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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MP-IDSA: Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses · 30 September 2024 English

"The agreement defines the EUROSATORY international defence directions of cooperation in the technico- and security exhibition for the first time military sector, the process of training the necessary specialists and …

Türkiye and the NATO alliance. elections by Syrian Kurds are ‘unacceptable’ https://www.dailysabah.com/business/defe begin delivering 20 KAAN Block elections-by-Syrian-Kurds 10 fighter jets to the Turkish Air Force. 01 JUNE ense-minister-says-planned-elections-by-Syrian-Kurds https://en.kurdpress.com/news/159592/Turkey-def ense-minister-says-planned-elections-by-Syrian-Kurds https://en.kurdpress.com/news/159592/Turkey-def ense-minister-says-planned-elections-by-Syrian-Kurds https://www.dailysabah.com/business/defense/tur


Amnesty International · 29 September 2024 English

Humanitarian worker and civil society activist Pakhshan Azizi, from Iran’s oppressed Kurdish ethnic minority, is at risk of execution following a grossly unfair trial by a Revolutionary Court in Tehran. …

oppressed ethnic minorities, including Baluchis and Kurds. On 29 January 2024, Iranian authorities arbitrarily dissidents. Ethnic minorities in Iran, including Kurds, face widespread discrimination, curtailing their


CEIP: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace · 19 September 2024 English

Russia’s military intervention in Syria reflected a more assertive foreign policy. However, its ability to expand its influence to Lebanon and beyond has been restricted.

northeastern Syria by countering U.S. support for Syrian Kurds and undermining the semi-autonomous enti� that has


UN: The United Nations · 18 September 2024 English

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of Iraqi citizenship to Feyli Kurds. It is concerned that Feyli Kurds still face administrative obstacles process of reinstating Iraqi citizenship to Feyli Kurds and removing all administrative obstacles throughout


CFPPR: Center for Foreign Policy and Peace Research · 16 September 2024 English

The early generation of experts on the issue described anti-Americanism with the actions or statements that targeted the policy, culture, values, or citizens of the US,9 while some of the …

available census data to measure the ratio of ethnic Kurds in the population. Nonetheless, our sample contains


World Bank Group · 12 September 2024 English

Figure 115. Accordingly, in 42 settlements (%29), Kurds, Alevis, Laz people, Syrians, Afghans, Terekeme mentioned apart from Turks. The highest number is among Kurds, and the most ethnically diverse region is Erzincan


CEIP: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace · 10 September 2024 English

In Syria’s border regions, changes in demographics, economics, and security mean that an inter-Syrian peace process will require consensus among main regional powers that Syria must remain united, that no …

While the United States, in alliance with the Kurds, fought to eliminate ISIS, the Assad regime achieved Governorate, those who �lled the vacuum were the Kurds, principally the YPG, while along the eastern border its midst as a major securi� threat—namely the Kurds in northern Syria who supported the PKK. When it there ended up replacing the Kurds in Afrin.48 By mid-2023, Afrin’s Kurds were a minori�, constituting northern Iraq is ethnically driven, involving Arabs, Kurds, and Turks. A closer look at whatAnkara has built


ICWA: Indian Council of World Affairs · 2 September 2024 English

The Rise Of The Radical Rosana 2023 Routledge 303.484 Right In The Global South Pinheiro- RIS Machado, 115056 Ed. [...] India And The Global Surendra 2024 Wisdom Tree 327.54 South: …

054 Defeat Of ISIS, The Fall Of Cockburn COC The Kurds, The Conflict 115118 With Iran 104. Occupation:


ICWA: Indian Council of World Affairs · 2 September 2024 English

The Rise Of The Radical Rosana 2023 Routledge 303.484 Right In The Global South Pinheiro- RIS Machado, 115056 Ed. [...] India And The Global Surendra 2024 Wisdom Tree 327.54 South: …

054 Defeat Of ISIS, The Fall Of Cockburn COC The Kurds, The Conflict 115118 With Iran 104. Occupation:


World Bank Group · 27 August 2024 English

Across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, land is a scarce and valuable resource. The projected increase in land demand due to demographic trends, coupled with decreasing land …

following Saddam Hussein’s military assaults on the Kurds in the Kurdistan region of Iraq in 1988 (Eklund


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