An impassioned group of Nashville Kurds made a showing of their opposition to the threatened invasion of Iraqi Kurdistan by Turkish forces. They were in front of the Federal Courthouse today in Nashville.
“We have about 400 people here. You could say 98-percent are Kurds.”
That’s Jamil Sameen, an organizer of the Tennessee Kurdish Community Council. Estimates for Middle Tennessee’s Kurdish population range from 10-15-thousand, the largest in the country.
Last week, Turkey’s parliament authorized military action against the Kurdish Worker’s Party or PKK, a group that’s been fighting for Kurdish independence. Since then, the PKK has been accused of several bombing attacks in the region. Many Kurds continue to deny that the PKK is a terrorist organization, though that’s what the United States and European Union calls them.
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