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Kurdish Refugees in Turkey

Kurdish Refugees in Turkey
A Kurdish woman from Iraq sits with her children in a refugee camp in Turkey in April 1991. After losing the Persian Gulf War in early 1991, Iraq persecuted its Shia Muslim and Kurdish minorities, who then sought refuge in Turkey and Iran. When inundated with refugees, host countries often create camps to provide shelter and food to large numbers of displaced persons.
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