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Tenness : For the first time in its 17-year
history, the Kurdish National Congress of North
America will hold its annual conference Friday and
Saturday in Nashville. The meeting will be held at
the Millennium Maxwell House Hotel on MetroCenter
Boulevard.
Nashville is home to the largest concentration of
Kurds in the country, about 8,000. Local Kurdish
leaders are excited the conference is coming to
Music City.
''We will have several hundred people coming here,
from the United States, Canada and Kurdistan,'' said
Saeed Chalky, one of the local organizers.
The theme of the meeting, which comes about two
months after several thousand Iraqi Kurds came to
Nashville to vote in Iraqi's election, will be
Kurdish Independence, Democracy and Regional
Stability.
Kurds seek a unified Kurdistan. Their homeland now
is part of four countries: Iran, Iraq, Syria and
Turkey.
The conference begins at noon Friday and continues
through Saturday evening. Additional information can
be found at www.kncna.org.
www.tennessean.com
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