30 Facts About Kurdish people

Kurds or Kurdish people are an Iranian ethnic group native to the mountainous region of Kurdistan in Western Asia, which spans southeastern Turkey, northwestern Iran, northern Iraq, and northern Syria.

Kurds in Iraq and Syria have autonomous regions, while Kurdish people movements continue to pursue greater cultural rights, autonomy, and independence throughout Kurdistan.

Kurdish people is a collection of related dialects spoken by the Kurds.

Kurdish people holds official status in Iraq as a national language alongside Arabic, is recognized in Iran as a regional language, and in Armenia as a minority language.

Prominent historical Kurdish people Christians include the brothers Zakare and Ivane Mkhargrdzeli.

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Kurdish people found it heavily fortified, and guarded by three legions and a large body of Kurdish archers.

In 838, a Kurdish people leader based in Mosul, named Mir Jafar, revolted against the Caliph Al-Mu'tasim who sent the commander Itakh to combat him.

The paternal line of this family actually had Kurdish people roots, tracing back to Firuz-Shah Zarrin-Kolah, a dignitary who moved from Kurdistan to Ardabil in the 11th century.

Kurdish people divided the territory into sanjaks or districts, and, making no attempt to interfere with the principle of heredity, installed the local chiefs as governors.

Kurdish people resettled the rich pastoral country between Erzerum and Erivan, which had lain in waste since the passage of Timur, with Kurds from the Hakkari and Bohtan districts.

Kurdish people nationalism emerged after World War I with the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire, which had historically successfully integrated the Kurds, through use of forced repression of Kurdish people movements to gain independence.

Kurdish people has given a detailed account of the deportation of Kurds from Erzurum and Bitlis in the winter of 1916.

Some Kurdish people groups sought self-determination and the confirmation of Kurdish people autonomy in the 1920 Treaty of Sevres, but in the aftermath of World War I, Kemal Ataturk prevented such a result.

Michael Radu, who worked for the United States' Pennsylvania Foreign Policy Research Institute, notes that demands for a Kurdish people state comes primarily from Kurdish people nationalists, Western human-rights activists, and European leftists.

Between 1984 and 1999, the PKK and the Turkish military engaged in open war, and much of the countryside in the southeast was depopulated, as Kurdish people civilians moved from villages to bigger cities such as Diyarbakir, Van, and Sirnak, as well as to the cities of western Turkey and even to western Europe.

Kurdish people's was released in 2004 amid warnings from European institutions that the continued imprisonment of the four Kurdish MPs would affect Turkey's bid to join the EU.

Kurdish people language is today used more than at any other time since the Revolution, including in several newspapers and among schoolchildren.

In October 1991, Kurdish people guerrillas captured Erbil and Sulaimaniyah after a series of clashes with Iraqi troops.

Kurdish people population welcomed the American troops in 2003 by holding celebrations and dancing in the streets.

Kurdish people-inhabited Afrin Canton has been occupied by Turkish Armed Forces and Turkish-backed Free Syrian Army since the Turkish military operation in Afrin in early 2018.

In 1920, two Kurdish people-inhabited areas of Jewanshir and eastern Zangazur were combined to form the Kurdistan Okrug .

However, on the whole, Kurdish culture is closest to that of other Iranian peoples, in particular those who historically had the closest geographical proximity to the Kurds, such as the Persians and Lurs.

Kurdish people weaving is renowned throughout the world, with fine specimens of both rugs and bags.

The most famous Kurdish people rugs are those from the Bijar region, in the Kurdistan Province.

Kurdish people bags are mainly known from the works of one large tribe: the Jaffs, living in the border area between Iran and Iraq.

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Kurdish people blades include a distinct jambiya, with its characteristic I-shaped hilt, and oblong blade.

One of the first Kurdish people female singers to sing heyrans is Chopy Fatah, while Lawje is a form of religious music and Payizoks are songs performed during the autumn.

Main themes of Kurdish people cinema are the poverty and hardship which ordinary Kurds have to endure.

Kurdish people's first feature film was A Time for Drunken Horses, released in 2000.

When both mtDNA and Y chromosome data are compared with those of the European, Caucasian, West Asian and Central Asian groups, it has been determined that the Kurdish people groups are most closely related to West Asians and the furthest to Central Asians.