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Kurds are ethnically related to Greeks, A team of German, Indian and Greek specialists published the results of their research that showed that the Greeks were distant ethnic relatives of the Kurds. The Greeks and kurds according to the research team have common ancestors who resided in the area between the Kurdish areas of Turkey and Syria, (northern syrian kurds).
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Are the Kurds and Azeris related?
No. Kurds are closely related Persians. Azeris are closely related to Turks.
What race is a Kurdish child from Lebanon or any other Arab country?
Kurds are ethnically Kurdish, which is different from Arab, Persian, Turkish, or Azeri. In terms of race (white, black, hispanic, etc.), Kurds are White, but then so are Arabs, so the distinction is useless.
What is irredentism?
The doctrine that irredenta should be controlled by the country to which they are ethnically or historically related
What do people in southwest Asia ethnically identify themselves as?
People in Southwest Asia ethnically identify themselves as Arabs, Persians (Iranians), Turks, Kurds, Jews, Armenians, or various other ethnic groups depending on their specific country of origin. Ethnic identification can sometimes also be influenced by historical, cultural, and tribal affiliations.
Who is king of Phoenicia?
Phoenicia did not have a king. It was a collection of ethnically related independent city-states.
Do Kurds only marry Kurds?
Yes. The Kurds are an overwhelmingly insular community.
Are the kurds in northern Iraq predominantly sunni or shia?
Yes, but there are minorities of Shiite Muslim Kurds, Yazidi Kurds, and Baha'i Kurds.
How are Iraq's Kurds and its Yazidis alike?
The question confuses two non-mutually exclusive groups. "Kurd" is an ethnic term that refers to a group of people with certain customs, languages, and traditions. "Yazidi" is a religious term that refers to a group of people who share certain beliefs about the nature of God, etc. Almost all Yazidis are ethnically Kurds, but the majority of Kurds are NOT Yazidis, rather they are Sunni Muslims. Non-Yazidi Kurds and the Yazidis share almost all major aspects of Kurdish culture, such as language, foods, secular holidays (like Nourouz), dress styles, mannerisms, and family organizations.
Are Kurds monotheists?
Most Kurds are Muslims, so yes. There are a minority of Kurds who are Yazidi or Zoroastrian which are henotheistic faiths and not strictly monotheistic. There are also Kurds who are Atheists.
Were Xerxes and Nebuchadnezzar related?
Nebuchadnezzar (Babylonian king from 605 to 562 BCE) and Xerxes (Persian king from 486 to 465 BCE) were not related. Nebuchadnezzar was a Chaldean and therefore ethnically a Semite. Xerxes was a Mede and therefore ethnically Iranian, or Aryan. Xerxes lived almost a century after the time of Nebuchadnezzar.
Are all the kurds eliminated?
No. There are currently ~35 million Kurds.
Does Iraq have more kurds or Arabs?
Arabs are more, kurds are about 17% of Iraq, they are about 4-5 million kurds in Iraq (there are more than 20 million kurds in the world), the kurds grew more and more powerful in Iraq, now the president of Iraq is a kurd.
