Refimprove date November 2010 The Kurdish population refers to the total number of Kurdishpeople in the world ... by the CIA in 2010 claims that Kurdishpeople make up 18 of Turkey s population about 14 million, out of 77.8 million people . ref name CIATurkey cite web author Central Intelligence Agency title The World ... in Iran Kurds of Khorasan About 4 million Citation needed date November 2010 Kurdishpeople live in Iran mainly in the north west region of the country which is a part of Kurdistan. A large Kurdish enclave outside Kurdistan is the Kurdish region in north north Khorasan Province Khorasan , in north ... population of Kurdishpeople, with an estimated 8,000 11,000. There are also Kurds in Southern ... Iranian Kurdistan Syrian Kurdistan List of Kurdishpeople Azarbaijani Kurds References reflist 2 ... people in Turkey there were 11.4 million Kurds living in Turkey close to 16 of the total population ... in 2008 that the Kurdish population in Turkey is 12.6 million although this also includes 3 million ..., Samsun, Adana, Ankara and Konya . According to R stem Erkan, Istanbul has the largest Kurdish population in Turkey. And the number of Kurds who are registered in the Kurdish dominated provinces but living ... of Kurdistan, there are significant Kurdish communities in metropolitan areas of these countries in Aleppo , Damascus , Baghdad etc. The Kurdish population in Iraq is thought to be in the region of 5 ... 1940 1944. Today, most of the Kurdish communities in Kazakhstan , Russia , and Kyrgyzstan are results ... make up a large part of the community. ref name KurdishInstituteofParis cite web author Kurdish Institute of Paris title The Kurdish Diaspora url http www.institutkurde.org en kurdorama accessdate 2010 .... The Iraqi government began to destroy Kurdish villages and forced many Kurds to move to barren ... Islamic law. There was widespread political oppression and persecution of the Kurdish community. Since the late 1970s the number of people from Iran seeking asylum in Britain has remained high ... more details
The Kurdish Globe , previously known as The Hewler Globe , is the first English language English language newspaper published in Arbil , Iraqi Kurdistan Region Kurdistan , northern Iraq . Published for the first time on March 31, 2005, its editing Editor in Chief and founder is Jawad Qadir. The name was changed from The Hewler Globe to The Kurdish Globe since the paper included issues of a pan Kurdish nature, including all parts of Kurdistan in Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Syria, and not just Hewl r Kurdish language Kurdish for Arbil . This weekly newspaper is published every Tuesday. It focuses primarily on Kurdish issues ranging from politics to culture, as well as Middle East related issues and politics. Its main rival is SOMA Digest , the second English language newspaper published in the Kurdistan region. Whereas The Kurdish Globe is edited from the point of view of the Kurdistan Regional Government , SOMA Digest is closely related to the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan PUK . External links http www.kurdishglobe.net Official website br DEFAULTSORT Kurdish Globe Category Newspapers published in Iraq Category English language newspapers published in Arab countries Category Arbil iraq stub Asia newspaper stub ... more details
File Kurdish states 1835.png thumb Kurdish Independent Kingdoms and Autonomous Principalities circa 1835 The Kurdish chiefdoms or principalities were several semi independent entities which existed during the 16th to 19 centuries in a state of Perpetual war continuous warfare against the Ottoman Empire and Safavid Iran, at times siding with either of them. ref name kurd globe http www.kurdishglobe.net display article.html?id 01049DD6BFAED3CC91CD1C6113D2014A KurdishGlobe Kurdish Nationalism in Mam u Zin of Ahmad Kh n Part XII ref The Kurdish principalities were almost always divided and entered into violent rivalries against each other. ref name kurd globe The demarcation of borders between the Safavid Shah Safiuddin and the Ottoman caliph Sultan Murad IV in 1639 effectively divided Kurdistan between the two empires. ref name kurd globe The eyalet of Diyarbakir ultimately covered all major and minor Kurdish chiefdoms except for Kelhor , Erdalan Ardalan , Baban , Sehrizor Shahrizor and Mukri Mokri . ref Google books CttLWEaTrJUC page 49 Kurdish notables and the Ottoman state evolving identities, competing ... By Hakan zo lu ref List Major emirates Ardalan Hakkari Imadiye Bitlis Hisnkeyfa Cezire Bohtan Gurkil Finiq Minor emirates div style moz column count 5 column count 5 Sohran emisgezek Mecengird Mazgird Pertek Sagman Mirdasi Egil , Palu , ermik Hazzo Sasun Erzen Zirqan G rd kan Ataq Tercil Mihrani Hizan Suveydi Han k , Gen , apaq ur S leymandi Qulp , Mifariqin Amid Mardin Arabkir Kigi Harput Ergani Siverek Ruha Urfa Bire Raqqa Suruc Cammasa Deyr Rahba Beni Rabia Mosul Eski Mosul Ana ve Hit Habur Sincar Aq aqale Nisibin Si ird Masyum u Tur H snru Ahakis Dasini Zaho div References reflist Google books fpk3AAAAIAAJ page 19 Evli ya elebi in Diyarbekir the relevant section of The seyahatname By Evli ya elebi , Martin van Bruinessen , Hendrik Boeschoten See also List of Kurdish dynasties and countries Category Kurdish dynasties Category Former Kurdish states ... more details
