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Kurdish Language and Culture
Kurdish language and culture dates back to the ancient Kingdom of Corduene. It is still prominent in areas of the mideast. The geo-cultural area known as Kurdistan is home to 25 to 30 million Kurdish people. This area includes Southeastern Anatolia, Upper Mesopotamia, Zagros, Iran, Iraq, Turkey, and Syria.
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How many people speak kurdish?
There are about 30 Milion Kurdish-speakers living in Iran, Iraq, Turkey, Syria and a lot of other European countries and also America.
There are several Kurdish languages and dialects, including Kurmanci (also spelled Kurmanji in English), Sorani, Gorani, Zazaki, Kermanshahi, etc.
Just in turkey, there are more 18 million Kurdish people and they speak two languages: Zazaki and Kurmanci. Around 4 million live in Iraq and they speak Sorani, Badini-Kurmanci, and Hawrami, and in Iran there are also between 6-7 million Kurdish people and they speak Sorani and Kurmanci. In Syria, there are d 2-2.5 million Kurdish people and all of them speak Kurmanci.
How many wives can a Kurdish man have?
In Kurdish culture, men are traditionally allowed to have up to four wives, as per Islamic law. However, the practice of polygamy is becoming less common in modern times and may vary depending on individual beliefs and local customs.
Why is it difficult for Kurds to reclaim their homeland?
Kurdistan is a term applied to regions of southeast Turkey, northeast Syria, northern Iraq, and northwest Iran in reference to the Kurdish ethnic majority who live on that land. The Kurds, by and large, want independence from their host nations and to create an independent republic on these majority Kurdish lands.
The difficulty for this comes from two main issues. In the case of Turkish and Iranian Kurdistan, we are dealing with two very strong countries with a developed infrastructure and substantial military power. Even though Kurds punch above their weight as concerns their military prowess, their militias like the Peshmerga could not survive a direct assault against the incredible power of the Turkish Army or the Iranian Army, which are among the three most powerful in the Middle East. Conversely, the Kurds in Iraqi and Syrian Kurdistan have been able to create de facto independence due to the lack of political force able to compel their staying under Arab domination. This has come as a result of the Iraqi Civil War (between the government and ISIL) and the Syrian Civil War. Regardless, Iraqi Kurdistan wishes quite strongly to continue to receive US protection to fight ISIL and therefore must support the US stance that Iraq remain one united, federal republic and not assert independence.
When did Kurdistan become an official state?
Kurdistan is not an official state recognized by the international community. It is an autonomous region spanning parts of Turkey, Iraq, Iran, and Syria where Kurds predominantly reside. Efforts to establish an independent Kurdish state have faced significant challenges due to geopolitical factors and opposition from neighboring countries.
Do Kurds consider themselves a nation but not a state?
The way the question is posed is difficult to read. Kurds are humans and therefore they cannot be a state, the same way that Americans cannot be a state. Americans have a State called the USA and Kurds wish that they had a state called Kurdistan. What unites the Kurds as a people or a nation is their language, culture, history, religion, and their warmth and hospitality.
Currently, Kurds consider themselves a stateless people or a nation without a state. Kurds are considered a nation because they are an ethnicity with unified traditions and a historic homeland. They are considered stateless because they do not control any independent territories that would conceivably belong to a Kurdish Country.
How can you have a Kurdistan visa?
Kurdistan is not an independent nation, it is rather a name used to classify an area which is mainly inhabited by Kurds. Since it is not a country or nation there is no requirement for a visa to visit that area. Apply for a visa of the nation(s) that you are visiting.
The one exception to the above is for Iraqi Kurdistan, which, because of its relative autonomy, has a VISA system that is distinct from the Iraqi VISA system. Depending on your nation of origin, you may be able to get a VISA-on-arrival or you may need to apply for an Iraqi Kurdistan VISA from your local Iraqi Embassy. Please see the below link for more information on this.
By mid 1999 the Kurdish Democratic Party controlled of the Kurdish region?
By mid-1999, the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) had control over the Kurdish region in Iraq, particularly in the northern areas. The KDP, led by Massoud Barzani, established its authority in the Kurdish autonomous region in the aftermath of the Gulf War in the early 1990s. This control was solidified through agreements and conflict with rival Kurdish political factions.
How do you say im kurdish in kurdish?
There are TWO different MAIN dialects;
Sorani and Kurmanji
In Sorani you say: Mn Kurdm
In Kurmanji you say: Az Kurdm
Should Kurdistan be an independent country?
As this is a should question, you may get different answers.
