klasyki: History of the Kurds

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The Kurds are an Iranian ethnic group in the Middle East. They have historically inhabited the mountainous areas to the south of Lake Van and Lake Urmia, a geographical area collectively referred to as Kurdistan. Most Kurds speak Northern Kurdish Kurmanji Kurdish (Kurmanji) and Central Kurdish (Sorani). There are various hypotheses as to predecessor populations of the Kurds, such as the Carduchoi of Classical Antiquity. The earliest known Kurdish dynasties under Islamic rule (10th to 12th centuries) are the Hasanwayhids, the Marwanids, the Rawadids, the Shaddadids, followed by the Ayyubid dynasty founded by Saladin. The Battle of Chaldiran of 1514 is an important turning point in Kurdish hi…

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A Modern History of the Kurds is a history of the Kurdish people, written by David McDowall and published by I.B.Tauris in 1996 (hardback first edition). The work is a history of the Kurdish people from the 19th century to the present.

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Mardin and Diyarbakir: An Ethnographic Account of Conflict. Chapter two starts with the author direct observations of the atmosphere in Turkey just before and during the 2015 in clashes in urban cities. It re-examines the author’s ethnographical account in Mardin just before the conflict in May 2015, and then recounts his experiences of being caught in a curfew during heavy clashes between the Turkish military and police forces and Kurdish youth activists and guerrillas in the Sur district of Diyarbakır in September 2015, when female Kurdish MPs and women’s rights activists came to his rescue. The ethnographic account will show how people live a ‘normal’ day under continuous conflict and au…

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KURDISH LANGUAGE i. HISTORY OF THE KURDISH LANGUAGE

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KURDISH LANGUAGE ii. HISTORY OF KURDISH STUDIES

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A Cross-Dialect Account of Kurdish Past Tense Categories, with Special Reference to Southern Kurdish

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The Kurds are the largest ethnic minority in Turkey. According to various estimates, they compose between 15% and 25% of the population of Turkey. There are Kurds living in various provinces of Turkey, but they are primarily concentrated in the east and southeast of the country within the region viewed by Kurds as Turkish Kurdistan. During the violent suppressions of numerous Kurdish rebellions since the establishment of the Republic of Turkey in 1923, such as the Sheikh Said Rebellion, the Ararat rebellion, and the Dersim Rebellion, massacres have periodically been committed against the Kurds, with one prominent incident being the Zilan Massacre. The Turkish government categorized Kurds as…

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Kurdistan (Kurdish: کوردستان, lit. 'land of the Kurds'; [ˌkʊɾdɪˈstɑːn] ), or Greater Kurdistan, is a roughly defined geo-cultural region and stateless nation in West Asia wherein the Kurds form a prominent majority population and the Kurdish culture, languages, and national identity have historically been based. Geographically, Kurdistan roughly encompasses the northwestern Zagros and the eastern Taurus mountain ranges. Kurdistan generally comprised the following four regions: southeastern Turkey (Northern Kurdistan), northern Iraq (Southern Kurdistan), northwestern Iran (Eastern Kurdistan), and northern Syria (Western Kurdistan). Some definitions also include parts of southern Transcaucasi…