Unreferenced date August 2011 Kurdish dialects are dialects of the Kurdish language . They are linguistic varieties which differ in pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar from each other and from the various standardised forms of Kurdish. Classification The Kurdish language and its dialects are part of the Northwestern Iranian languages group. The following macrodialects are commonly described for Kurdish although the debate continues whether some or indeed all of these should be classified as languages Kurmanji Northern Kurdish The branch with the most speakers, spoken in Turkey , Syria , Iraq , Iran , Armenia and the Lebanon . It has an estimated 8 10 million speakers and has been written in the Latin script since the 1930s. Its main dialects are engal Mosul , Judikani Central Anatolia Qerejdax Urfa , Qamishlo etc Botan Boxt Cizre Botan , Serhedk Western Azerbaijan , Van , Erzurum , Kars , A r , Mu etc. , Hekkar Hakkari , Behd n Duhok, Iraq Dahuk and Western Azerbaijan Tor Mardin and Siirt Xerz Batman, Turkey Batman and Siirt Qochan Greater Khorasan Birjand Khorasan Elburz Dailam Western Kurmanji Reshvani Adiyaman Sems r Gaziantep Entab , Kahramanmara Mere , Sivas , Dersim , Melet etc Central Kurmanji around Diyarbakir Sorani Central Kurdish Spoken to the South of the Iraqi Kurdistan Iraqi Kurdish areas and in Western Iran by approx. 5 million speakers. It is written in a Kurdish variant of the Perso Arabic script but also in a Latin based system. Hewl r in Arbil , Pishdar south of Arbil Xaneq n in Khanaqin , Mukr in Mukriyan , Sil man Soran Baban ... in Kirkuk , Jaffi spoken in Jaff Stamm , Judeo Kurdisch in Kermanshah and Hamadan Southern Kurdish Southern Kurdish diverges considerably from the other branches. Its main dialects are Kelhur , Kolyai ... Ilam , Silax r and Xacevend in Mazandaran References reflist Kurdish language Iranian languages Iraq topics DEFAULTSORT Kurdish Dialects Category Kurdish language Category Languages of Armenia Category ... more details
This article deals with the grammar of the Kurdish language . Nouns A Kurdish noun in the absolute state, i.e. without any ending of any kind, gives a generic sense of the noun. It is also the lexical form of the noun, i.e. the form in which a noun is given in a vocabulary list or dictionary. Nouns are declined in four cases nominative case nominative , oblique case oblique , construct case construct or ezafe and vocative case vocative . class wikitable Sing. M. Sing. F Plur. Oblique an Construct a n t Vocative o no ine Indefinite ek ek anek Definite eke eke ekan Pronouns Kurmanji Kurdish uses two types of personal pronouns. class wikitable Number colspan 4 Singular colspan 4 Plural Case colspan 2 NOM. colspan 2 OBL colspan 2 NOM. colspan 2 OBL. normal suffix normal suffix normal suffix normal suffix 1st Ez i m Min i m Em i n Me man i n 2nd Tu Te i t u Hun i n We tan u 3rd Ew e W FEM. br W MASC. y Ew i n e Wan yan The ez forms NOM. are used as subjects in the present and future tenses. They are also used as subjects in past tenses when the verb is an intransitive verbs intransitive one. They are used as objects in past tenses when employed with a transitive verb. The min forms OBL. are used with any proposition or postposition. They are also employed as objects ... ... ane As demonstrative adjectives, Sorani Kurdish does not use OBL forms though for demonstrative ... in contrast to intransitive verbs which always accept NOM. personal suffixes . See also Kurdish language Notes references References W. M. Thackston 2006 Kurmanji Kurdish A Reference Grammar with Selected Readings Sorani Kurdish A Reference Grammar with Selected Readings W. M. Thackston External links http www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk siamakr Kurdish grammar.html Kurdish grammar http www.institutkurde.org en library online grammar of the kurmanji Kurmanji grammar http www.kurdishacademy.org Kurdish Academy of Language DEFAULTSORT Kurdish Grammar Category Kurdish language Category Grammars of specific ... more details
