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Kurdish mafia

Kurdish mafia: an umbrella label, not one organization, for Kurdish-background heroin networks in Europe, KRI-based people smuggling to the UK, PKK European fundraising (over EUR 30 million yearly), and mafia-style repression in Iraqi Kurdistan.

Kurdistan

Kurdistan: transnational region of the Kurdish people across Turkey, Iraq, Iran, and Syria; also the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, a federal region with Erbil capital, Peshmerga, 2017 independence referendum.

Kurdistan Communities Union

Kurdistan Communities Union (KCK, Koma Civakên Kurdistanê), umbrella confederation created by the PKK around Abdullah Öcalan's democratic confederalism, linking PKK/HPG, PYD/YPG, PJAK/YRK, and PÇDK across Turkey, Iran, Iraq, and Syria; governed by a council federation under the Kongra-Gel, terrorist-designated by Turkey and covered by the PKK/KCK disarmament framework.

Kurdistan Democratic Party

Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP; پارتی دیموکراتی کوردستان), Kurdish nationalist party of Iraq founded 16 August 1946 by Mustafa Barzani in Baghdad; led by Masoud Barzani, based in Erbil and Dohuk, dominant alongside the PUK.

Kurdistan Freedom Party

Kurdistan Freedom Party (PAK, Partiya Azadi ya Kurdistan), Iranian Kurdish opposition party founded 1991, based in Erbil, Iraq; led by Hussein Yazdanpanah; only major Iranian Kurdish party openly seeking independence; armed wing National Army of Kurdistan; joined 2026 five-party coalition.

Kurdistan Region

Kurdistan Region (Herêma Kurdistanê), the constitutionally recognized federal region of northern Iraq governed by the KRG from Erbil, with four governorates, borders on Iran, Turkey, and Syria, autonomy since 1991, and major oil reserves.

Kurdistan Workers' Party

Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK, Partîya Karkêren Kurdistan), Kurdish militant-political organization founded by Abdullah Öcalan in 1978; fought Turkey from 1984, over 40,000 killed; designated terrorist by US, EU, UK, NATO; dissolved armed structure in May 2025.

Kurds

Kurds (Kurdish people): an ethnic group of about 35 million spread across Turkey, Iraq, Iran, and Syria; the world's largest stateless people, speaking Kurmanji, Sorani, Zazaki and related dialects, with movements from the KDP and PUK to the PKK and SDF.

Kurds in Syria

Kurds in Syria, the largest ethnic minority (2 to 2.5 million, up to 10% of the pre-war population), centered in Afrin, Kobane, Jazira, Aleppo, and Damascus; marked by the 1962 citizenship stripping, wartime SDF autonomy, and the 2026 citizenship and language decree.

Kurds in Turkey

Kurds in Turkey, an estimated 18-20 percent of the population, are Turkey's largest ethnic minority. PKK insurgency 1984-2025, assimilationist language policy, and the post-2025 peace process mark the community's history.

Kurdzhips

Kurdzhips (Курджипс) is a Western Caucasus river in Adygea, Russia, a left tributary of the Belaya, and the name of a famous 4th-century BCE Scythian-era kurgan near Maykop studied by L.K. Galanina.

Oct 20, 2026

Kure, Hiroshima

Kure (呉市) is a port city in Hiroshima Prefecture on the Seto Inland Sea, once Japan's foremost naval arsenal town that built the battleship Yamato, now a shipbuilding and naval-heritage city.

Oct 15, 2026

Kureha Corporation

Kureha Corporation (株式会社クレハ) is a Japanese specialty chemicals and plastics manufacturer headquartered in Tokyo, founded in 1944 and known for fluoropolymers, bioplastics, and packaging products.

Kurei

Kurei is the stage name of Cecilia Rose Pendleton, a Los Angeles DJ and producer moving from trap and bass music into melodic UK garage and house.

Oct 22, 2026

Kurenivka tragedy

The Kurenivka tragedy (Куренівська трагедія) was a 1961 disaster in Kyiv in which a dam burst at Babyn Yar, sending a wave of mud onto the Kurenivka district and killing hundreds.

Sep 23, 2026

Kuresa

Kuresa, known as Kooraththazhvan, was a Srivaishnava theologian and poet of the Chola period, remembered as the chief disciple of Ramanuja at Srirangam and author of the Panchastava hymns.

Oct 20, 2026

Kuressaare

Kuressaare: FC Kuressaare (MTÜ Jalgpalliklubi FC Kuressaare), Estonian football club founded 14 March 1997 in Kuressaare, Saaremaa; nicknames Kure and Viikingid; long-time Meistriliiga/Premium Liiga member, 8th in 2026.

Kurfürstendamm

Kurfürstendamm (Ku'damm), Berlin's 3.5-km boulevard in Charlottenburg from Breitscheidplatz to Rathenauplatz; a 16th-century electoral riding path turned 53-m-wide boulevard by Bismarck's 1875 decree, opened as a boulevard with the 1886 steam tram, and the City West's main shopping street.

Kurgan

Kurgan: a Turkic-derived term for the earthen or stone burial mounds of Eurasian steppe nomads, from Yamnaya (3300–2500 BC) to Scythians and Sarmatians; also the name of Gimbutas' Indo-European origins hypothesis.

Kurgan hypothesis

The Kurgan hypothesis, also known as the Kurgan theory or steppe theory, places the Proto-Indo-European homeland in the Pontic steppe north of the Black and Caspian Seas.

Kurgan Oblast

Kurgan Oblast (Курганская область), a Russian oblast in the Ural Federal District formed 6 February 1943; capital Kurgan; agrarian-industrial, borders Kazakhstan 573.6 km; among Russia's lowest-income regions.

Kurganets-25 (Курганец-25)

Kurganets-25 (Курганец-25) is a 25-ton-class tracked, amphibious armored vehicle platform built by Kurganmashzavod for the Russian Army, planned as an IFV and APC, still in testing a decade after its 2015 debut.

Kurgus

Kurgus, known as Hagar el-Merwa, is an Egyptian New Kingdom rock-inscription site on the Nile in Sudan, with boundary tableaux of Thutmose I and Thutmose III.

Kurhan Perep'yatykha

Kurhan Perep'yatykha (Переп'ятиха), early Scythian burial mound of the late 7th century BC near Mar'ianivka, Kyiv oblast, Ukraine; excavated 1845 by Ivanishev with Shevchenko; 180 m² chamber, 14 burials, tomb of a Scythian leader.

Oct 15, 2026

Kuri (robot)

Kuri was a mobile home social robot developed by Mayfield Robotics, a Bosch-backed startup, sold in the US from December 2017 until operations paused in July 2018.

Oct 15, 2026

Kuriemat power station

Kuriemat power station, also spelled El-Kureimat, is a group of power plants on the Nile in Giza Governorate, Egypt, about 95 km south of Cairo.

Kurigalzu I

Kurigalzu I, called Kurigalzu the Elder, was a Kassite king of Babylon whose reign ended around 1375 BC. He rebuilt Babylonia extensively and founded Dur-Kurigalzu.

Kurigalzu II

Kurigalzu II, also known as Kurigalzu the Younger, was a Kassite king of Babylon in the 14th century BC, placed on the throne by the Assyrian king Aššur-uballiṭ I.

Kurigram District

Kurigram District (কুড়িগ্রাম জেলা), a border district in Rangpur Division, northern Bangladesh, made a district on 23 January 1984; nine upazilas, Teesta-Brahmaputra rivers, and Bangladesh's highest measured poverty rate.