Answer 1: YES
Kurdistan should become a country in the vein of ethnic nationalism that we saw in the 19th century. Like the Greeks and Bulgarians that sought indepedence from the Ottoman Empire because of rampant discrimination and a unique cultural identity from their imperial overlords, the Kurds have suffered rampant discrimination (especially the Al-Anfal Campaign - which is a genocide) and retain a unique cultural identity. They are the majority ethnicity over a large portion of land, which would make the country viable. The only problem is that it would be a landlocked country. However, the Kurds deserve the right to be monitors and defenders of their culture when their "host nations" of Turkey Iraq, Iran, and Syria have all consistently shown their unwillingness to treat Kurds as equal citizens. On the flip side, because of the Iraq War of 2003-2011 and the Syrian Civil War of 2011-Present, Iraqi Kurdistan and Syrian Kurdistan have effectively become de facto independent regions.
Answer 2: NO
Kurdistan would have huge problems with all of its neighbors from day 1 already (as it took their lands). This would destabilize the Middle-East even more than it already is and result in a lot of human suffering, and possibly even a huge war.
[Please also see the Discussion Section on this question.]
Born ziad asad kurdish born Iraq?
Yes, Ziad Asad was born in Erbil (Hawler), the capital city of the Kurdistan region. He now recides in Europe.
In which year was Kurdistan divided?
Three years: 1639, 1919, 1923.
Most of what is today considered Kurdistan was united last during the Safavid Empire of Shah Ismail I. At the end of the Ottoman-Safavid War of 1623-1639, the Treaty of Zuhab was signed, which ceded to the Ottomans control of Mesopotamia. This cut off what is today called Iranian Kurdistan (remaining under Safavid Persian control) from the other regions of Kurdistan, which came under Ottoman control. In 1919, the Treaty of Versailles split Iraqi Kurdistan and Syrian Kurdistan off from Turkish Kurdistan, giving them to a British and French mandate respectively. There was a small attempt to create an independent Kurdistan in what is now southeast Turkey, but this was cut short by the War of Turkish Independence and the signing of the Treaty of Lausanne in 1923 which finalized the Turkish-Syrian and Turkish-Iraqi borders.
Do Kurdish men really love older British women?
No, to be honest i think they enjoy young, free, beautiful girls. I know aload of kurdish men and its where most girls in my town hang out. The kurdish guys own two resteraunts which are across the road from each other. Kurdish are very friendly but very sex mad! be careful x
i have known kurdish men for 8 years i was with one for 5 years and i have been to kurdistan ,yes kurdish men would like young beautiful free girls , some kurdish men are very caring and loving and look after their families some would not give you 1 pence , its all sex at the end of the day whether your old or young they don't love us they love their own women and prefer to marry virgins ,i once knew a 27 year old to have sex with a 50 year old women ,and on occaision the odd few have addmitted to beastiality, sex b 4 marriage in kurdistan is a big no no , and if you do happen to get swept of your feet by one of these dark haired handsome charmers once he gets his visa you will suddenly find your no longer his gf your his friend cause he had a plan all along BE WARNED KEEP YOUR DISTANCE THAT GOES FOR ALL GIRLS YOUNG OLD AND ANY NATIONALITY .
hi ive been with a younger kurdish boy for two years we had a baby but sadly she has just died he has just got his passport and flew home to see his family and never went to her funeral he tells me he loves me and hes coming back to England in two weeks today he tells me he is goin to marry maybe next year and i will always be his friend i love him and im grieving for my little girl i was his girlfriend until he flew home he always told me he didnt want to marry and asked me to move in with him to move to Canada etc his name is nawzad tofiq aka ali do you know him.. im brokenhearted and need to break up with him but my hearts hurting he doesnt like me to go out or on holiday with my friends and still says this please help
He is controlling by telling you he loves and this is probably only if anything goes wrong for him and he needs you to help him ie: with his status in the UK or financially etc.
Once he has married one of his own women from Kurdistan he will not want to know you, i suppose at least he is being honest with you to some degree.
However, it is inhumane to not even attend his own child's funeral and that is appalling. Truth is Kurdish men put their family (back in Kurdistan) and their friends before a girlfriend of a different race.
I speak from personal experience having wasted the last 6 years for a man i thought loved me and would settle down with me one day but all i heard were excuses (usually related to his family and how they needed him). I did everything in my power to show him that i loved him and he could see how he was hurting me and messing my mind up, but he obviously didn't care.
In the end i left him and it took me 6 years to finally do it. In those 6 years all he did as soon as he got his passport was travel to and fro from here to Kurdistan. His trips were expensive and a big mystery, i was told by others that he was planning on getting married there, he would swear it wasnt true, but still wouldn't commit to me. This was the worst experience of my life and i have lost trust in people due to this.
