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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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Is there a difference between Turkish kangals and Kurdish Kangal dogs?
There are two types of Kangal breeds. Essentially the infamous Kangal that is widely known is Turkish. However there exists a different breed to Turkish Kangals, which look quite similar, but however are different in some ways. This breed of dog can be found at the heart of Kurdistan's mountains. (Experience from visiting both Kurdistan and Turkey many times and seeing different types of these dogs).
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.
What are some ongoing problems in Iraq between Shiites Sunnis and Kurds?
Answer 1
they all have problem of only presence of US in Iraq.
Answer 2
There are far more substantial problems between the Shiite Arabs, Sunni Arabs, and Kurds than just the American Armed Forces which have departed Iraq since December 16, 2011. It is also unhelpful to see the conflict as a religious conflict. In Iraq, people traditionally organize politically by their religious group.
As a result, there have been numerous confrontations between Iraq's diverse population for political advantages. Among these conflicts exists a conflict between Sunni Arabs and Shiite Arab, especially near Baghdad where the neighborhoods are evenly mixed between them. As a result, we also have seen numerous Shiite-Shiite conflicts in areas where rival Shiite leaders were competing for power. The Iraqi Army and Police Force and tried to maintain a lid on the various factional groups, such as the Sadrists, Shi'a Groups in the Shi'a Holy Region, Sunni Arab Fedayyin, the Kurdish Pershmerga and branches of the PKK from attacking each other and establishing power bases.
Kurds and Sunni Arabs want increased autonomy from the central government. Kurds want their own rule in order to practice their own culture and defend themselves from violent attacks and genocides. Sunni Arabs (especially in Anbar Province) want autonomy in order to retain the local control that that they had under Saddam. Shiites, as the majority, prefer a more powerful federal system.
Kurds are the second largest ethnic group in what country?
Kurds are the second largest ethnic group in TURKEY(after Turks) and in IRAQ and SYRIA (after Arabs). In Iran, Kurds are the third largest ethnic group behind Persians and Azeris.
Are Kurdish and Arabic spoken in Turkey?
Kurdish is spoken in Eastern Turkey, mostly in Diyarbakır region where there is a concentration of Kurds.
Arabic is not widely spoken in Turkey, there is not a significant Arab community except in Hatay Province and Gaziantep; however, Arabic is used liturgically in Mosques.
Are Kurdish people from Lebanon Asian like Koreans or white like Turks or their own background?
Their own background.
Kurdish people have no connection to Lebanon.
They are certainly not "Oriental" in appearance, like the Koreans, and bear much greater similarity to the Persians.
They are not ethnically Turkish.
Are the Kurds and Azeris related?
No. Kurds are closely related Persians. Azeris are closely related to Turks.
What languages does Jalal Talabani speak?
kurdish mother tonge.arabic,english,turkish,persian,french and russian
Are Turkish and kurdish languages similar?
No. Turkish is an Altaic Language. Kurdish is an Indo-European Language. Kurdish is much closer to Farsi (the language of Iran) than Arabic or Turkish.
What is the zip code of kurdistan?
Kurdistan is a region that straddles four different countries and therefore has a multiplicity of zip codes. Please resubmit your question specifying which city in Kurdistan you are asking about for a possible answer.
What do you get when a Turk and a Kurd marry?
You get a marriage between a Turk and a Kurd. Since most Kurds and most Turks are Sunni Muslim, this does not raise any religious issues in the marriage.
If you are referring to the offspring of such a marriage, the child usually identifies with the ethnicity of their father in Turkey or Iraq. So a Turkish father and a Kurdish mother would yield a Turk and a Kurdish father and a Turkish mother would yield a Kurd. In Iran, Turks do not usually self-identify since they are an extremely small minority, so Turks who marry into Kurdish or Azeri families usually take on that identity for themselves and their children. In Western Society, well, the kid can go "halfsies".
Which ethnic group has never had their own country Persians Turks kurds or pashtun?
Kurds have never had their own country
Persians have Iran
Turks have Turkey, and many other central asian countries
Pashtuns have Afghanistan (Pashtun is synonymous with Afghan)
How do you spell Peshmerga in Arabic letters?
in Arabic letters:
بيشمركة
in Kurdish letters:
پێشمهرگه
When was Kurdistan divided between Iraq Iran Syria and Turkey?
