article_snippet: About a fifth of Turkey's population is Kurdish -- a minority long living under cultural oppression, most of a minority in the underdeveloped southeastern part of Turkey.
article_snippet: Northern Syria, southern Turkey and northern Iraq have been home to millions of Kurds for thousands of years.
article_snippet: There are also millions of Kurds in Iran, where they make up about 10% of the mostly Persian nation's population.
article_snippet: But tensions between the sides sparked again when the predominantly Kurdish-populated city of Kobani was invaded by ISIS in October and Turkey didn't directly intervene.
highlights_snippet: Kurds make up about a fifth of Turkey's population .
  