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Kurds in Pakistan (Kurdish: Kurdên li Pakistanê, کوردان له پاکستان, Urdu: پاکستان میں کُرد) comprise people residing in Pakistan who are of Kurdish origin. They are a small population consisting mainly of expatriates and transient migrants, most of whom arrived following the start of the Gulf War in Iraq in 1990.
KurdsinPakistan (Kurdish: Kurdên li Pakistanê, کوردان له پاکستان, Urdu: پاکستان میں کُرد) comprise people residing inPakistan who are of Kurdish origin...
with the largest Kurdish population in Turkey. From the 7 million Iranian Kurds, majority who are Sunni. Shia Kurds inhabit Kermanshah Province, except...
existence of Kurds. The words "Kurds" or "Kurdistan" were banned in any language by the Turkish government, though "Kurdish" was allowed in census reports...
Kurdish people or Kurds (Kurdish: کورد, Kurd) are an Iranic ethnic group native to the mountainous region of Kurdistan in Western Asia, which spans southeastern...
Kurdsin Japan (Japanese: 在日クルド人, Zainichi Kurudo-jin, Kurdish: Kurdên Japonyayê) refers to Kurds residing in Japan. Most Kurdsin Japan are from shepherding...
Kurdish origin and also ruled northern Iraq. In the 1500s most Kurds fell under Ottoman Rule. Iraqi Kurds developed as a subgroup of the Kurdish peoples...
of Turkey has an official policy in place that denies the existence of the Kurds as a distinct ethnicity. The Kurds, who are an Iranic people, have historically...
because many Kurds list themselves as Turks and Azeris. Other sources predict this number to be higher, counting up to 60,000 Kurdsin Kazakhstan. During...
Kurdsin Sweden may refer to people born in or residing in the Sweden of Kurdish origin. Most Kurdish people in Sweden live in the capital Stockholm or...
Kurdsin Denmark are Kurds living in Denmark. The number of Kurds is estimated between 25,000 and 30,000 and they come mainly from countries in the Middle...
Kurdsin Germany are residents or citizens of Germany of full or partial Kurdish origin. There is a large Kurdish community in Germany. The number of Kurds...
and the Kurds (Proto-Kurds), in the wording of G. Windfuhr (1975: 459), lived either in northwestern Luristan or in the province of Isfahan. In the second...
referred to as Kurds as offensive. However, some Yazidis in Armenia acknowledge their ties with Kurds and a minority identify themselves as Kurds (particularly...
Bengalis inPakistan are ethnic Bengali people who had lived in either West Pakistan or East Pakistan prior to 1971 or live in present-day Pakistan. Most...
Turkey where Kurds form the predominant ethnic group. The Kurdish Institute of Paris estimates that there are 20 million Kurds living in Turkey, the majority...
emigration of Kurds to the United States. After the war, the Kurds had been promised an autonomous region, Kurdistan in the Treaty of Sèvres in 1920. The...
Rohingya people inPakistan (Urdu: پاکستانی برمی) are a community based in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan. They are Rohingya Muslims (Urdu: روہنگیا مسلمان)...
Kurds moved to Russia and Armenia. According to the Russian Census of 1897, 99,900 Kurds lived in the Russian Empire. In 1937 and 1944 Soviet Kurds experienced...
instead of Urdu script. British Pakistanis (Urdu: برطانیہ میں مقیم پاکستانی; also known as Pakistani British people or Pakistani Britons) are Britons or residents...
inPakistan (Urdu: افغان مهاجرين, Afghān muhājirīn, lit. 'Afghan migrants') are temporary residents from Afghanistan who are registered inPakistan as...
Christians are Kurds who follow Christianity. Though the majority of Kurds were converted to Islam during the expansion of the Islamic caliphates in the 7th...
federal level given to provinces. Ahmed Kurd, former president of the Supreme Court Bar Association of Pakistan, said "We fully support the 18th Amendment...
romanized: Kurdayetî, lit. 'Kurdishness or Kurdism') is a nationalist political movement which asserts that Kurds are a nation and espouses the creation of...
of the Kurds, in particular of Yezidi Kurds". United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (1 August 1998). "Georgia: Treatment of the Kurds, in particular...