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What percentage of Iran's population was under 30 years of age in 2009?
Who is the director of Iranian studies at Stanford University?
What was a focus of Mir Hussein Mousavi's campaign?
What was a significant outcome of Mousavi's campaign?
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Who was the former Prime Minister of Iran from 1981-1989?
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What was a demographic characteristic of Mousavi's supporters?
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What was the primary method used by Iran's government to prevent news from being published about the demonstrations?
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What was the outcome of the Treaty of Sevres in 1920?
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What was the result of the Treaty of Lausanne in 1923?
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What percentage of Syria's Kurdish population were stripped of their Syrian citizenship in 1962?
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What is the estimated number of Kurds living in uncertainty in Syria today?
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What was the outcome of the Iranian authorities' digital purge of their opponents in 2009?
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What is the name of the region referred to by the Kurds as their homeland?
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What is the estimated number of Kurds in the world today?
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What is the name of the Kurdish administration that exists in Northern Iraq?
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What was the purpose of the Raja News website in December 2009?
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What was the primary reason behind the protests in Iran after the 2009 presidential election?
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What was the significance of the color green in the protests?
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How did the government initially respond to the protests?
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What was the outcome of the protests in terms of the number of reported deaths?
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What was the significance of Neda Agha Soltan's death?
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How did the Green Movement use social media?
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What was the reason behind the government's censorship of the internet during the protests?
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What was the Western media's label for the Green Movement?
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What was the outcome of the protests in terms of the response from the Supreme Leader?
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What was the significance of the Basij member's identity papers being taken and posted on the internet?
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What was the primary factor that led to the creation of the term 'genocide'?
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Why did Adolf Hitler see the Armenian Genocide as a valid guide for his plan?
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What was the significance of the Armenian Genocide in the context of modern genocide?
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In what year did Raphael Lemkin coin the term 'genocide'?
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What is a major obstacle to Kurdish unity?
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What was the context of Adolf Hitler's quote 'Who, after all, speaks today of the extermination of the Armenians?'?
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What was the estimated number of Armenians killed during the Armenian Genocide?
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What was the ideology behind the Armenian Genocide?
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Why were Armenians considered 'unbelievers' by the Ottoman Empire?
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What was the main reason for the Ottoman Empire's massacre of Armenians in 1894-1896?
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What was the fate of Armenian men who had been recruited into the Ottoman armies during World War I?
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What was the ultimate destination of the Armenian population during the Armenian Genocide?
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What was the significance of April 24th, 1915, in the Armenian Genocide?
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What was the result of the Armenian Genocide for the Armenian population?
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What was the treatment of Armenians under the Ottoman Empire's Islamic legal system?
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What was the primary purpose of the 'Special Organization' created by the Young Turks?
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What was the estimated percentage of the Armenian population that was destroyed during the Genocide?
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What was the fate of many Armenian orphans who survived the Genocide?
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What was the response of the American government to the Armenian Genocide?
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What was the outcome of the military trials held against the committers of the Armenian Genocide?
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What was the estimated number of Armenian orphans cared for by the Near East Relief?
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What was the condition of the Armenians observed by U.S. Consul Leslie Davis?
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What was the primary goal of the Turkish government's plan, according to Leslie Davis?
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What was the outcome of the Armenian population in the historic Armenian territories by 1923?
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What was the role of the New York Times during the Armenian Genocide?
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What was the reason behind the new Iranian government's treatment of the Kurds?
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What was the outcome of the Kurdish revolts in 1925 and 1928 in Turkey?
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How did the British army defeat the Kurdish revolts led by Mahmud Barzanji?
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What was the outcome of the Algiers Peace Treaty between Iran and Iraq in 1975?
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What was the reason behind the Iraqi regime's chemical gas attack in Halabja?
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What was the outcome of the US invasion of Iraq in 1990?
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What is the current status of the Kurds in Iraq?
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What is the Turkish government's concern regarding the Kurds in Iraq?
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What is the likelihood of the Kurds controlling Kirkuk and its oilfields if an independent Kurdish entity emerges?
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What was the purpose of the Amnesty International report published in 2008?
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