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9 unusual facts about Kurdish People


Diwan-khane

In tribal Middle Eastern, Arab, Persian, and Kurdish societies, a guest house of the tribal chieftain is used mostly for discussing tribal affairs.

Habib Akdaş

Habib Akdaş was a Turkish citizen born in Batman, a predominantly Kurdish town in Turkey.

Hywel Williams

On 1 September 2007 Williams visited the Kurdish Cultural Festival in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, where he spoke of the importance of the maintenance of the Kurdish language.

Jalal ad-Din Mingburnu

He was murdered in 1231 in Diyarbakir by a Kurdish assassin hired by the Seljuks or possibly by Kurdish highwaymen.

Mest ondt

"Mest ondt" is a Danish language hit song by Burhan G, a Danish pop singer, songwriter and producer of Kurdish origin, featuring Danish-Chilean singer Medina.

Ravensthorpe, West Yorkshire

More recently, there has been a large immigration of Iraqi-Kurds, Hungarians and Romas (Gypsies) into the area.

Taaeb

Imam Taeb Ahmed Muhammad Hasan Husien Ismael (1898 - 1977. Also spelled as Taaeb) was a Kurdish religious figure of the early 1920s to the mid-1970s.

Tættere på himlen

"Tættere på himlen" is a Danish language hit song by Burhan G, a Danish pop singer, songwriter and producer of Kurdish/Turkish origin, featuring Danish duo Nik & Jay.

Vera Beaudin Saeedpour

Vera Beaudin Saeedpour (pronounced sah-EED-por; March 27, 1930 – May 30, 2010) was an American researcher and scholar who specialized in the study of Kurdish people.


2002 in Iraq

Once on the ground, they prepared for the subsequent arrival of US Army Special Forces to organize the Kurdish Peshmerga.

Ahmed Barzani

The first of the major Barzani revolts took place in 1931 after Barzani, one of the most prominent Kurdish leaders in Northern Iraq, and succeeded in defeating a number of other Kurdish tribes.

American Herro

The documentary covers Herro's early childhood as a Kurdish-Muslim refugee from Iraq as she fled with her family from Iraqi Kurdistan while under Saddam Hussein's regime to Minot, North Dakota, as well as her academic success and successful career as a diplomat stationed in Bosnia, Turkey, Iraq, and elsewhere.

Annazids

During the campaign, the Kurdish governor of Hamadan fled, and Abul-Shawk retreated from Dinawar to Kermanshah and then to the citadel of Sirwan.

The Annazid or Banu Annaz or Al-Anazis (990–1116), were a Kurdish dynasty that ruled a territory on the present-day Iran-Iraq frontier that included Kermanshah, Ilam, Hulwan, Dinawar (all in western Iran), Sharazour, Daquq, Daskara, Bandanijin(Mandali), and No'maniya (in south-eastern Iraq).

Assyrians in the United Kingdom

Following the Invasion of Iraq in 2003, more Assyrians fled to the UK in the face of increased religious and ethnic persecution from Arab Islamists and Kurdish Nationalists, including bombing of churches, random killings, violent harassment and kidnappings.

Awena

Awena is a weekly independent Kurdish newspaper, published every Tuesday in Sulaymaniyah, Iraqi Kurdistan .

Chechen people

Much like other highlanders such as Scots, Kurds and Albanians, a large majority of the nation's national heroes fought for independence (or otherwise, like the legendary Zelimkhan, robbed from the nation deemed the oppressor in order to feed Chechen children in a Robin Hood-like fashion).

Evdile Koçer

Evdile Koçer (born 1977 in the province of Siirt, Turkey), is a Kurdish writer.

Jean Baptiste Kléber

Shortly after these victories, a Kurdish muslim student, Soleyman El-Halaby, living in Egypt, knifed Kléber while walking in the garden of the palace of Alfi bik.

Mattityahu Peled

For what turned out to be his last work of translation—"The Sages of Darkness" by the Syrian-Kurdish writer Salim Barakat—Peled won the Translators' Association Prize.

Nadir Nadirov

Nadir Nadirov, (1932; Sadarak, Nakhichevan ASSR), is a Kurdish academic and scientist from Kazakhstan.

Nationality

This meaning of nationality is not defined by political borders or passport ownership and includes nations that lack an independent state (such as the Scots, Welsh, English, Basques, Kurds, Tamils, Hmong, Inuit and Māori).

Pervin Buldan

Pervin Buldan ( 6 November 1967, Hakkâri Province, Turkey) is a Turkish politician of Kurdish origin.

Sassoon family

The family name of Sassoon, is also commonly shared by many Armenian and Kurdish families and tribes who all originate from the mountainous district of Sason (whence the family and tribal names), west of Lake Van, in upper Mesopotamia, in modern Turkey.


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Taner Akyol

Maria Farantouri sings in Greek translation poems of the persecution suffered by the Kurdish people.