than 30 million Kurds now living in a region larger than Texas, one that spreads from eastern Turkey, across northern Iraq and into Iran, succeed in obtaining their own nation? "
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