A Kurdish people | Kurdish Kurdistan Workers ' Party | PKK guerrilla in Iraqi Kurdistan as part of the Kurdish – Turkish conflict.

* 1988 – Halabja poison gas attack: The Kurdish town of Halabjah in Iraq is attacked with a mix of poison gas and nerve agents on the orders of Saddam Hussein, killing 5000 people and injuring about 10000 people.

The traditional homeland of the Kurdish people extends between northern Iraq, southeastern Turkey, and western Iran.

Category: Iraqi Kurdish people

Kurdistan is a historical region primarily inhabited by the Kurdish people of the middle east.

The Al-Anfal Campaign was a genocidal campaign against the Kurdish people ( and many others ) in Iraqi Kurdistan led by the Iraqi government of Saddam Hussein and headed by Ali Hassan al-Majid.

These actions by the TAF had resulted by the mid-1990s in more than 3, 000 Kurdish villages being deserted while according to official figures 378, 335 Kurdish people had been displaced and rendered homeless.

Today, one can find Berbers of Tamazgha ( North Africa ), Māori of New Zealand, Hausa people of Northern Nigeria, Kurdish people in East-Turkey and Atayal of Taiwan with facial tattoos.

The Baloch people mainly speak Balochi, which is a branch of the Iranian languages, and more specifically of the Northwestern Iranian languages, that is Kurdish and other Iranic languages of the region.

Mustafa was the leader of an independent socialist movement that adopted Kurdish nationalism called " Komeley Renjderan ," some two months after the collapse of the Kurdish rebellion of 1974 – 1975 created a moment of profound crisis for the Kurdish people in Iraqi Kurdistan, the organization's aim was to revitalize resistance and to rebuild and redirect Kurdish society along modern and democratic lines.

The Patriotic Union of Kurdistan works for self-determination, human rights, democracy and peace for the Kurdish people of Kurdistan and Iraq.

Furious debates and campaigning followed, but Ahmad's and Talabani's arguments could not dislodge Mulla Mustafa's position as the popular figurehead of the Kurdish people.

Category: Turkish Kurdish people

Category: Turkish people of Kurdish descent

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* The Kurdish people

* Kurdistan, the land of the Kurdish people which includes:

However, in Kurdish, writing the vowels is mandatory, and full letters are used, so the script is a true alphabet.

Kurdish, with 15 %, constitute a major community in southeastern Anatolia, and are the largest ethnic minority.

The results of the tender, which was broadcast live on Iraqi television, are as follows for all major fields awarded but excluding the Kurdish controlled areas where Production Sharing Contracts have been awarded which are currently being disputed by the Baghdad government.

* 1992 – An Iranian Kurdish leader and his two joiners are assassinated by political militants in Berlin, Germany.

There are Kurdish self-determination movements in each of the 4 states.

* September 17 – Two Kurdish opposition leaders are assassinated by the Iranian Kazem Darabi and the Lebanese Abbas Rhayel.

* Following the death of Saladin, the lands of the Kurdish Ayyubid dynasty of Egypt and Syria are split among his descendants.

Kurdish is not a unified standard language but a discursive construct of languages spoken by ethnic Kurds, referring to a group of speech varieties that are not necessarily mutually intelligible unless there has been considerable prior contact between their speakers.

Other Kurdish satellite televisions are available in the Middle East and Europe.

According to Encyclopaedia of Islam, although Kurdish is not a unified language, its many dialects are interrelated and at the same time distinguishable from other western Iranian languages.

European scholars have maintained that Gorani is separate from Kurdish and that Kurdish is synonymous with the Kurmanji-language group, while ethnic Kurds maintain that Kurdish encompasses any of the unique languages or dialects spoken by Kurds and that are not spoken by neighboring ethnic groups.

An interesting feature of tables play in some Arab countries is that Persian or Kurdish numbers, rather than Arabic ones, are called out by a player announcing his dice rolls.

By evening there are some restaurants, including Malaysian, Greek, Indian, Kurdish, Turkish, Chinese, Thai, Lebanese, and continental as well as smaller cafés catering to all budgets.

