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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RCOA: Refugee Council of Australia · 11 April 2024 English
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000 Iranians, including stateless Feyli (Faili) Kurds from Iran, went through the Fast Track process with …
BP: Budapest Process · 10 April 2024 English
The Background Report aimed at addressing three primary objectives: i) Providing a conceptual framework for the implementation of the research, in order to define the main target group of the …
largest demographic group within our sample is Muslim Kurds, accounting for 59% (see Figure 6). Muslim Arabs …
IPIS: Institute for Political and International Studies · 8 April 2024 Arabic
وَٞاهلل، دًٕٚا اوًٍ )2022( ىٍ ډٺبڅٍ ثب ٭ىًان »ٵَٝزَب ي سُئهيَبْ ػهبىٌ اثَٔٚهڈ ػئهي ثَاْ ٭َاٷ ي اٹچٕڈ ٽَىٕشبن«، سإطَٕار اثشپبٍ ؿٕه ٍا ثَ ٭َاٷ ي اٹچٕڈ ٽَىٕشبن ثٍَٕٓ ډٓ …
Reuters ,(2017), »China says supports Iraq's unity as Kurds vote in referendum«, Available at: https://www.reuters … Aziz,. (2022), »Kurdistan in China: Are the Iraqi Kurds Interested in a Relationship?«, Washingtion Institute … org/ policy-analysis/kurdistan-china-are-iraqi-kurds-interested-relationship, 2022/08/10. Shareef, M …
Amnesty International · 3 April 2024 English
This research briefing documents the horrifying surge in executions in Iran in 2023, the highest in eight years. More than half of the executions were for drug-related offences amid a …
pular-uprising/; Amnesty International, “ Two Kurds executed amid increasing use of death penalty as … https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2020/07/iran-two-kurds-executed-amid-increasing-use-of-death-penalty-a …
DIIS: Dansk Institut for Internationale Studier · 3 April 2024 English
There is a widespread perception these years that strongmen around the world are winning, posing new geopolitical challenges and threats to the Western liberal order and security architecture.
nationalists such as the, often conservatively Muslim, Kurds to move Turkey Beyond Nationalism as the 2006 edited … Erdogan. But this alliance between Erdogan and the Kurds was also in for a U-turn during these years. Partly … Syrian Kurdish town of Kobane, Demirtas and the Kurds refused to support Erdogan’s plans for a super presidency … Turkish nationalist suspicion that the US and the Kurds were working together to undermine Turkish national … putting Erdogan’s de facto alliance with the Kurds under pressure. Consequently, the AKP lost its …
Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention · 29 March 2024 English
of the Convention on the Prevention and Artsakh Punishment of the Crime of Genocide:“[d]eliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole …
conducted hundreds of invasion aiming to eliminate Kurds, and the airstrikes by drone and fighter jet against … The Unfortunately, a lasting peace seems nowhere Kurds received support from the US in the fight in sight … the Liakos, C., Colliva, C., & Mawad, D. (2023, Kurds, with the express aim of removing all November 16) … influence Türkiye seeks to remove. It has targeted Kurds as terrorists for their alleged Mustafa, W. (2023 … Enforced Disappearance.” Refugees assaults against Kurds in Syria, Iraq, and within International. Türkiye …
NYU: New York University · 25 March 2024 English
Donors must help pursue justice and accountability for Kurdish victims as they do for other Syrian victims. The post Confronting Forced Demographic Change in Northern Syria: Inclusive Justice for Sustainable …
Chatham House · 21 March 2024 English
Intense and violent competition to control the tiny border district of Sinjar in northwestern Iraq continues to have significant implications for Middle East security and stability. Recent escalation between the …
a militant political group fighting for the rights of Kurds in Türkiye and across the region. Türkiye has been … minority that is the district’s largest community), Kurds, Sunni Arabs and Shia Arabs. In 2020, the Baghdad … Chatham House Kurds, Sunni Arabs and Shia Arabs.12 The KRG considers Yezidis to be Kurds (a view many … reject the KDP’s view and treatment of them as Kurds, and there has been a movement towards an independent … attle-to-unearth-iraqs-mass-graves-isis-yezidi-kurds-baghdad. 15 International Crisis Group (2018), ‘Winning …
CFPPR: Center for Foreign Policy and Peace Research · 7 March 2024 English
This study aims to reflect on qualitative interviewing with a particular emphasis on semi-structured interviewing (SSI), with the purpose of guiding students and young scholars of International Relations and Political …
focused more policy attention on the conflict between Kurds in Iraq and Saddam Hussein’s regime than on the … Provide Comfort generated increasing sympathy for Kurds in the U.S., and suspicions of Turkish intentions … IF11380. 7 Stephen Zunes, “The United States and the Kurds: A Short History,” Common Dreams, October 26, 2007 … commondreams.org/views/2007/10/26/united-states-and-kurds-brief-history. 8 Ibid. 3 All Azimuth R. Outzen groups … New Offensive: Implications for Türkiye, Iraqi Kurds, and the United States,” Washington Institute, June …
CGAI: Canadian Global Affairs Institute · 1 March 2024 English
Table of Contents Introduction Can China Act Rationally Regarding Taiwan? Attitudes in Taiwan Are Hardening Taiwan is a Genuine Democracy Can Taiwan Defend Itself? What Are the Projected Costs in …
Carter, Ash. 2019. “Donald Trump’s Betrayal of the Kurds is a Blow to America’s Credibility.” The Economist … com/leaders/2019/10/17/donald-trumps-betrayal-of- the-kurds-is-a-blow-to-americas-credibility. Chiang, Chin-yeh … Richard Soikolsky. 2019. “Trump’s Betrayal of the Kurds? U.S. Allies Will Get Over It, and Soon.” Carnegie … https://carnegieendowment.org/2019/10/23/trump-s-betrayal-of-kurds-u.s.-allies-will-get-over-it-and-soon- pub-80166 … abandoning Taiwan the way he did the Kurds in 2019. On his betrayal of the Kurds see, among others, Carter (2019) …