is there a country called kurdistan?
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No, there isn't.  The person pulling up Wikipedia should have looked at the last line of the first paragraph.\n\n"It is not an independent state."
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WELL, THE ONLY THING I HAVE EVER HEARD USING THAT NAME IS THE PRIESTHOOD HELD BY MEMBERS OF THE MORMON CHURCH. IT IS ALSO IN THE BIBLE TALKING ABOUT THE MELCHISEDEC PRIESTHOOD. IT IS SUPPOSED TO BE A LEVEL OF RIGHTEOUSNESS AND KNOWLEDGE ATTAINED AND CERTAIN ABILITIES GIVEN TO THE PERSON HOLDING THE PRIESTHOOD, SUCH AS BLESSING PEOPLE. AS FOR IT BEING A COUNTRY, I TRULY HAVE NEVER HEARD OF IT, AND I STUDY GEOGRAPHY QUITE A BIT. BUT NOT ALOT OF HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY, SO IT IS EASILY POSSIBLE THAT IT WAS THE NAME OF SOME COUNTRY IN TIMES PAST THAT NOW HAS A DIFFERENT NAME OR WAS SWALLOWED UP BY ANOTHER NATION. I SHALL RESEARCH IT FURTHER.
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Albania has sent small military [peacekeeping] units in Bosnia, Afganistan, Iraq, and in the near future Lebanon.\n\nEnvironmental Protection in Albania:\nhttp://enrin.grida.no/htmls/albania/reports/tech/docs/tec_inst.pdf
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Kurds are living large and having a wonderful time while their southern friends are killing themselves.  In addition, as long as the US is around the Turks can't come in and take their oil (as they so want to do).\n\nSo, as long as this Civil Ward (doh) - conflict I mean - continues they will build a strong country and be able to defend their new country that will not be part of Iraq when this is all said and done.\n\nInitially, the US wanted nothing to do with the Kurds having their own country.  But, while there is so many other problems we are leaving them alone and gave up on that thought.
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I don't believe that two separate countries is the best solution, especially considering that there are 3 major groups within Iraq that need to be taken into consideration (the Sunni's, Shiite's and the Kurds). A three state (as opposed to three country) solution might be workable but it would involve either going to war with Turkey or somehow managing to get Turkey to peacefully co-exist with a Kurdish state on its border; a serious issue considering their severe repression of their own Kurdish minority. If Iran and Syria are brought into the fold and are allowed to help quell the violence then that would be a beneficial way to start, but the problem is that it is more than likely that one or both will want something in return for their participation and assistance in helping secure Iraq.\nA three state solution also has other issues, relocation of Shiite's and Sunni's into their newly formed states would be a difficult task, as would the working of the govt. Oil and division of oil profits btw the three states would also have to be worked out.\nBut even with all the issues that must be worked thru, a three state solution with the participation of surrounding nations is the quickest and most viable in the long term. Even if there is a need for a UN presence in the country for a period.
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Nope. Turkey is an ally of America. There are American bases in Turkey and this airports are used to fly troops from Iraq to Germany. Turkey keeps watch over their boarder with Iraq. The only sore point and thing that could cause a war between the two are the Kurds. Currently many Kurds in Turkey want to form their own country. The Kurds in Iraq are also allies with the US and share a common boarder with the Kurds in Turkey. If they were to jon up Turkey may make war with the Turkish Kurds causing the Iraq Kurds to fight back, the US might then join in the war.
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Mostly Foreign states, but if you want one chosen i would have to say IRAN, a FASCIST state setting between two country's that will be working Democracies. Iran hates its own people and ARABS so much they kill them by the hundreds.
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I don't know what you mean. The official name of the country is the Federal Republic of Germany, or in German, Bundesrepublik Deutschland. Other than that, there's nothing.
21982
Burma is now called Myanmar\nIt gained independence from Great Britain on January 4 1948.
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No countries have done such things, groups within countries have done though.  For example, Islamic fundimentalists have waged war on western civilisation (not just Christianity I might add) but that doesn't mean all of the Middle East suddenly becomes an enemy.  Much in the same way, the Nazis were German but that doesn't mean all of Germany was an enemy during WW2, just the state that took presidence.
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there was never a state, country, or nation called "palestine", in all history, NOR has there ever been a culture, language, history or people called palestinian, until arafat in 63 used the term to apply to ARABS... Palestinians ARE arabs, and are no different, they are the same people. So keep on dreaming, Even when arabs occupied the areas of gaza, "the west bank", and half of jeruslam, for over 19 years they did not make a nation of palestine!!! which PROVES that this has nothing to do with so-called palestinians, but rather to remove the one jewish country on this planet!
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Good question. Jordan, Syria, and Iran.
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not really\nwhat intrests does india have in IRaq?\nsquat
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Iraq is like Yuoslavia.  Yuoslavia was an artificial country forced together by a strong dictator.  When the dictator was removed, the country fell apart. Iraq is one of the last remnants of the British-French colonial era.  It was cobbled together by the British as part of an effort to maintain a land route to India.  Iraq is not a homogenous group of people with a common heritage or religion. It consists of Kurds, Sunnis, and Shites.  The best thing for Iraq would be to split it up along the lines of these three groups, just as Yugoslavia disintegrated into several smaller entities.  Short of that, the only way to keep Iraq together as a cohesive unit will be for another strong dictator to appear and bring these diverse groups together by force. The concept of democracy as backed by the United States will never work in Iraq. After the Americans leave the country will either break apart in bloody war or be held together by a ruthless strongman.  Democracy is not and has never been a viable option.
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Iran (Persian: ايران) is a Middle Eastern country located in Southwest Asia. It borders Armenia, Azerbaijan (including its Nakhichevan exclave), and Turkmenistan to the north, Pakistan and Afghanistan to the east, and Turkey and Iraq to the west. In addition, it shares the Persian Gulf waters with Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates.\n\nFrom 600 BC until 1935, the country was referred to in the West as Persia. On March 21, 1935, Reza Shah Pahlavi issued a decree asking foreign delegates to use the native term Iran in formal correspondence. [2] A dispute exists about the country's current official name. After Persian scholars' protested, Mohammad Reza Shah in 1959 announced both "Persia" and "Iran" could be used interchangeably. In 1979, the Iranian Revolution eventually led by the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini established a theocratic Islamic Republic. Iran retained its name and its political title was changed to the Islamic Republic of Iran.
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"There are several suggestions for the origin of the name of Iraq; one dates back to the Sumerian city of Uruk (or Erech). Another suggestion is that Iraq comes from the Aramaic language, meaning "the land along the banks of the rivers."\n\nUnder the Sassanid dynasty, there was a region called "Iraq Arabi" which referred to the southern part of modern Iraq. Al-Iraq was the name used by the Arabs themselves for the land since the 6th century"
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Kurd is an ethnicity and not a religion, they are Muslims. they come from northern Iraq between Turkey and Iraq.\n\nShiites and Sunnis are Muslims too they ALL worship Allah and adhere to the same Quran which is ONE Quran.\n\nthe difference between Sunnis and Shiites is a political difference stems from after the death of Prophet Muhammad (pbuh).\n\nShiites believe that the successor of the Prophet should be a descendant of Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) while Sunnis believe that it should be based on Votes.\n\nthe difference in religion is on the Hadith, they don't use the Hadiths that were narrated by the Prophet's companions, ONLY the ones narrated by Ali the Prophet's cousin (may Allah be pleased with him).