Orphan date February 2009 The Middle Kurdish variety Sorani is mainly written using an Arabic alphabet with 33 letters. Unlike the regular Arabic script , which is an abjad , Kurdish Arabic is an alphabet in which vowel s are mandatory, making the script easy to read. Table of Unicode Characters used in Kurdish Arabic script class wikitable Arabic Unicode Name Arabic Letters Hex. Yeh with Hamza above 0626 Alef 0627 Beh 0628 Peh 067E Teh 062A Jeem 062C Tcheh 0686 Hah 062D Khah 062E Dal 062F Reh 0631 Reh with small V below 0695 Zain 0632 Jeh 0698 Seen 0633 Sheen 0634 Ain 0639 Ghain 063A Feh 0641 Veh 06A4 Qaf 0642 Keheh 06A9 Gaf 06AF Lam 0644 Lam with small V 06B5 Meem 0645 Noon 0646 Waw 0648 Oe 06C6 U 06C7 Yu 06C8 Heh Doachashmee 06BE Ae 06D5 Farsi Yeh 06CC Yeh with small V 06CE Unicode fonts class wikitable Font pack Names of Fonts Link with Microsoft Windows Arabic Typesetting Arial Courier New Microsoft sans Serif Microsoft Uighur Tahoma Times New Roman X Series 2 fonts XB Zar XB Yagut XB Riyaz XB Roya XB Shafigh XB Shafigh Kurd XB Shafigh Uzbek XB Shiraz XB Sols XB Tabriz XB Titre XM Traffic XM Vahid XP Vosta XM Yermook XB Yas XP Ziba by http wiki.irmug.org Iranian Mac User Group http wiki.irmug.org index.php X Series 2 X Series 2 Download Page , built on freely available fonts and extended to support Persian, Arabic, Urdu, Pashto, Dari, Uzbek, Kurdish, Uighur, old Turkish Ottoman and modern Turkish Roman and equipped with two font technologies, Apple Advanced Typography AAT and OpenType and can be used ... 98 with the Arabic or Farsi Keyboard layouts. Typing Kurdish with Alifonts is slow and boring but it s very popular even these days because it s not needed to install Kurdish keyboard layout ... Online programs for converting non Unicode fonts to Unicode http www.rukar.net key Kurdish Key & Font ... See also Kurdish alphabet Category Arabic alphabets writingsystem stub fa ku Font n ... more details
Infobox writing system name Kurdish alphabet type Alphabet languages Kurdish language Kurdish File Kurdish alphabet.jpg right 200px File Kurdish Food Alder Street geograph.org.uk 1717250.jpg thumb 200px Kurdish restaurant sign written in Arabic script The Kurdish language is written either using a variant ... to be non Kurdish see http www.nefel.com epirtuk pdf celadet ali bedir xan elfabeugramer 02.pdf?NR ... have applied to the courts seeking to change their names to Kurdish ones written with the letters ... allowed since September 2003 to take Kurdish names, but cannot use the letters x, w, or q, which are common in Kurdish but do not exist in Turkey s version of the Latin alphabet. ... Those letters ... Kurdish dialect is mainly written using a modified Perso Arabic script Persian alphabet with 33 letters ... are mandatory, making the script easy to read. Yet it is not a complete representation of Kurdish ... used in Kurdish. &lrm , &lrm , &lrm , &lrm , &lrm , &lrm , &lrm , &lrm , &lrm , &lrm , &lrm ... in Iraq and Iran mainly use this alphabet, though the Kurdish Latin alphabet is also in use. Cyrillic ... Cyrillic Armenian alphabet From 1921 to 1929 the Armenian alphabet was used for Kurdish languages ... Kurdish language , Krugosvet ref Then it was replaced with a Janalif like Latin alphabet during Latinisation USSR Latinisation campaign . Uniform Turkic Alphabet adaptation for Kurdish In 1928 Kurdish language in all USSR , including Armenian SSR , was switched to a Latin alphabet containing ... The Yekgirt Yekgirt , yekgirig alphabet is a recent devised writing system by Kurdish Academy of Language ... Kurdish dialects and not exclusive to just one, and is therefore called Yekgirt , which means unified. It is also better adapted to the vowel rich Kurdish language than is the Arabic script. The Kurdish Academy of Language KAL realises that there are too many shortcomings with current Kurdish writing ... Standards and representation for Kurdish. To avoid the communication obstacles presented by the existence ... more details
Party PKK People s Congress of Kurdistan National Liberation Front of Kurdistan Kurdish National Liberation Movements Islamic Party of Kurdistan Kurdish Hezbollah Democratic People s Movement Demokratik ...Kurdish Organisations Europe UK http www.kurdishartistrights.com Kurdish Artist Rights http www.kcclondon.org.uk Kurdish Cultural Centre KCC http www.westernkurdistan.org.uk Western Kurdistan Association WKA http www.kurdishcentre.org Kurdish Community Centre KCC http www.kurdishhousing.org Kurdish Housing Association KHA http www.gulan.org.uk Gulan http www.kurdishadvicecentre.org.uk Kurdish Advice Centre KAC http www.kea96.org Kurdish Exile Association KEA http www.rwca.org.uk Kurdish and Turkish Refugee Workers Cultural Association GIK DER http www.khrp.org Kurdish Human Rights Project KHRP http www.web.onetel.com gkca Contacs.htm Greenwich Kurdish