Living mainly in the South East of Turkey and North of Iraq, Kurds became the first targets of their residence countries. With a population of 4 million in North Iraq, Kurds have always claimed their wish for an autonomous country. In order to restrain separatist assumptions, Saddam Hussein led a campaign to remove Kurdish populations at any costs which resulted in more than 70 bombed villages and thousands of people dead. The silence and the non-intervention of the international community drove survivors to flee to Turkey where the same sort of atrocities were directed against them. This oppression took them to create an independent army force called the PKK, defending their claimed lands spread over Turkey, Iraq, Iran and Syria: Kurdistan.