What are Turkish Kurds?

Posted on July 5, 2021
by Yunus Cook
July 5, 2021
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What are Turkish Kurds?

Kurds in Turkey refers to people born in or residing in Turkey who are of Kurdish origin. The Kurds are the largest ethnic minority in Turkey. According to various estimates, they compose between 15% and 20% of the population of Turkey. Many people who spoke, published, or sang in Kurdish were arrested and imprisoned.

Which parts of Turkey are Kurdish?

Southeastern Turkey (Northern Kurdistan) is considered to be one of the four parts of Kurdistan, which also includes parts of northern Syria (Western Kurdistan), northern Iraq (Southern Kurdistan) and northwestern Iran (Eastern Kurdistan).

When did Kurds arrive in Anatolia?

1,000 B.C.
Kurdish tribes have lived in Anatolia since at least 1,000 B.C., twenty centuries before the first Turks arrived there. Ancient historians described them as a people not to be trifled with.

Is Sivas Kurdish?

Also in Turkey the Kurdish settlement area comprises the 23 vilayets (departments) of eastern and south-eastern Anatolia and the Kurdish districts of Sivas and Marash covering an area of about 230,000 square kilometers. So in 2016 there are about 12.2 million Kurds still living in Kurdistan in Turkey.

Is Kurdish a dying language?

The area where these regions meet is known by Kurds as Greater Kurdistan. Almost half of the world’s languages are considered endangered, according to UNESCO, including the Kurdish dialects of Hawrami in Iraq and Iran and Zazaki in Turkey.

Who are the Kurds in the Turkish War?

Kurdistan Communities Union (KCK) PKK HPG YJA-STAR YDG-H: YPS YPS-Jin PYD YPG YPG International YPJ Anti-Terror Units PJAK YRK HPJ Sinjar Alliance Êzîdxan Women’s Units Sinjar Resistance Units HBDH DKP MKP-HKO-PHG MLKP THKP-C/MLSPB-DC TKEP/L DK(until 2017)[note 1] International Freedom Battalion TAK Support (incl. alleged by Turkey):

Who are the Kurdistan Freedom Hawks in Turkey?

The Kurdistan Freedom Hawks or TAK ( Kurdish: Teyrêbazên Azadiya Kurdistan ‎), is a Kurdish nationalist militant group in Turkey seeking an independent Kurdish state in Turkish Kurdistan (eastern and southeastern Turkey ). The group also opposes the Turkish government’s policies towards Kurds in Turkey .

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How many Kurds live in the Middle East?

Approximately thirty million Kurds live in the Middle East—primarily in Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey—and the Kurds comprise nearly one-fifth of Turkey’s population of seventy-nine million.