कुर्द लोग
Also known as Kurdish people, Kurd
Kurds (), or the Kurdish people, are an Iranian ethnic group from West Asia. They are indigenous to Kurdistan, which is a geographic region spanning southeastern Turkey, northwestern Iran, northern Iraq, and northeastern Syria. Consisting of 30–45 million people, the global Kurdish population is largely concentrated in Kurdistan, but significant communities of the Kurdish diaspora exist in parts of West Asia beyond Kurdistan and in parts of Europe, most notably including: Turkey's Central Anatolian Kurds (these spread through Eastern Anatolia in 1923 following the Armenian genocide in what was
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The Kurds are an Iranian ethnic group of 30–45 million people whose homeland, Kurdistan, spans parts of southeastern Turkey, northwestern Iran, northern Iraq, and northeastern Syria. They matter because they represent a significant population in West Asia without their own independent nation-state, which has made their political status and rights a persistent regional issue.
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- ku
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- Flag of Kurdistan
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- 30–35 million(Washington Kurdish Institute, 2024 estimate)30–40 million(The World Factbook, 2015 estimate)36.4–45.6 million(Kurdish Institute of Paris, 2017 estimate)
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- Turkey
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- Iran
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- Iraq
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- Syria
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