Their homeland, an area they call Kurdistan, straddles four modern-day states: Turkey, Iraq, Syria and Iran.
There are more than 30 million Kurds in the world.1
Kurds - The Facts
The Kurds – the fourth-biggest ethnic group in the Middle East – are described as ‘the largest nation without a state’. (Where accurate statistics are lacking, we have gone with ‘reasonable’ estimates.)
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