Community Centre GKCC http www.kurdishassociation.org.uk Kurdish Association http www.daymer.org Turkish and Kurdish Community Centre DAY MER http www.kuma.org.uk Kurdish Medical Association KUMA http www.ksso.org.uk Kurdish Studies and Student ... SCHEIK http www.kmsf.org.uk Kurdish Medical and Scientific Federation KMSF http www.kwrw.org Kurdish Women s Rights Watch KWRW http www.ikwro.org.uk Iranian and Kurdish Women s Rights Organisation IKWRO http www.kmewo.org Kurdish & Middle East Women s Organisation KMEWO http www.rojwomen.com ROJ Women s Association http www.imece.org.uk Kurdish & Turkish Womens Group IMECE http wwwkpn.org.uk Kurdish Professional Network KPN http www.lkff.co.uk London Kurdish Film Festival LKFF http www.kurdishcreativefilm.com Manchester Kurdish Film Festival MKFF Croydon Kurdish Association The Kurdish Centre, Croydon The Kurdish Art Centre Kurdish PEN Derby Kurdish Community Association Glasgow Kurdish Community LeedsKurdish Community Kurdish Disability Organisation KDO Kurdish Forum, Huddersfield Kurdish Association Centre in Greater Manchester Peace Mothers Sweden KSAF association Kurdish Student ... more details
The following is a list of people who have contributed to the Kurdish literature. This list is not comprehensive, but is continuously being expanded and includes KurdishpeopleKurdish writers and poets ... Kurdishpeople List of Kurdishpeople Kurdistan Sharafnama Mem and Zin Kurdish Literature Kurdish culture DEFAULTSORT KurdishPeople Category Lists of people by ethnicity Category Kurdish language ... countries . 11th century 14th century Baba Tahir Baba Tahir Hemedan 11th century , Kurdish poet. Ali Hariri El Her r 1009 1079 , Kurdish poet. Ali ibn al Athir 1160 1233 , Kurdish Islamic historian, born in Jazira Ciz re region. 15th century Ahmade Bate Ehmed Bat , 1417 1491 , Kurdish poet and Muslim cleric, Hakkari region. 16th century Malaye Jaziri Melay Ciz r , 1570 1640 , Kurdish ... Taramakhi El Teremax , 16th century , linguist and writer. Mustafa Besarani , 1642 1701 ,Kurdish poet Author of the first Arabic grammar book in the Kurdish language in 1591. Ahmad Khani Ehmed Xan , 1651 1707 , Kurdish poet and a Muslim scholar, author of Mem Z n . 18th century Khana Qubadi Xana Qubad , 1700 1759 , Kurdish poet, author of r n Xesrew. Mahmud Bayazidi 1797 1859 , Kurdish writer, translator and historian. Nali 1797 1869 , Kurdish poet. 19th century Mastoura Ardalan 1805 1848 , Kurdish poet and historiographer. Mawlawi Tawagozi 1806 1882 , Kurdish poet and sufi. Haji Qadir Koyi 1817 1897 , Kurdish poet. Mahwi 1830 1906 , Kurdish poet and sufi. Sheikh Rezza Talabani 1835 1910 , Kurdish, Iraq. Wafaei 1844 1902 , Kurdish poet, Iran. Jeferqoli Zingili , born 1855 AD , Kurdish poet, Khorasan No references Edeb 1860 1918 , Kurdish poet, Iran Piramerd 1867 1950 , Kurdish poet, writer, novelist and journalist, Iraqi Kurdistan . Hamdi Saheb Qran 1878 1936 , Kurdish poet ... Kurdi 1876 1960 , Kurdish Islamic philosopher, Turkey. Hajj Nematollah 1871 1919 , mystic and poet ... 1951 , linguist, journalist and politician, founder of the Latin based Kurdish alphabet . Sheikh ... more details
Infobox given name name Goran image imagesize caption pronunciation G r n gender Male meaning Gorani language Goran Region , music, mountains region Kurdistan origin Kurdish related names Guran, G ran footnotes Goran also Guran is a Kurdish people Kurdish name commonly used for males in the geographical region of Kurdistan and by Kurdish people worldwide. The name is also sometimes a surname. Goran is not to be confused with the Kurdish people Kurdish word, Gorran , which means Change and is also the name of a Kurdish people Kurdish political faction in Iraq . Origin and Meaning In Kurdish, Gorani may refer to the Gorani language spoken by several millions of ethnic Kurds , or the geographical subregions of Hewraman and Garmian situated in the southeastern part of Kurdistan . In this context, the name Goran means someone who is of the Gorani speakers or Gorani regions . The origins of the name are unclear but some scholars believe the name originates from the Avestan word gairi meaning mountain. ref http www.avesta.org avdict avdict.htm dctg ref In Kurdish, gorani also means music. ref Karadaghi, Rashid. The Azadi English Kurdish Dictionary. ISBN 9643564576. ref First name Goran Kamil, a well known Kurdish people Kurdish musician from Iraqi Kurdistan who is highly skilled in adapting the oud instrument to modern and traditional Kurdish music. ref http www.facebook.com group.php?gid 53435626903 ref Family name Abdulla Goran , a 20th century late Kurdish people Kurdish writer and poet from Iraqi Kurdistan who is regarded by Kurds as the father of modern Kurdish language Kurdish literature. ref http www.kurdishacademy.org ?q node 723 ref References reflist Category Kurdish culture Category Kurdish language ku Goran ... more details
