So have young Kurds, though their political leaders have been wary of speaking out.
Mr. SALIH MUTLAQ (National Dialogue Council): It cannot be accepted, the Sunnis is as much as the Kurds.
Kurds and Iraqis have long fought over Iraq's northern region, known as Iraqi Kurdistan.
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The Iraqi Kurds are close American allies, but they also have strong ties with Iran.
So the Kurds have been used to kind of running things for themselves for a while.
This one is for crimes against the Kurds in military campaigns in the late 1980s.
But the truth is that the Kurds have figured out a model that works.
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Many Kurds now worry that a strongman may once again be emerging in Baghdad.
The Kurds had previously run the show there, thanks largely to the Arab boycott.
The Kurds' quest for autonomy in Iraq's rugged, oil-rich north has been Baghdad's recurring nightmare.
The Kurds would remain autonomous in their northern redoubt, retaining control over their peshmerga militias.
He brought in Arabs and put them in Kirkuk and threw out the Kurds.
Numbering between 2.5-3 million, Kurds make up some 15 percent of the Syrian population.
For decades, Kurds fought for independence from Saddam Hussein's government and paid harshly for it.
As a result, the Kurds were mostly protected from Saddam but not from each other.
The Kurds have worked well with both the Shiite-led government and the United States so far.
"The AKP government actually did more for the Kurds than anyone up until now, " Pope said.
The Sunnis and the Kurds don't want him, and that's really stalled progress as well.
Yet until the Kurds' demands are met that wing is unlikely to be discarded.
Largely free from Saddam's depredations, the Kurds have practiced the arts of self-rule and commerce.
Not only would that mean increasing the Kurds' chances of holding on to the provincial council.
The Kurds are the largest ethnic minority in Turkey, making up roughly 20% of the population.
It's home to a volatile mixture of Sunni Muslims, Shiite Muslims, Sunni Kurds, even Christians.
Under Saddam Hussein, the minority Sunni Muslims wielded power, often through violence against Shiites and Kurds.
After years of mutual hostility, Turkey and the Iraqi Kurds are at last talking.
In the wake of the uprising, President Assad offered Kurds citizenship and other benefits.
Kurds on both sides of that border depend on trade that crosses the line.
The PKK has spent two decades fighting for autonomy for Kurds in southeastern Turkey.
Kurds are spurning mosques staffed by state-appointed imams in favour of Kurdish-language prayers in fields.
The religiously minded, centralist Shia disagree on several big issues with the more secular, federalist Kurds.
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