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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 is the diversity of the Kurds?
The Kurds are an ethnically diverse group with different languages, religions, and cultural practices among them. They primarily inhabit regions in Turkey, Iraq, Iran, and Syria, and have a long history of advocating for autonomy and recognition of their unique identity.
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.
Are Kurds Semites?
Well, the Kurdish nation is originally of Semitic Descent, the Kurds lived in ancient Mesopotamia which is modern Iraq. As the Babylonian Empire began to grow they pushed the semitic Kurds to the caucasus to the south of Russia. Their blood mixed with the Nords and Aryans even their Language Changed to an Indo-Eoropean language which is now modern day Kurdish. Now, the Kurds are a mix of predominantly Semitic blood and some Aryan. It is always misunderstood that the Kurds are Aryan.
What do people in southwest Asia ethnically identify themselves as?
They identify themselves with whatever ethnicity they pertain to, just like anyone else. The majority of Southwest Asians are ethnically Arab, and so will identify with that term, but there are numerous minorities who amount to over 200 million people, such as Persians, Turks, Kurds, Copts, Jews, Druze, Maronites, etc.
Who is king of Phoenicia?
Phoenicia did not have a king. It was a collection of ethnically related independent city-states.
Why are Kurds referred as a stateless nation?
The Kurds are referred to as a stateless nation because they are dispersed throughout many different countries. They don't have their own nation and can be found in Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Armenia, and Syria.
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.
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.
