Temperate grassland. Temperate grasslands are characterized as having grasses as the dominant vegetation. Trees and large shrubs are absent. Temperatures vary more from summer to winter, and the amount of rainfall is less in temperate grasslands than in savannas.rasslands are characterized as lands dominated by grasses rather than large shrubs or trees. In the Miocene and Pliocene Epochs, which spanned a period of about 25 million years, mountains rose in western North America and created a continental climate favorable to grasslands.
Al-Anfal and the Genocide of Iraqi Kurds, 1988. The al-Anfal campaign in 1988 was a genocidal military operation led by Saddam Hussein's Baâathist regime against the ethnic Kurds of northern Iraq.A Critical Guide to the Iraqi High Tribunalâs Anfal Judgement: A Genocide Against the Kurds.â Michigan Journal of International Law 30, no. 2 (2009): 305-412. Travis, Hannibal. Genocide in the Middle East: The Ottoman Empire, Iraq, and Sudan. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2010.
Ataturk, Mustafa Kemal. Home Educational Resources Encyclopedia Entries on the Armenian Genocide. Mustafa Kemal Ataturk (1881-1938) was the founder of the Republic of Turkey and the consummator of the Armenian Genocide.ith the restoration of Turkish sovereignty over Anatolia, Kemal turned his attention to the modernization of the country. Designated President of the newly proclaimed Republic of Turkey in 1923, he embarked upon a thorough-going process of Westernization while promoting a secular Turkish national identity.