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Who are the Kurds?
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- Author(s)
- BBC News
- Publisher
- BBC
- Date
- First published 21 October 2014; updated 15 October 2019
- Original language
- en
- Link
- https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-29702440Accessed 14 September 2026
Editorial annotation
Explainer last updated in 2019; used only for dated background. Its statement that the KRG was created in 2005 conflicts with the Kurdistan Parliament’s account of 1992 and is not used.
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