Kurds
Kurds (Kurdish: کورد ,Kurd) or Kurdish people are an Iranic ethnic group native to a mountainous region of Western Asia known as Kurdistan, which spans southeastern Turkey, northwestern Iran, northern Iraq, and northern Syria. There are exclaves of Kurds in Central Anatolia, Khorasan, and the Caucasus, as well as significant Kurdish diaspora communities in the cities of western Turkey (in particular Istanbul) and Western Europe (primarily in Germany). The Kurdish population is estimated to be between 30 and 45 million.Kurds speak the Kurdish languages and the Zaza–Gorani languages, which belong to the Western Iranian branch of the Iranian languages in …
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CGAI: Canadian Global Affairs Institute · 1 March 2024 English
Table of Contents Introduction Can China Act Rationally Regarding Taiwan? Attitudes in Taiwan Are Hardening Taiwan is a Genuine Democracy Can Taiwan Defend Itself? What Are the Projected Costs in …
Carter, Ash. 2019. “Donald Trump’s Betrayal of the Kurds is a Blow to America’s Credibility.” The Economist … com/leaders/2019/10/17/donald-trumps-betrayal-of- the-kurds-is-a-blow-to-americas-credibility. Chiang, Chin-yeh … Richard Soikolsky. 2019. “Trump’s Betrayal of the Kurds? U.S. Allies Will Get Over It, and Soon.” Carnegie … https://carnegieendowment.org/2019/10/23/trump-s-betrayal-of-kurds-u.s.-allies-will-get-over-it-and-soon- pub-80166 … abandoning Taiwan the way he did the Kurds in 2019. On his betrayal of the Kurds see, among others, Carter (2019) …
Wilson Center Canada · 7 February 2024
This analysis will Displacement and individual experiences are explore number of dimensions to the impact key factors contributing to vulnerability to en- of climate change, and in particular, the issue …
governmental infrastructure and Shia Arabs, Shia and Sunni Kurds, Turkman, and services. as well as small populations …
Wilson Center Canada · 14 January 2024
There is indeed an increasing created social, economic, and financial vulnera- consensus that climate change in the region bility and fragility susceptible to external shocks acts as a “threat multiplier” …
governmental infrastructure and Shia Arabs, Shia and Sunni Kurds, Turkman, and services. as well as small populations …
Wilson Center Canada · 6 December 2023
The plex cross boundary water policies of neighbor- crisis is here, and is not one of the future, it is a ing countries, and outdated irrigation canals and crisis of …
governmental infrastructure and Shia Arabs, Shia and Sunni Kurds, Turkman, and services. as well as small populations …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 February 2023 English
for Kurdish nationalists to move toward outright independence. Despite the recent visibility of the Kurds in the international media, little is known about their political aspirations as citizens of an autonomous … Kosovo, has not declared independence. In rebuilding Iraq and fighting against the Islamic State, the Kurds have cultivated important political alliances with the US and Europe, which have garnered them international … independence runs counter to the prevailing narratives about the Kurds in the Middle East. Hassan draws not only on the history of the Kurds but also on first-hand interviews with high-ranking officials, …
(Iraq)—History—Autonomy and independence movements. | LCSH: Kurds—Iraq— Politics and government—21st century. | LCSH: … promised that he would deliver independence to the Kurds of Iraq – that the time had come to estab- lish … lish a Kurdish state. For over a century, Kurds in Iraq have been dreaming of the day an independent Kurdish … over a century. Since the end of World War I, the Kurds have been subjected to political and cultural oppression … This is particularly evident in the case of the Kurds in Iraq. In response to Kurdish nationalism, successive …
DDN: Dundurn Press · 7 February 2023 English
After Jack Letts went to Syria as an idealistic 18-year-old, his parents faced a savaging from the tabloid press. They sent him a small amount of money to try to …
day. It was then we learned that initially the Kurds had treated him well,offering him cigarettes and …
Wilson Center Canada · 5 December 2022 English
The second section turns to the format of the ACRS Working Group, shedding light on the role of its co-chairs and the Steering Group of the multilateral track. [...] Baker …
(after having used them against Iran and Iraqi Kurds during the Iran-Iraq War), heightened regional proliferation …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 February 2022 English
Legal precarity, mobility, and the criminalization of migrants complicate the study of forced migration and exile. Traditional methodologies can obscure both the agency of displaced people and hierarchies of power …
Figure 1.1 Research assistant 1. Arabs, and Kurds, Muslims and Christians, and people with very different …
RCIS: Ryerson Centre for Immigration and Settlement · 16 June 2021 English
As part of its commitment to engage in the publication and promotion of immigration and settlement research by Ryerson faculty members, over the 2020-2021 year, RCIS published 29 publications, including …
ethnic and religious backgrounds such as Turks, Kurds, Sunni Muslims, Alevi Muslims, in Canada’s officially …
RCIS: Ryerson Centre for Immigration and Settlement · 16 June 2021 English
As part of its commitment to engage in the publication and promotion of immigration and settlement research by Ryerson faculty members, over the 2020-2021 year, RCIS published 29 publications, including …
ethnic and religious backgrounds such as Turks, Kurds, Sunni Muslims, Alevi Muslims, in Canada’s officially …
