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THE KURDISH TRIBESome speculate that the Kurds have been around since the time of Urartu from the 9th Century BC, known then as the Corduene/Carduchi. The Sumerian tablets called them the “People of Su in the land of Karda and also the Carduchi. They were not necessarily a military tribe but they were not welcoming to those who tread across their land, as mentioned in Greek sources: ”seven days spent in traversing the country of the Carduchians had been one long continuous battle, which had cost them more suffering than the whole of their troubles at the hands of the...