Word: kurdish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...helpful and friendly -if they were sure the police weren't looking -and Low is convinced that American prestige is still high there. It was much the same in the purple mountains of Northern Iran on the Soviet frontier, where Low spent some time last summer with a Kurdish chieftain of the Shikakki tribe, listening to a portable radio churning Russian-sponsored incitements to revolt while the chief conveyed his high regard for Americans and obviously meant...
...seemed clear that if the oil deal were junked by parliamentary vote (as appeared very likely), Russia would have to back down or use force. Force was always a possibility. Red troops and their Kurdish adherents were reported massing across the border, and a U.S. observer said that north Persian cities were having "invasion jitters." Gavam did not seem unduly worried. He knew that he had friends, and that his friends expected him to stick to his guns...
...Republic. Precept and propaganda had already aroused a strong separatist urge among Iran's Armenians. At any moment blood might call to blood across the boundaries. In skilled Soviet hands, this interplay of nationalisms would be a potent instrument of policy. Recently, in Azerbaijan, a pro-Russian Democratic Kurdish Party significantly burgeoned into being...
Athwart the Oil Arteries. Russia's demand for Kars had far-reaching implications. Physically the region is a remote forested plateau, once part of Armenia, now predominantly populated by Kurdish shepherds and bandits. It has fairly valuable salt mines, and rigorous winters. But strategically, Kars is a bastion commanding the entrance from Turkey into Russia and from Russia into Turkey...
...across Russian Georgia, south of the Caucasus range where the Germans are trying to cross. They hold, too, the middle shores of the Caspian, a pathway the Germans may try to follow southward from Astrakhan. And they have an internal front in Persia to master as well. The wild Kurdish tribesmen of the hills and the milder people of the lowland towns love neither the British nor the Russians; many still harbor Nazi spies, take Nazi money, and even spend Persian money to help the Germans from within. Last week the British seriously suspected that a looming famine in wheat...