The Legality of the Creation of “Safe Zone” in Syrian Northern Borders with Turkey in Accordance with International Law by sattar azizi, Mohsen Akbari

“…On the other hand, Turkey's attempt to resettle Syrian refugees in the claimed safe zone, displaced from other parts of Syria, is being done to the detriment of the Kurdish population of Northeast Syria, and is in violation of international human rights and International criminal law.…”
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Humour, Stereotype, Difference, Racist ideologies, African-American, Incongruity, Superiority, Relief, John Eyres, John Michael McDonagh, Social corrective, Racism, by Zeynep Koçer, Mustafa Orhan Göztepe

“…In 2009, the Turkish government started the “Kurdish Initiative”, a comprehensive policymaking process, in an attempt to improve the democratic standards and civil rights of the Kurdish population. Even though the initiative ended in 2015, it made it possible for a significant number of independent films to emerge which deal with the Kurdish issue. …”
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Post-conflict Urban Renewal as an Ethnocratic Regime Practice: Racialized Governance of Redevelopment in Diyarbakir, Turkey by Deniz Ay, Kaner Atakan Turker

“…The central government authority's use of gentrification in practice illustrates the ethnocratic regime's spatial, political, and economic repercussions for the Kurdish population as the country's largest ethnic minority. …”
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Paget’s disease of bone: the first case reported in Iraqi Kurdish by Trefa Salih Hasan, Abdulsatar Kamil Faeq

“…To the author’s knowledge, scarce cases have been described in Iraq, none in the Kurdish population. Conclusion This case report elicits an extremely rare metabolic osseous disease that was radiologically diagnosed at venture when bone window computed tomography (CT) is performed for an unrelated indication.…”
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The Effect of Sex Differences and Family History as a Genetic Factors related to Autism Spectrum Disorder among Group of children in Erbil city, Kurdistan Region- Iraq. by Srwa S. Saleem ,Nihad A. Ameen

“…This study concludes that Sex Differences and Family History as genetic risk factors for developing autism among the Kurdish population.…”
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SELF-DETERMINATION OF THE KURDES IN SYRIA: ORIGINS, FORMS AND INTERNATIONAL PROSPECTS by M. Dyurre

“…The first one was the political activity of Kurds in neighboring countries, the second – the assimilation efforts of the Syrian authorities. Although the Kurdish population, basically, retained its identity, half a century of assimilation policy led to the erosion of the Kurdish ethnic enclaves in the north of the country. …”
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Assignment of Individuals to the Iranian Native Dog Populations Using Microsatellite Markers by Mahdiyeh Montazeri, Ali Akbar Masoudi, Rasoul Vaez Torshizi, Damoun Allahyar Khan Khorasani

“…The results indicated that the least and the most diversity for Sangsari population (0.53) and Kurdish population (0.72), respectively. The individual’s assignment was done using 7 different methods. …”
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Supratrochlear foramen frequency In three Iraqi populations by Ali Husham Abo Sablan, Melina Calmon

“…The STF was studied in 206 skeletonized adult remains (2 females, 204 males) of the Yazidi population, 49 skeletonized adult female of the Kurdish population, and 51 skeletonized adult male remains sampled of the Arab population. …”
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Mitochondrial DNA haplogroup study: residents of Sulaymaniyah city in the Iraqi Kurdistan Region may be genetically closer to European lineage by Han Nihad Mohammed Fadhl, Shad Arif Mohammed, Farhad M. Abdulkarim

“…However, no study was performed on the Kurdish population of Sulaymaniyah city (latitude 33.314690 and longitude 44.376759). …”
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Population genetic study of 17 Y-STR Loci of the Sorani Kurds in the Province of Sulaymaniyah, Iraq by Balnd M. Albarzinji, Farhad M. Abdulkarim, Shaho A. Hussein, Dlshad Rashid, Hayder Lazim

“…Results Seventeen Short Tandem Repeat markers on the Y chromosome (Y-STR) included in the AmpFLSTR™ Yfiler™ PCR Amplification Kit (Thermo Fisher Scientific, USA) were used to type DNA samples from the Sorani (Central) Kurdish population in Sulaymaniyah province. One hundred fifty-seven haplotypes were obtained from 162 unrelated male individuals. …”
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Mutation Screening in the Mitochondrial D-Loop Region of Tumoral and Non-tumoral Breast Cancer in Iranian Patients by Mansour Heidari, Samira Saee-Rad, Kazem Zendehdel, Reza Raoofian, Ramesh Omranipour, Cyrus Azimi, Babak Rahmani

