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South Kurdistan Peshmerga; Southern Kurdistan Army
Topic Started: Dec 6 2013, 10:52 PM (91 Views)
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SK Peshmerga - Wikipedia

Peshmerga or Peshmerge (Kurdish: Pêşmerge) is the term used by Kurds to refer to armed Kurdish fighters. Literally meaning "those who confront death" (Pesh front + marg death) the Peshmerga forces of Kurdistan have been in existence since the advent of the Kurdish independence movement in the early 1920s, following the collapse of the Ottoman and Qajar empires which had jointly ruled over the area. Peshmerga forces include women in their ranks.[1] Many Kurds will say that all Kurds willing to fight for their rights are Peshmerga. The term remains in contemporary usage, sometimes written as pesh merga in Anglophone media.[2]
The term Peshmerga is also the official name of the armed forces of the Kurdistan Regional Government in the autonomous Kurdistan Region in Iraq.[3]
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