italictitle Not to the confused with Peeter s http poj.peeters leuven.be content.php?url journal.php&code JKS Journal of Kurdish Studies print ISSN 1370 7205 , electronic ISSN 1783 1539 The International Journal of Kurdish Studies ISSN 1073 6697 is an academic journal published by the Kurdish Heritage Foundation of America Kurdish Library , and was edited by Vera Beaudin Saeedpour . It publishes scholarly articles about Kurdish culture , Kurdish literature literature , and History of the Kurdish people history . It was founded in 1986 as Kurdish Times before getting its current title after volume 4. ref cite journal url http www.kurdishlibrarymuseum.com journal.html title The International Journal of Kurdish Studies a cumulative index, 1986 2002 author Meho, Lokman I. journal International Journal of Kurdish Studies date 2003 01 01 ref The journal is indexed by the Index Islamicus . Fact date August 2008 References references External links http www.kurdishlibrarymuseum.com journal.html Journal homepage academic journal stub Category Kurdistan Category Area studies journals Category Publications established in 1986 ... more details
Kurdish Tribal Association is a KurdishpeopleKurdish tribal grouping of about 20 to 30 tribes , established 1991 in Iraqi Kurdistan . References http www.globalsecurity.org military world iraq opposition.htm Iraqi Opposition Category Political parties in Iraqi Kurdistan Iraq party stub de Kurdischer Stammes Verein ... more details
Unreferenced date September 2011 Jalali lang ku Celal are KurdishpeopleKurdish tribe of eastern Turkey and northwestern Iran . They predominantly inhabit in Diyadin district in A r Province as well as in Maku County Maku district in West Azerbaijan Province . Category Kurdish tribes Category Diyadin Category Maku County ku Celaliyan ckb sv Celali ... more details
Washington Kurdish Institute is an educational and research organization focused on Kurdishpeople Kurds . It was established in September 1996 and is based in Washington DC . Its objectives are raising awareness of Kurdish issues, promoting human rights in Kurdish areas and supporting development of civil society among Kurds. The institute has a Board of Directors headed by Dr. Najmaldin Karim . It also has an advisory committee composed of renowned Kurdologists such as Martin van Bruinessen , Abbas Vali , Amir Hassanpour and Michael Chyet . The institute offers Kurdish language courses at beginner and advanced levels for both dialects of Sorani and Kurmanji . External links http www.kurd.org Washington Kurdish Institute Category Kurdish organisations ... more details
2011 Kurdish protests may refer to demonstrations by the KurdishpeopleKurdish minority in a number of countries, concurrent with and impact of the Arab Spring inspired by the Arab Spring in early 2011 2011 Kurdish protests in Iraq , which took place in northern Iraq against the Kurdish Regional Government. 2011 Kurdish protests in Turkey , which have seen Kurds in Turkey clash with the government over perceived discrimination and demands for regional autonomy. 2011 Syrian uprising , which has involved Kurds in Syria demonstrating for greater cultural rights and civil liberties. 2011 Iranian protests , which witnessed demonstrations against the government by Kurds in Iran, especially in traditionally Kurdish regions. disambig ... more details
Jamil Mihhu established the Kurdish Democratic Party in 1960, but it was not licensed until 1970. Mihhu, however, supported the Iraqi government against KurdishpeopleKurdish rebels fighting in that country, and he was captured and imprisoned by the Kurdish resistance in Iraq. Consequently, the leadership of the party passed to Jamil s son, Riyad. Another son, Muhammad, disagreed with his family s position on several issues and therefore in 1977 started his own movement, the Kurdish Democratic Party Temporary Leadership. Category Kurdish organisations Category Political parties established in 1960 Category Political parties in Lebanon Lebanon party stub ... more details
