Predominantly: Shafi'i school of Sunni Islam Minority: Twelver Shia, Alevism, Hanafism
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Modern Kurds and other Iranian peoples
Ottoman Kurds were ethnic Kurds who lived in the Ottoman Empire. At its peak, the Ottoman Empire ruled Turkish Kurdistan, Iraqi Kurdistan, Syrian Kurdistan, and a small part of Iranian Kurdistan.
OttomanKurds were ethnic Kurds who lived in the Ottoman Empire. At its peak, the Ottoman Empire ruled Turkish Kurdistan, Iraqi Kurdistan, Syrian Kurdistan...
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...
or so persons who identify themselves as ethnic Kurds. From 1915 to 1918, Kurds struggled to end Ottoman rule over their region. They were encouraged by...
nationalism had its roots in the Ottoman Empire, within which Kurds were a significant ethnic group. With the partitioning of the Ottoman Empire, its Kurdish-majority...
Decade: Armenians and Kurds in the Young Turk Era, 1915–25". In Jongerden, Joost; Verheij, Jelle (eds.). Social Relations in Ottoman Diyarbekir, 1870–1915...
during the Ottoman occupation of Azerbaijan from January to May 1915, during which massacres were committed by Ottoman forces and pro-OttomanKurds. In Bitlis...
sources as Akrad 'Adawiyya (Adawiyya Kurds), settled in Lalish valley and introduced his doctrines to the local Kurds at the time practicing an old Iranic...
1915. The first Kurds to challenge the authority of the Ottoman Empire did so primarily as Ottoman subjects, rather than national Kurds. Abdul Hamid responded...
Empire Ottoman Arabs Ottoman Armenians Ottoman Greeks Ottoman Jews OttomanKurds Shaw, Stanford (1978). "The Ottoman Census System and Population, 1831-1914"...
been committed against the Kurds, with one prominent incident being the Zilan Massacre. The Turkish government categorized Kurds as "Mountain Turks" until...
controlled by the Safavids. The Kurds were an oppressed minority in the Safavid Empire and had a long conflict with them. The Kurds, unlike Persians and Azerbaijanis...
Kurdish population. [citation needed] The majority of Syrian Kurds are originally Turkish Kurds who have crossed the border during different events in the...
'land of the Kurds'; [ˌkʊɾdɪˈstɑːn] ), or Greater Kurdistan, is a roughly defined geo-cultural region in West Asia wherein the Kurds form a prominent...
part of Turkey where Kurds form the predominant ethnic group. The Kurdish Institute of Paris estimates that there are 20 million Kurds living in Turkey,...
on Kurds". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2020-10-18. "THE KURDS OF TURKEY: KILLINGS, DISAPPEARANCES AND TORTURE" (PDF). HRW: The Kurds of Turkey:...
destroyed the Ottoman Empire. In addition, Muslim ethnic groups, which were not part of the millet system, especially the Arabs and the Kurds, were outside...
Kurdish rebels and the Ottoman authorities. In reprisal to the rebellions, Ottoman authorities deported large populations of Kurds. The rebellions were...
religion, Muslim Kurds persecuted and attacked the Yazidis with particular brutality. Sometimes, during these massacres, Muslim Kurds tried to force the...
of North and East Syria. Due to Iranian roots of the Kurds, the colours used in flags used by Kurds are the same that are used in other Iranian-origin areas...
Turkmenchay in 1828, Kurds got the opportunity to work in Georgia. Most Kurds left Van and Kars for Georgia in 1918 after the Ottoman Empire oppressed them...
un-official policy in place that denies the existence of the Kurds as a distinct ethnicity. The Kurds, who are an Iranic people speaking various dialects of...
McDowall, David (2004). A Modern History of the Kurds. I.B. Tauris. Shaw, Standford J. (August 1978). "The Ottoman Census System and Population, 1831–1914"....
Baath thought the Kurds might be packing disputed areas with Kurds from Iran and Turkey, but the real tensions surfaced over the Faili Kurds, resident in Iraq...
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...
Armenians at Sasun and other places, 1894–1896, in which the Kurds took an active part. Some of the Kurds, like the nationalist Armenians, aimed to establish a...
of Sèvres, Iraqi Kurds have experienced a recent troubled political history. After the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003, Iraqi Kurds, now governed by the...
the Jinn: in Search of the Kurds and their Country. Michigan: Seaview Books, pp. xi. Zorab Aloian. "The Kurds in Ottoman Hungary". Transoxiana: Journal...
and charcoal production. The majority of the Kurd-Dagh population are Hanafi-Muslims, while most Syrian Kurds are Shafiite-Muslims. Yazidis also have a presence...
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