Facts you need to know about the Kurds during Operation Epic Fury

 The Kurds are an ethnic group of 50-70 million people living mostly in Turkiye, Iraq, Iran and Syria.



They speak a language related to Farsi (Persian) and are mostly Sunni Muslims.
International treaties in the 1920s divided Kurdish lands between newly-made countries, leaving the Kurds without a state of their own.
Kurdish groups have fought for autonomy or independence in all 4 countries over the past century.
Turkiye: Kurds make up about 20% of the population; a Kurdish armed group (PKK) has fought the state since 1984 in a conflict killing over 40,000 people.
Iraq: Kurds in the north run a semi-autonomous region with their own government but are in tensions with the government of Iraq, especially over oil profits.
Syria: during the civil war, Kurdish fighters partnered with the US against the Islamic State from 2014, controlling much of the northeast until 2026.
Iran: Kurds make up about 10% of the population and face repression; Kurdish areas were a focal point of mass unrest in 2022 and 2025.
On 28 February 2026, the US and Israel launched a military campaign against Iran, targeting nuclear and military sites.
The US has been in talks with Iranian Kurdish groups about providing military support, but no Kurdish ground operations inside Iran have taken place so far. The Kurds are caught between a geographical area that is hostile to their aspirations for independence and or statehood. Iraq is the only country that have granted the Kurds a semi-autonomous region due to US and Coalition regime change in 2003.

In all the other countries where the Kurds are divided they still struggle to speak their languages and practice their cultural rights. Only future will tell whether the Kurds, largest nation on the planet without a country, will have been allowed to have a state of their own.

Finally, I have to say that Kurds are also one of the nations that stays loyal to the Western world even though the West have always betrayed them. The Kurds adopt and advocate for pro-western values like Human rights and democracy, rule of law and equality because they have been prosecuted for centuries and as minorities in the Middle East they always struggled to survive.




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