-
Kurds (Kurdish: کورد, romanized:
Kurd) or
Kurdish people are an
Iranic ethnic group native to the
mountainous region of
Kurdistan in West Asia, which...
- 'land of the
Kurds'; [ˌkʊɾdɪˈstɑːn] ), or
Greater Kurdistan, is a
roughly defined geo-cultural
region in West Asia
wherein the
Kurds form a prominent...
- been
committed against the
Kurds, with one
prominent incident being the
Zilan M****acre. The
Turkish government categorized Kurds as "Mountain Turks" until...
-
million people).
Kurdish sources put the
figure at 10 to 15
million Kurds in Turkey.
Kurds mostly live in
Northern Kurdistan, in
Southeastern and
Eastern Anatolia...
- 20
million Kurds in Turkey, Syria,
northern Iraq, and
northwest and
northeast Iran.
Sorani is
spoken by an
estimated 6 to 7
million Kurds in much of Iraqi...
- whom it has been
reinterpreted as
meaning "speaker of
Kūrd. A
proposed connection with the
Kurds of
Western Asia has been
dismissed by
Elfenbein as folk...
- namely: Saçlı Kürdü (long-haired
Kurds),
Yezidi Ekrad (Yezidi
Kurds), Saçlı
Yezidi Kürdleri (long-haired
Yezidi Kurds), kavm-i na-pak (impure group), bed-mezheb...
-
Kurdish po****tion.[citation needed] The
majority of
Syrian Kurds are
originally Turkish Kurds who have
crossed the
border during different events in the...
- most
Kurds came
under the rule of the
Ottoman Empire,
where they were
governed as part of the empire's
administrative structure.
Iraqi Kurds began to...
- (Proto-Balochs)
inhabited the
central areas of
Western Iran, and the
Kurds (Proto-
Kurds), in the
wording of G.
Windfuhr (1975: 459),
lived either in northwestern...