The first major division of the region of Kurdistan occurred in the early 1500s when the Safavids of Iran and Ottomans of Turkey created a border that separated Iranian Kurdistan permanently from Turkish/Iraqi/Syrian Kurdistan. With the Fall of the Ottoman Empire, the Ottoman government capitulated to Allies at the end of World War I and signed the Treaty of Sèvres in 1919, which, among other things, granted the right for an independent Kurdistan. However, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk overthrew the Ottoman government and established the modern Republic of Turkey. He successfully opposed the Greek forces on the Anatolian mainland and prevented the realization of a new Kurdish state in the east. Thus in 1923, the Treaty of Sèvres was abrogated by the Treaty of Lausanne and Kurdistan was further divided by the creation of the French Mandate of Syria and the British Mandate of Iraq. This is how Kurdistan as a region was divided.
Does the government of Israel have conflicts with Kurdish citizens?
No. Kurdish Israelis (roughly 170,000 people) are almost all Jewish and are well-integrated into Israeli society. Israel has no territory that historically belongs to Kurdistan and therefore, there is no territorial dispute between them.
As for Kurds who still live in Kurdistan, Israel does not have issues with Turkish Kurds, but refuses entry to Syrian or Iranian Kurds (because of their national passports). Due to the vast autonomy of Iraqi Kurdistan, it is still unclear whether or not Israel will permit the entry of Iraqi Kurds to Israel. However, relations continue to improve between Iraqi Kurdistan and Israel, so Iraqi Kurds may gain a special exemption to the traditional Iraqi passport ban.
How Faili Kurds can travel out of Iran because they do not have passport?
The only real way for a Faili Kurd to travel out of Iran is by using a False (not fake, which are forgeries but false ones which are real ones but not carried by the legal/true passport holder) passport. This means obtaining one illegally. Obviously another one is to cross the border illegally in hiding. As you said, Faili Kurd have no passport as they are no recognised as full Iranian citizen.
Note that I am not advocating the use of a false passport, but simply stating the facts.
Were the Kurds brought to justice for their role in the Armenian Genocide?
There have never been any international criminal trials or civil trials concerning the Armenian Genocide since Turkey has effectively prevented many major countries from recognizing the genocide. So, no conspirator in the genocide, of which a large minority were Kurds, has ever been brought to justice.
However, unlike the Turks, several Kurds have apologized and sought forgiveness for the crimes of the Armenian Genocide or have been active in promoting the recognition of the Armenian Genocide.
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Do you need a visa to live in England if your from kurdistan?
There is not a country called Kurdistan...
So you can not be a citizen of a country which does not exist...
Whatever nationality you are... u will need a visa unless you are a citizen of an EU country or US...!
What religion is practiced by the non yazidi kurds in armenia?
Christianity is the largest religion in Armenia, and has been since about 301 CE. However, the Kurds within the country which do not practice Yezidism are generally Sunni Muslim.
Are there more Kurds in Iran or in Iraq?
There are around 6.5–7.9 million Kurds in Iran and 6.2–6.5 million Kurds in Iraq, so there are more Kurds in Iran. However, as the Iranian population overall is significantly larger, Kurds make up a more significant percentage of the population in Iraq.
Iraq is a multilingual country. In the Arabic-speaking portions they use the word 3alka (علكة). In the Kurdish speaking portions the word is Benîşt (بنيشت).
(It is worth noting that Kurdish has two major dialects, Sorani, which is more popular in Iraq and is written with the Arabic alphabet, and Kurmanji, which is more popular in Turkey - and the Kurdish world overall, which is written with the Arabic Alphabet. Both spellings of Benisht, in Kurmanji and Sorani are provided above.)
When did Jalal Talabani become President of Iraq?
Jalal Talabani He assumed office on 2005 April 7 as the first elected president of Iraq under the country's new constitution, created after Saddam Hussein was deposed. He is also the first non-Arab president of Iraq, since he is a Kurd in accordance with the New Iraqi Constitution. After the election on 2010 March 7, Talabani remained president.
What battle did Saladin give his horse to Richard the lionheart during the third crusade?
The Battle of Jaffa.
Saladin saw Richard fighting on foot and sent a horse as a replacement for his that was killed by arrows.
