Example sentences for: kurd

How can you use “kurd” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • From March to September 1988, the Iraqi army seized every Kurd in a vast "prohibited area" and carted off nearly 100,000 civilians for execution; it also used chemical weapons against the Kurdish population.

  • The WP says, for instance, that since Ocalan's arrest, tensions in Germany between Turk and Kurd "have reached the breaking point," with a Turkish cultural center in Hamburg and several Turkish fast-food stands already firebombed.

  • It added, "This is an essential condition for any settlement of the Kurd question."

  • They joined the Muslim crusades (Saladin, the 12 th -century Muslim hero who recaptured Jerusalem, was a Kurd).

  • On primordial identities: I don't believe in single identities, but there are root identities such as being a Basque, a Catalan, a Kurd, or an Occitan, especially when there is a need to assert such a root identity against a larger, sometimes more smothering polity or culture.


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