“…Genomic DNA was extracted from 50 breast tumors and surrounding normal tissue pairs as well as from 50 unrelated normal breast tissues from Iranian Kurdish population. Subsequently, PCR amplification was performed using specific primers, and then PCR products were subjected to direct sequencing. 41 genetic variants were identified in mtDNA D-loop among tumoral and non-tumoral tissues but not in tRNAPhe and tRNAPro sequences. …”
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Application of Indirect Linkage Analysis for Carrier Detection of Hemophilia A in Kurdistan Region of Iraq: Usefulness of Intron 18 I T>A, Intron 19 III C>T, and IVS7 nt27 G>A Mark... by Aveen M. Raouf Abdulqader MD, MSc, Shwan Rachid PhD, Ali Ibrahim Mohammed MD, PhD, Sarwar Noori Mahmood MD, PhD

“…The current study illustrates the effectiveness of the Bcl I and Hind III markers for the diagnosis of HA carriers among the Iraqi Kurdish population.…”
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Determination of some heavy metals in imported rice grains (Oryza sativa) available in Sulaymaniyah market and evaluation of their health risk assessment by Shkofa Radha Ahmad ,Othman Kareem Qadir

“…Thus, the high consumption of rice contaminated with heavy metals can cause potential health risks to the Kurdish population in Kurdistan. More consideration should be given to contaminated rice and prevention and control measures should be taken.…”
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La guerra en Irak y la problemática kurda. Conflicto interno y crisis regional by Zidane Zeraoui

“…The invasion of Iraq in 2003 re-established the Kurdish problem, a matter which affects Iraq and neighbouring countries, particularly Turkey, where 40 % of the Kurdish population live. The present paper focuses on the analysis of the national question in general in order to understand the specificity of the Kurdish matter and the historical process, especially after the Sykes-Picot Agreement in 1916. …”
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Association between serum liver enzymes and hypertension using propensity score matching analysis: evidence from a large kurdish prospective cohort study by Mina Tahmasebi Fard, Farid Najafi, Shahab Rezaeian, Maryam Kohsari, Mehdi Moradinazar

“…This study was conducted to evaluate the association of liver enzymes with HTN among the Iranian Kurdish population. Methods This prospective cohort study was a part of the 5-years (2017–2021) follow-up phase of the Ravansar Non-Communicable Disease (RaNCD) cohort study in Kermanshah province, western Iran.The association between alanine aminotransferase (ALT), aspartate aminotransferase (AST), gamma-glut amyl transferase (GGT), and alkaline phosphatase (ALP) and HTN was investigated by Cox proportional-hazard model (CPHM). …”
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Chemerin rs17173608 and vaspin rs2236242 gene variants on the risk of end stage renal disease (ESRD) and correlation with plasma malondialdehyde (MDA) level by Hamid Nomani, Hamid Khanmohamadian, Asad Vaisi-Raygani, Ebrahim Shakiba, Maryam Tanhapour, Zohreh Rahimi

“…Also, in the presence of chemerin G allele, the risk of ESRD decreased by 0.79-fold (p = .048) in Kurdish population of Iran. The MDA serum levels in ESRD patients carrying the chemerin T/G + G/G genotype of rs17173608 T/G and also in carriers of A/A + T/A genotype of vaspin rs2236242 T/A were significantly higher compared to those in control subjects. …”
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Distribution of red cell antigens according to ABO, Rh and other rare blood group systems in Kurdish ethnicity by Hisham A Getta, Shaema S Amin, Najmaddin Khoshnaw, Belal A Muhammad

“…Objectives: to explore the distribution of red cell antigens and phenotypes of various blood groups among Kurdish population using different systems. Materials and Methods: five thousand blood donors attending the central blood bank of Sulaymaniyah province were randomly selected and tested for ABO and Rh antigens (D, C, c, E, & e) by using tube method. 500 donors were randomly selected and further analyzed using other blood group systems. …”
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Nrf2 mutation at rs6721961 and its association with Nrf2 target genes in Breast Cancer Patients with No history of Chemotherapy by M. Khazaei, S. Sajadimajd, S. Khazaei

“…Patients and Methods: In the case-control study, breast cancer patients and controls from the Western Kurdish population of Iran were selected to evaluate the genotype of Nrf2 (rs6721961) by PCR- restriction fragment length polymorphism. …”
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A Modern History of the Kurds, 3d rev. ed. by Othman Ali

“…Turkey, however, has pursued a policy that seeks to assimilate and, at times, even ethnically cleanse its Kurdish population. There is also continuity in the major powers’ manipulation of the “Kurdish card” in Iraq. …”
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Mutation Screening in the Mitochondrial D-Loop Region of Tumoral and Non-tumoral Breast Cancer in Iranian Patients by Babak Rahmani, Cyrus Azimi, Ramesh Omranipour, Reza Raoofian, Kazem Zendehdel, Samira Saee-Rad, Mansour Heidari

“…Genomic DNA was extracted from 50 breast tumors and surrounding normal tissue pairs as well as from 50 unrelated normal breast tissues from Iranian Kurdish population. Subsequently, PCR amplification was performed using specific primers, and then PCR products were subjected to direct sequencing. 41 genetic variants were identified in mtDNA D-loop among tumoral and non-tumoral tissues but not in tRNAPhe and tRNAPro sequences. …”
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