In Iraq however, triple language programmes are, like in Lebanon and Syria, normal, except rather than using French, Kurdish is taught alongside Arabic and English due to Iraq's considerably sized Kurdish minority in the north, and bilingual official language policy regarding Kurdish.

The main languages spoken are Arabic, Neo-Aramaic, Kurdish, South Azeri, Shabaki, and Armenian.

Since no real census has been taken for decades, the election results are the only indicator of the province's ethnic distribution, although it should be noted that many Assyrians and Yazidis claim that ballot papers were denied them, and in addition, many members of ethnic groups voted for mainstream parties, or ethnic parties that were attached to mainstream Arab or Kurdish led parties.

Nevertheless they are made up of a combination of Iraqi-Iranian, Gilaki, Kurdish, Mazandarani, Azeri groups.

The earliest known Kurdish dynasties under Islamic rule ( 10th to 12th centuries ) are the Hasanwayhids, the Marwanids, the Shaddadids, followed by the Ayyubid dynasty founded by Saladin.

Even though there are no records of the Kurdish language prior to the 13th century, the presence of Armenian loanwords indicates that there must have been Kurdish-Armenian contacts by at least 1100 CE.

The Shaddadids of the Caucasus and Armenia, the Rawadids of Azerbaijan, the Marwandis of eastern Anatolia, the Hasanwayhids, Fadhilwayhids, and Ayyarids of the central Zagros are some of the these Kurdish dynasties.

The majority of Kurdish villages, however, remained intact in early 1988.

It is the cultural center of the area's Kurdish majority.

Such a census, according to Kurds would surely have shown a solid Kurdish majority in the city of Kirkuk and the surrounding oilfields, as well as in the secondary oil-bearing Kurdish area of Khanaqin, south of the Kurdish city of Sulaymaniyah ( Kurdish: Sîlemanî ).

The majority of Syria's population in the 12th century consisted of Sunni Muslims, typically from Arab or Kurdish backgrounds.

The Shia United Iraqi Alliance obtained a majority, followed by the Kurdish Alliance ; Sunnis largely boycotted.

The absolute majority of the residents in the southern part of the province ( Abdanan, Darreshahr, Badreh, Dehloran and Mehran ) are Kurds and speak Kurdish.

The vast majority of Kurdish Jews, who were primarily concentrated in northern Iraq, left Kurdistan in the mass aliyah ( emigration to Israel ) of 1950-51.

The United States supplied the majority of the invading forces, but also received support from Kurdish irregulars in Iraqi Kurdistan.

The agreement included a pledge from the Kurds to stop their rebellion, and in exchange the regime would allow the establishment of a Kurdish autonomous region in areas where the Kurds were a majority.

Despite the differences in grammar and vocabulary between the Gorani language and Kurmanji, a language spoken by the majority of Kurds, Britannica classifies Gorani as a subdialect of Kurdish language.

Aside from its Rhenish-Westphalian majority population, Mettman has substantial Turkish / Kurdish, West / East Prussian, Silesian, Polish, Greek, Croatian, Serbian, Albanian, Bosnian and Lebanese communities.

It is alleged that most guardsmen were drawn from the Shia majority in Southern Iraq or the Kurdish majority in northern Iraq, rather than from the Sunni area which they were ordered to attack.

Two parties supported by the majority Shi ' a ( or Shiite ) Muslim community between them won a majority of seats, while parties representing the Kurdish community will also be strongly represented.

Areas with mixed populations saw the vast majority of voters back Shi ' ite or Kurdish parties.

The ethnic composition of Asadabad, similar to other cities in Hamadan province is of mixed ethnic groups, with Persian majority and Kurdish, Azeri, Lur and Lak minorities.

The majority of Deiries ( from Deir ez-Zor ) are Arabs, most of them are farmers from Jazira and urbanised bedouins of the Syrian Desert, with few Kurdish, Armenian and Assyrian / Syriac families.

The language spoken by the majority of people is Kermanshahi Kurdish and Kermanshahi Persian.

Despite making the vast majority, almost all Sunni Arabs boycotted the election, leading to the Kurdish party winning almost all of the seats.

The overwhelming majority of Jews speak Persian as their mother language, and a tiny minority, Kurdish.