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.

  • 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.

  • The Rome newspaper La Repubblica accused Germany of breaking European Union accords, with the result that "the whole territory of Germany is in a state of siege by the Kurd intifada."

  • The target of the rioters' wrath was not primarily the Kurd's principal foe Turkey, but mostly Greek and Kenyan embassies throughout Europe, because Ocalan was in Kenya under the protection of Greek diplomats when he was seized.


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