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=Persecuting the Kurds=

Kurds in Syria
Accusations of Syrian Arab racism and apartheid, especially against the Kurdish minority, comes from Kurdish human rights organizations. and others.

Kurds in Turkey
The European Commission Against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) reported about the Kurds in Turkey, that, their 'freedoms of expression, assembly and association continue to be "severely curtailed, especially in practice" and that Kurds continue to be "subject to prejudice and stereotyping" and that "Kurds who publicly or politically asserted their Kurdish identity or use[d] Kurdish in the public domain risked censure, harassment, or prosecution...' As well as wide threats and violence continue to be targeted against the Kurds.

The Turkish State has been accused of rampant racism against the Kurdish minority by Kurdish activists. and of conducting a systematic "policy of socioeconomic apartheid." Some have expressed that the Kurds are the "blacks" (inferiors) of Turkey