My advice to you is sit down and think things through, surely you are not that desperate to let him play with your feeling the way he is at the moment? There is much more going for you but sometimes you have to put your foot down and say enough is enough.
I have been with my kurdish partner for nearly 8 years now, we have 3 children together. He already had a passport before i met him and he is 3years older than me. I have been on webcam loads with his fasmily, and soon when me and the kids get our passports we will be going over their. But on a serious note, i think most kurds only want sex and a passport off us Europe/USA women. I know alot of his friends who have only got married to older women for a passport. Im lucky enough to have found a decent kurd. I know a lot of mine and his friends who have kurdish partners who are very controlling and minipulating and the women always seem to have black eyes or bruises and they say they have 'walked into a door' or 'fell down the stairs' I HATE the way i see most kurds treating our people when we let them into our country. I think their should be a law about getting married to other nationals over in our country. Id personally say their is 1 decent kurd to ever 100 of them.When did the Kurdish genocide end?
The Kurdish genocide, known as the Anfal campaign, ended in 1988. It was a series of systematic attacks and killings targeting Kurdish populations in Iraq carried out by Saddam Hussein's regime.
By mid-1999 the Kurdish Democratic Party controlled of the Kurdish region?
By mid-1999, the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) had control of the Kurdish region in Iraq. The KDP, led by Masoud Barzani, established control over parts of the region following the Kurdish civil war in the mid-1990s. The KDP's dominance in the region continued to shape Kurdish politics in the years to come.
By mid-1999 the Kurdish Democratic Party controlled how much of the Kurdish region?
By mid-1999, the Kurdish Democratic Party controlled approximately half of the Kurdish region in Northern Iraq.
What three countries have the largest Kurdish populations?
The three countries with the largest Kurdish populations are Turkey, Iran, and Iraq. These countries are home to the majority of the Kurdish population worldwide.
Kenan imirzalioglu from kurdish origin?
Kenan Imirzalioglu is a Turkish actor, not of Kurdish origin. He was born in Turkey to a Turkish family.
In what way were the Kurds persecuted?
The Kurds have been persecuted in numerous ways. Some of them include:
- Being deprived of their lands, and being forced to relocate, sometimes at the barrel of a gun and other times under restrictive legislation
- In Turkey, Kurdish cities have been renamed with Turkish names to erase the Kurdish identity of the region. The Kurdish language was illegal for over 50 years and the issuing of Kurdish-Language names to Kurdish children was illegal during the same period.
- In Iraq, there were vicious attacks and genocides perpetrated against the Kurdish people. Entire towns were attacked with nerve gas and mustard gas to ethnically cleanse the Kurdish people.
- In Iraq, Saddam Hussein's government actively promoted an Arab resettlement project in northern Iraq to lessen the Kurdish majority in those regions. Today, the city of Kirkuk is not part of Kurdistan because the Kurds no longer represent the majority of the city (48%) due to Arab migrations into the city. This is very similar to how the Palestinians claim that their lands are taken from them by Israeli settlers.
- In Iran and Turkey, their attempts for increased autonomy have been crushed, politicians who have attempted to negotiate for increased autonomy have been threatened with assassination (and some have actually been assassinated).
- Non-Muslims Kurds have their religions repressed. The most populous non-Muslim Kurds are the Yazidi, but there are also Baha'i and numerous smaller faiths (of less than 10,000 individuals). They have historically been unable to pray freely in their temples, especially if they are polytheistic or accused of being polytheistic.
Do kurdish men love older women?
As with any cultural group, opinions on relationships can vary among Kurdish men. Some may be attracted to older women for various reasons, while others may prefer partners closer to their own age. It ultimately depends on the individual's personal preferences and beliefs.
Kurdistan refers to a region that spans across parts of Turkey, Iraq, Iran, and Syria. It is a historically and culturally significant area for the Kurdish people. The borders of Kurdistan are not officially recognized as a distinct political entity.
When was kurdistan split to 4 pieces?
Kurdistan has never been officially split into four pieces. The Kurdish population is spread across several countries including Turkey, Iraq, Iran, and Syria, with regions within these countries often referred to as Kurdistan. However, there is no internationally recognized independent state of Kurdistan divided into four pieces.
Kurdistan is a region with a significant Kurdish population spread across several countries, including Iraq, Iran, Turkey, and Syria. The creation of an independent Kurdistan would require cooperation and recognition from these countries, which is challenging due to political, historical, and cultural differences. Additionally, geopolitics, regional conflicts, and international relations further complicate the establishment of an independent Kurdish state.