primarysources date January 2011 The Kurdish Human Rights Project is the only non partisan human rights organisation consistently working in the Kurdistan Kurdish regions of Turkey , Iraq , Iran , Syria and elsewhere. It is a registered charity, founded and based in London in 1992, and its supporters include Kurdishpeople Kurds and non Kurds. Its activities include litigation and advocacy, trial observation and fact finding missions, research and publications and public awareness, education and communication initiatives. ref cite web last Alliance for Kurdish Rights title KHRP Kurdish civilians impacted by Turkish and Iranian military operations url http kurdishrights.org 2009 07 04 khrp kurdish civilians impacted by turkish and iranian military operations work article publisher Alliance for Kurdish rights accessdate 4 17 2012 ref In 2005 it was awarded the Sigrid Rausing Trust Award for Outstanding Leadership in International Human Rights . It was also short listed for the 2004 Human Rights Award by the Law Society of England and Wales , Liberty and Justice. Its cases have established precedents at the European Court of Human Rights on issues including the death penalty, detentions without trial, rape by or with the acquiescence of state actors and the use of blindfolds in detention. It has also played a highly visible role in raising awareness of social and environmental concerns surrounding dam projects including the Il su Dam Ilisu and Yusufeli dams in south east Turkey and the Baku Tbilisi Ceyhan pipeline Baku Tbilisi Ceyhan oil pipeline . External links http www.khrp.org Official KHRP website English language English http www.khrp.org Turkish hometurkish.htm Official KHRP website Turkish language Turkish http www.baku.org.uk Baku Ceyhan Campaign http www.ilisu.org.uk Ilisu Dam Campaign References Ref list Category Human rights in Iraq Category Human rights in Syria ... Category Kurdish organisations ku Kurdish Human Rights Project ... more details
Israeli conflict Kurdish villages destroyed during the Iraqi Arabization campaign References Reflist DEFAULTSORT Kurdish Villages Depopulated By Turkey Category History of the Kurdishpeople Category ...The number of Kurdish villages depopulated by Turkey is estimated at around 3,000. Since 1984, the Turkish military has embarked on a campaign to eradicate the Kurdistan Workers Party, a militant Kurdish opposition group. As a result, 30,000 people have died, and two million Kurdish refugees have been driven out of their homes into overcrowded urban shantytowns. ref Jennifer Washburn. http www.thirdworldtraveler.com New World Order PowerBloc TurkeyIsrael.html Power Bloc Turkey and Israel Lock Arms , The Progressive magazine, December 1998. ref ref Ferhad Ibrahim, G listan G rbey. http books.google.co.uk books?id qwBdLcnlu oC&pg PA167&dq kurdish villages depopulated by turkey&hl en&ei uMPaS f9EIjD QbmmrHhDg&sa X&oi book result&ct result&resnum 1&ved 0CAkQ6AEwAA v onepage&q kurdish 20villages 20depopulated 20by 20turkey&f false The Kurdish conflict in Turkey obstacles and chances for peace and democracy , Palgrave Macmillan, 2000. pg. 167. ISBN 0312236298 ref ref Dahlman, Carl. http people.cas.sc.edu dahlmanc dahlman 202002 20political 20geography 20of 20kurdistan.pdf The Political Geography of Kurdistan pg. 11 ref Background Much of the countryside in southeast Turkey has been depopulated by the Turkish government, with Kurdish civilians moving to local defensible centers such as Diyarbak r , Van, Turkey Van , and rnak , as well as to the cities of western Turkey and even to western Europe. The causes of the depopulation included PKK atrocities against Kurdish clans they could not control, the poverty of the southeast, and the Turkish state s military operations. ref name Radu2001 ... to prevent the return of the inhabitants. An estimated 3,000 Kurdish villages in Turkey were virtually wiped from the map, representing the displacement of more than 378,000 people. ref cite web ... more details
took place in 1931, after Barzani, one of the most prominent KurdishPeopleKurdish leaders in Iraqi Kurdistan Northern Iraq , succeeded in defeating a number of other KurdishPeopleKurdish tribes. ref name Barzani The Kurdish Minority Problem , p.11, Dec. 1948, ORE 71 48, CIA http www.foia.cia.gov ...POV date December 2011 Infobox military conflict conflict Kurdish Iraqi conflict date 1919 November 2003 partof image caption place Iraqi Kurdistan result Kurdish victory Kurdish autonomy established in northern no fly zone in October 1991 Peshmerga Kurdish militants assist 2003 invasion into Iraq and toppling ... casualties1 casualties2 casualties3 Campaignbox Iraqi Kurdish Wars The Iraqi Kurdish conflict consists ... invasion to Iraq in 2003, though tensions between the Kurdish autonomy and the central Iraqi government have continued. The first chapter of the Kurdish Iraqi dispute followed the end of the First World ... were defeated, another Kurdish sheikh Ahmed Barzani began to actively oppose the central ... serious Kurdish seccession attempt was made by Ahmed Barzani s younger brother Mustafa Barzani ... in the attempt to form the Kurdish Republic of Mahabad . In 1958, Mustafa Barzani and his fighters returned to Iraq from exile, and an attempt was made to negotiate a Kurdish autonomy in the