Example sentences for: kurds

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

  • Turkey: Kurds constitute 20 percent of Turkey's 60 million citizens.

  • Now it is the Kurds who are defined as the "other" by Turks, Iranians, and Iraqis.

  • The piece also includes this ringing assessment from another expert: "The only military skill [the Iraqi Kurds] have ever demonstrated is the ability to fight each other over smuggling rights."

  • 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.

  • With no Iraqis to fight, the Kurds turned on each other . Civil war broke out in 1994, and more than 2,000 Kurds were killed before the United States brokered a peace in 1995.


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