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Kurdish (Kurdî, کوردی, pronounced [kʊrdiː] ) is a Northwestern Iranian language or group of languages spoken by Kurds in the region of Kurdistan, namely...

Kurdish in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Kurdish may refer to: Kurdish people (Kurds) Kurdish language Northern Kurdish (Kurmanji) Central Kurdish...

Kurds (Kurdish: کورد, romanized: Kurd), or the Kurdish people, are an Iranic ethnic group from West Asia. They are indigenous to Kurdistan, which is a...

Kurdistan (Kurdish: کوردستان, lit. 'land of the Kurds'; [ˌkʊɾdɪˈstɑːn] ), or Greater Kurdistan, is a roughly defined geo-cultural region and stateless...

Kurdish nationalist uprisings have periodically occurred in Turkey, beginning with the Turkish War of Independence and the consequent transition from...

Kurdish nationalism (Kurdish: کوردایەتی, romanized: Kurdayetî, lit. 'Kurdishness or Kurdism') is a nationalist political movement which asserts that Kurds...

In late July 2015, the third phase of the Kurdish–Turkish conflict between various Kurdish insurgent groups and the Turkish government erupted, following...

The 2026 Kurdish–Iranian crisis refers to a period of intensified political and armed activity by Kurds in Iran, and parties representing them, to achieve...

Central Kurdish, also known as Sorani Kurdish, is a Kurdish language variety spoken in Iraq, mainly in Iraqi Kurdistan, as well as the Iranian provinces...

Kurdish–Iranian conflict or the Kurdish separatism in Iran is an ongoing separatist dispute between the Kurdish opposition in Western Iran and the governments...

The Kurdish mafia (Kurdish: مافیای کورد, romanized: Mafyayê kurd) are organised crime groups run by ethnic Kurds. Outside of Kurdistan, the mafia spread...

Rawa Majid (Sorani Kurdish: ڕەوا مەجید; born 12 July 1986), known as the Kurdish Fox (Swedish: Kurdiska räven), is an Iraqi Kurdish-Swedish criminal. Since...

Workers' Party (PKK) is a Kurdish militant political organization and armed guerrilla group primarily based in the mountainous Kurdish-majority regions of southeastern...

The Iraqi–Kurdish conflict consists of a series of wars, rebellions and disputes between the Kurds and the central authority of Iraq starting in the 20th...

Workers' Party (PKK) (Kurdish: Partiya Karkerên Kurdistanê) as well as its allied insurgent groups, both Kurdish and non-Kurdish. The initial core demand...

The Kurdish National Council in Syria (KNCS, Kurdish: ئەنجومەنی نیشتمانیی کورد لە سووریا, romanized: Encûmena Niştimanî ya Kurdî li Sûriyê, ENKS; Arabic:...

Kurdish cuisine consists of a wide variety of foods prepared by the Kurdish people. There are culinary and cultural similarities of Kurds and their neighbours...

Kurdish Christians refers to Kurds who follow Christianity. Some Kurds had historically followed Christianity and remained Christian when most Kurds were...

Kurmanji (Kurdish: کورمانجی, romanized: Kurmancî, lit. 'Kurdish', pronunciation), also termed Northern Kurdish, is the northernmost of the Kurdish languages...

Kurdish Alevism (Kurdish: Rêya Heqî, lit. 'The Path of God/Truth' or Elewîtî) refers to the unique rituals, sacred place practices, mythological discourses...

The Kurdish Mastiff, Assyrian Shepherd, or Pişder dog (Kurdish: سەگی پشدەری, romanized: Segî Pişderî) is a dog landrace native to the mountainous Kurdistan...

Kurdish is most commonly written using either of two alphabets: the Latin-based Bedirxan or Hawar alphabet, introduced by Celadet Alî Bedirxan in 1932...

the Turkish government, though "Kurdish" was allowed in census reports. Following the military coup of 1980, the Kurdish languages were officially prohibited...

The Peshmerga (Kurdish: پێشمەرگه, romanized: Pêşmerge, lit. ''Those Who Face Death'') are the internal security forces of the Kurdistan Region. According...

Kurdish coffee (Kurdish: (قاوەی کوردی) Qehweya Kurdî or Qehweya Kezwanan or qazwan in Iraqi Kurdistan) or menengiç coffee (Turkish: menengiç kahvesi)...

Southern Kurdish, also known by its endonym Xwarîn, is a Kurdish language variety, spoken predominantly in northeastern Iraq and western Iran. The Southern...

Kurdish culture is a group of distinctive cultural traits practiced by Kurdish people. The Kurdish culture is a legacy from ancient peoples who shaped...

The Kurdish population is estimated to be between 30 and 45 million. Most Kurdish people live in Kurdistan, which today is split between Iranian Kurdistan...

Kurdish women (Kurdish: ژنانی کورد, romanized: Jinên Kurd) are women of Kurdish ethnicity, who are densely spread between four countries in West Asia...

