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Where were kurds from?

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Kurds, or Kurdish people are a group of people that do not have there own state. Kurdistan is located in western mountains of Iran. But many Kurds moved to Iraq and Turkey and some to Syria.

In North of Iraq they have federal region called Kurdistan of Iraq.

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