Example sentences for: kurds

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

  • "And if the aim of the intervention is to protect oppressed minorities, why, people ask, doesn't NATO intervene in Turkey, whose human rights record vis-a-vis the Kurds is as bad as it can be?"

  • Turkish Kurds don't demand separation, only limited autonomy, and Turkey ought to grant that to keep the peace.

  • The Kurds have spent most of the last two millennia fighting against, or allying with, the Arabs, the Persians, and the Turks.

  • The PKK has murdered Turks who teach Kurdish children, Kurds who side with the Turks, and thousands of Turkish soldiers.

  • A story that had been lurking in the back pages for weeks--the saga of on-the-lam Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan--explodes today into everybody's lead with Ocalan suddenly in Turkish custody following his dramatic capture by Turkish operatives in Kenya, and Kurds across Europe rising up in often violent protest.


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