Kurdish people

The Kurdish people who live in southeastern Turkey, northeastern Syria, northern Iraq, and western Iran as of 2013 were the largest nation which had no independent nation state. A national rebellion which began in 1984 had claimed 40,000 lives by 2013. As of 2013 there were peace talks between Turkey and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK); although, ambitions for an independent state had been abandoned. In Syria the Democratic Union Party was engaged in the Syrian Civil War on behalf of Syrian Kurds. On April 25, 2013 an agreement was announced withdrawing Kurdistan Workers’ Party forces from Turkey by May 8, 2013. As of 2013 the Kurdish districts in the north of Iraq had substantial autonomy as a result of the Iraq war which deposed Saddam Hussein.