north with the new Iraqi regime of Qasim. The negotiations ultimately failed and the First Kurdish Iraqi War ... to Kurdish Iraqi peace talks resolve the conflict by providing Kurds with a recognized autonomy in North Iraq Iraqi Kurdistan , the Kurdish Iraqi peace talks negotiations failed in 1974, resulting in resumed hostilities, known as the Second Kurdish Iraqi War , which resulted in collapse of the Kurdish ..., which had the support of Iranian and Iraqi air forces. The Kurdish rebellion of 1983 conflict re emerged as part of the 1980 1988 Iran Iraq war , with the Kurdish parties collaborating against Saddam ... grew tired of the strengthening and non loyal Kurdish entity in North Iraq and began a genocidal ... more details
Refimprove date December 2009 Kermashani Kerm n hi is a subdialect of Kurdish language Kurdish , which is part of the southern branch of Kurdish Language, mostly spoken in western Iran in and around city of Kermanshah Kirma an . ref Ranjbar, Vahid. Dastur e Zaban e Kurdi ye Kermanshahi. Kermanshah Taq Bostan. 1388 ref It shares many similarities with the Sorani dialect of Kurdish. References Reflist Category Kurdish language Category Southern Kurdish Category Kurdish dialects Ie lang stub fa ... more details
linkrot date January 2012 Infobox militant organization name al Qaeda Kurdish Battalions logo caption dates 2007 present leader motives area Iran , Iraqi Kurdistan ideology Islamism , strict Sharia Law crimes attacks status flagicon USA Designated as U.S. State Department list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations Foreign Terrorist Organization by the United States Department of State U.S. State Department Al Qaeda Kurdish Battalions AQKB is a militant Islamist organization, primarily active in the northern Iran Iraq boarder. It is a KurdishpeopleKurdish affiliated branch of Al Qaeda that has lunched several attacks the Kurdistan Regional Government in northern Iraq. The group is was classified as a terrorist organization by the US State Department on January 1, 2012. ref cite web url http www.chicagotribune.com sns rt iraq usagroup update 1l1e8c52to 20120105,0,4888655.story title Topic Galleries publisher chicagotribune.com date accessdate 2012 01 29 ref Formation AQKB was founded in 2007 after the disbandment of Ansar al Islam , another Al Qaeda affiliated group. The group is considered to be relatively small but has camps in the Iranian towns of Mariwan and Sanandej . ref name rudaw cite web url http www.rudaw.net english world 4306.html title Rudaw in English The Happening Latest News and Multimedia about Kurdistan, Iraq and the World US Designates Kurdish Group Terrorists publisher Rudaw.net date 2012 01 15 accessdate 2012 01 29 ref Attacks The group has lunched several attacks including its largest one being against Kurdistan Regional Government KRG s Ministry of Interior in Erbil that killed 19 people in May 2007. ref name rudaw AQKB killed 7 border guards and one Patriotic Union of Kurdistan PUK security officer in Penjwan in July 2007. ref name aina cite web url http www.aina.org news 20120105102642.htm title Terrorist Designation of the Al Qaida Kurdish Battalions publisher Aina.org date 2012 01 05 accessdate 2012 01 29 ref In September 2010, two police officers ... more details
and genocide recognitions.html Recognition by the People s Congress of Kurdistan ref Kurdish Parliament ... Ozgur Gundem Kurdish apologized to the Armenian people for silence and complicity in the Armenian ... Kurdish Cavalry in World War One. Kurdish recognition of the Armenian Genocide is the recognition of the Kurdish participation in the ethnic cleansing of Armenians during World War I , when Kurdish ... civilians and refugees. In several of the Kurdish regions, the Kurds participated in the genocide ..., 1986, p.333 ref Armenian Genocide See also Kurdish Armenian relations Armenian Genocide The genocide ... forces were intercepted by Kurdish forces when they crossed the mountain passes near ald ran District ... groups of refugees were attacked by local tribes, both Kurdish and Arab, before they reached ..., most of them were untouched. These people, whom we might call outlaws, because of their unlawful ... 1915 Armenians and Cossack Russian soldiers waiting for Kurdish Cavalry see image Christian Armenian ... of recognizance class wikitable Type Recognize Date Declaration NGO Kurdish Institute of Paris The Kurdish ... mentioned in monthly magazine published by the Kurdish Institute. ref http kurdisharmenian.blogspot.com ... 2006 by the Kurdish Institute of Paris ref NGO Center of Halabja against Anfalization and Genocide of the Kurds CHAK Welcomed the recognition of genocide against the Armenian people. The motivation ... soc.culture.assyrian browse thread thread 092e843d1105fcaa b018bb17b24bfd40 Kurdish CHAK welcomes the recognition of genocide against the Armenian people ref In 2006, CHAK published an article about the Armenian ... genocide. ref http www.hurriyet.com.tr english domestic 10672641.asp?scr 1 Turkey s pro Kurdish ... genocide where he describes the genocide as a crime against the Christian people ref http www.xoybun.com ... for an even more appalling and destructive demonstration of genocide of the Jewish people by the German ... Kurdish Council of Armenia March 2009 The president of the Kurdish Council Armenia, Knyaz ... more details
