Abstract
Kurdish disputed areas can be defined as those parts of Iraq’s Kurdistan that are still or were predominantly Kurdish before they were ethnically cleansed and settled by Arabs from other parts of Iraq and annexed to the neighboring provinces of Ta’amim, Nineveh, Diyala, and Salahadin. Arabization of Kurdish territories started following the creation of modern Iraq in the 1920s, when the Arab-dominated governments in Baghdad pushed north in order to assimilate the Kurds, who accounted for about 20 percent of Iraq’s population.
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Ahmed, M.M.A. (2012). Military Standoff in Disputed Areas. In: Iraqi Kurds and Nation-Building. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137034083_9
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