Kurds

Kurds (Kurdish: کورد ,Kurd‎) or Kurdish people are an Iranic ethnic group native to a mountainous region of Western Asia known as Kurdistan, which spans southeastern Turkey, northwestern Iran, northern Iraq, and northern Syria. There are exclaves of Kurds in Central Anatolia, Khorasan, and the Caucasus, as well as significant Kurdish diaspora communities in the cities of western Turkey (in particular Istanbul) and Western Europe (primarily in Germany). The Kurdish population is estimated to be between 30 and 45 million.Kurds speak the Kurdish languages and the Zaza–Gorani languages, which belong to the Western Iranian branch of the Iranian languages in …

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CAUS: Centre for Arab Unity Studies · 3 July 2024 English

Historians (Andelman 1997; MacMillan 2003 ; Neiberg 2017) have traced the current security situation to the fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Sykes–Picot Agreement (1916) after World War I, …

or ethnicity, such as the Yazidis, Chechens, and Kurds, to name but a few, and have had to seek neutral


CEIP: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace · 27 June 2024 English

Israel has no military options that could achieve a better result than a negotiated solution or a return to the status quo.

down an Iranian missile over Erbil on April 15, Kurds wondered why such defenses weren’t activated when


World Bank Group · 24 June 2024 English

This report provides a high-level assessment of Armenia's water security status across different water security dimensions (endowment, sector architecture, performance and outcomes) with the aim of highlighting where efforts should …

include Yazidis, Russians, Assyrians, Greeks, and Kurds. This diversity reflects the country's historical


EU: European Union · 17 June 2024 English

The “EUAA Quarterly Overview of Asylum Case Law” is based on a selection of cases from the EUAA Case Law Database, which contains summaries of decisions and judgments related to …

for military service or forced recruitment by Kurds. Military service in reserve ranks: Syria Latvia


BESA: Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies · 3 June 2024 English

Erdoğan also expected to benefit from a crack that had appeared in the opposition: following its defeat in the general elections, the "Table of Six" coalition fell apart when the …

dissatisfaction among Erdoğan's own electorate. Some Kurds, too, preferred to give their votes to representatives


Brookings Institution · 3 June 2024 English

The inability of the Security Council to affect the major military dimensions of the Ukraine and Israel-Gaza crises is unsurprising to any realist scholar of international politics, but has generated …

drafted in response to Iraqi fighting against the Kurds, following the withdrawal of U.S. forces. That resolution


EU: European Union · 28 May 2024 English

The purpose of this report is to provide relevant information for the assessment of applications for international protection, including refugee status and subsidiary protection, and in particular for use in …

boycott, 14 May 2023, url; Aydoğan, B., Iraqi Kurds Face Legitimacy Issues Amid Election Deadlock and TWI, 7 August 2023, url 85 Aydoğan, B., Iraqi Kurds Face Legitimacy Issues Amid Election Deadlock and September 2023, url, para. 6; Aydoğan, B., Iraqi Kurds Face Legitimacy Issues Amid Election Deadlock and say, 8 January 2024, url 89 Aydoğan, B., Iraqi Kurds Face Legitimacy Issues Amid Election Deadlock and row, 16 September 2023, url 101 Arab News, Iraqi Kurds protest unpaid salaries from Baghdad, 5 September


EU: European Union · 28 May 2024 English

The purpose of this report is to provide relevant information for the assessment of applications for international protection, including refugee status and subsidiary protection, and in particular for use in …

reserved for Christians and one seat each for Fayli Kurds, Yazidis, Sabean Mandeans, and Shabaks. In the KRI minority groups by PMF in Ninewa governorate, notably Kurds, Turkmen and Christians, was reported. Detainees


World Bank Group · 23 May 2024 English

This Syria Economic Monitor leverages innovative alternative and remote-based data sources to analyze recent economic developments in a nation still grappling with the most deadly and one of the most …

“Turkey destroying NE Syria oil, power facilities: Kurds.” Al Monitor, October 11, 2023. https://www.al-monitor turkey-destroying-ne-syria-oil-power-facilities-kurds. 17 This includes the power generation of the Rumeilan


World Bank Group · 20 May 2024 English

This diagnostic provides an overview of the foundational identity ecosystem in Lebanon, which is composed of the civil registry and the national identification systems.

populations in Lebanon, including Armenians, Iraqis, Kurds, Turks, Assyrians, and Circassians. As a result


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