References reflist Category Kurdish diaspora Category History of the Kurdishpeople Category Ethnic groups in Azerbaijan Category Nagorno Karabakh Category Kurdish tribes az eylanl tayfas ku eylanl ...Sheylanli tribe lang az eylanl q bil si lang ru , , or is a Kurdish tribes Kurdish ... and Ethnography of Azerbaijan p. 143, Sheylanli is listed among other Kurdish clans such as Babaly ... authorlink title Esseys on the study of Kurdish culture publisher pp. 40 42 year 1936 location Baku ... of the Kurdish Language . ref cite web url http www.britannica.com EBchecked topic 325225 Kurdish language publisher Encyclop dia Britannica title Kurdish language quote The Kurds in the Caucasus speak Kurmanji dialect of Kurdish language accessdate 2008 07 08 ref This tribe is considered to be one of the 24 Kurdish tribes ref name icare ru icon cite web url http www.kurdist.ru index.php?option com content&task view&id 72 title On Kurdish tribes in Caucasus accessdate 2008 07 05 ref those were ... Bidlisi authorlink Sherefxan Bidlisi title On Kurdish tribes in Caucasus, p. 370 publisher year 1967 location Moscow isbn ref Tatiana F. Aristova gives some Sheylanli Kurdish family names such as Asadlar ... Sheylanli, Zerty, and Minkend among the poorest Kurdish communities of Azerbaijan in Lachin rayon Lachin . Tribal Kurdish population in Lachin region In the 1920s, the Kurdish community in Azerbaijan was considerably diminished, when many of them moved to Armenia where Kurdish villages were created ... 12,000 Kurds, while Kurdish leaders estimate as much as 200,000. The problem is that the historical ..., manipulation of population figures, settlement of non Kurds in areas predominantly Kurdish, suppression of publications and abolition of Kurdish as a medium of instruction in schools. ref name th Kurdish historical figures such as Sharaf Khan of Bitlis and Ahmad Khani and the Shaddadid dynasty as a whole were described as Azeris. ref name th Kurds who retained Kurdish as their nationality ... more details
the results of the 1923 population transfer between Greece and Turkey Kurdish Armenian relations covers the historical relations between the Kurdishpeople Kurds and the Armenians . Ancient Armenia ... . The Lausanne treaty not only dashed any hope of an independent Kurdish state but also did not confer upon the Kurdishpeople the minority status and its entailed rights given to Greeks in Turkey ...File .jpg thumb upright 1.0 Kurdish and Armenian traditional clothes, 1862 File Distribution ... of Caucasus depicts Kurdish and Armenian horsemen in the mountains of Caucasus in 1894. Kurds and Armenians ... Turkish rule. The Armenians of Vaspurakan who converted to Islam, gradually assimilated into Kurdish ... File Kurdish Hamidiye officer.png thumb upright Hamidiye cavalry Hamidieh soldier , major . In 1891 ... of the Kurds by raising a body of Kurdish irregular cavalry, which was well armed and called Hamidieh ... Turkish chieftains aga and the Armenians and Kurds agrarian community who perceived Kurdish taxation ... participated in the First Sasun Resistance , supplying arms to the local population to help the people ... killed by Ottoman troops and Kurdish tribesmen, when the Armenians began their struggle for autonomy ..., Ministre des affaires trang res, p. 239 et no. 215 p. 240. ref Chieftain of Zelian, 1896 The Kurdish ... name encislam Khanasor Expedition, 1897 The Khanasor Expedition was undertaken against the Kurdish ... File World War I Caucasus Campaign memory.loc.gov.png thumb right Kurdish Cavalry on January ... , who happened to be mostly Kurdish, were the main enemies of the Armenian patriots. The formation ... by restricting their possession of arms. Local Kurdish tribes were armed to attack the Armenian population ... to the Kurdish inhabited areas east of the Euphrates river and to the south of Armenia. Sharif Pasha , the Kurdish representative in the Paris Peace Conference, 1919 Paris Peace Conference , reached ... of Ararat main Republic of Ararat A r rebellion A series of Kurdish rebellions against Turkey ... more details
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