Definition: this ethnic group is found in northern iran, northern iraq, and eastern turkey, and was targeted by saddam hussein in the 1990s when they wanted independence from iraq.

The ethnic group in question are the Kurds. The Kurdish people do not have their own state but they are the majority in the autonomous region located in Iraq called the Iraqi Kurdistan. It is estimated that there are up to 45 million Kurds around the world. They speak a language called Kurdish and are classified as a part of the Iranian Peoples which is a group of speakers of the Iranian language  from the Indo-European ethno-linguistic group.

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