Kurdish tribes are tribes of Kurdish people, an Iranian ethnic group from the geo-cultural region of Kurdistan in Western Asia. The tribes are socio-political...

semi-autonomous federal region of the Republic of Iraq. It comprises four Kurdish-majority governorates of Arab-majority Iraq: Erbil Governorate, Sulaymaniyah...

The romanization of Kurdish language is the practice of transcribing the Kurdish, traditionally written in both Arabic and Latin scripts, into a standardized...

The Kurdish population of Syria is the country's largest ethnic minority, usually estimated at 10% of the Syrian population and 9% of the Kurdish population...

Kurdish PEN or the Kurdish Centre of the International PEN (Navenda PEN a Kurd in Kurdish) is a branch of International PEN. It was suggested by Kurdish...

timeline of the Turkish-Kurdish conflict. The Kurdish insurgency is an armed conflict between the Republic of Turkey and various Kurdish insurgent groups, which...

Kurdish grammar has many inflections, with prefixes and suffixes added to roots to express grammatical relations and to form words. Among all modern Iranian...

Kurdish Hezbollah (Kurdish: حیزبوڵڵای کورد, romanized: Hizbullahî Kurdî, Turkish: Kürt Hizbullahı), also known as Hizbullah or Turkish Hezbollah, is a...

Kurdish literature (ئەدەبی کوردی) is literature written in the Kurdish languages. Literary Kurdish works have been written in several Kurdish varieties...

Kurdish cinema (Kurdish: سینەمای کوردی, romanized: Sînemay Kurdî) focuses on the Kurdish people and culture. The fate of the Kurds as a people without...

Anti-Kurdish sentiment, also known as anti-Kurdism or Kurdophobia, is hostility, fear, intolerance or racism against Kurds, Kurdistan, Kurdish culture...

Central Kurdish variety Sorani is mainly written using an Arabic alphabet with 33 letters. Unlike the regular Arabic script, which is an abjad, Kurdish Arabic...

Kurdish mythology (Kurdish: ئەفسانەی کوردی / Efsaneya Kurdî) is the collective term for the beliefs and practices of the culturally, ethnically or linguistically...

Kurdish maqam (Kurdish: مەقامی کوردی, romanized: Meqamî Kurdî, Kurdish pronunciation: [ma.qaːˈmiː ˈkuɾ.diː]) is a traditional melodic system used in Kurdish...

The Anfal campaign, also known as the Kurdish genocide, was a counterinsurgency operation, described by many scholars and human rights groups as a genocide...

The Kurdish Sun, also commonly referred to by its Kurdish name: Kurdish: ڕۆژ, romanized: Roj, is a burning golden sun and the national emblem of the Kurds...

the Syrian transitional government launched an offensive against the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in the territories of the Democratic...

The Kurdish emirates, Kurdish chiefdoms or Kurdish principalities (Sorani Kurdish: میرنشینە کوردییەکان) were various semi-independent entities which existed...

Kurdish theatre is theatre including Kurdish themes and or the Kurdish language. Early figures in supporting the Kurdish theatre can be seen in Mehdi Zana...

The Kurdish Front (Arabic: جبهة الأكراد, transliterated: Jabhat al-Akrād; Kurdish: Eniya Kurdan, former full name: لواء جبهة الأكراد لنصرة شعبنا السوري...

Iraqi Kurdistan or Southern Kurdistan (Kurdish: باشووری کوردستان, romanized: Başûrê Kurdistanê) refers to the Kurdish-populated part of northern Iraq. It...

The Kurdish horse (Kurdish: ئەسپی کورد, romanized: Espî Kurd) or the Kurd horse, is the traditional horse breed of the Kurds. The horse is native to Greater...

The Kurdish-Kurdish dialogue describes efforts to strengthen relations and cooperation between the various Kurdish parties. Kurds live in many countries...

Kurdish anthems (Kurdish: سروودە کوردییەکان, romanized: Sirûde Kurdîyekan, or سروودە نیشتمانییەکان) are an important form of cultural and political expression...

Kurdish dances (Kurdish: Govend, Dîlan, Dawet, Helperkê, Şayî; دیلان, گۆڤەند, داوەت, ھەڵپەڕکێ, شایی) are a group of traditional dances among Kurds. It...

Kurdish pastry,küt pastry or plain pastry, is a type of pastry derived from oily kömbe, usually made and sold in pastry shops. It is prepared with flour...

delimiters. Kurdish phonology is the sound system of the Kurdish dialect continuum. This article includes the phonology of the three Kurdish languages in...

Kurdish Muslims (Kurdish: موسڵمانی کورد, romanized: Musilmanên Kurd) are Kurds who follow Islam, which has the most common religion for the Kurds for centuries...

The First Iraqi–Kurdish War (Arabic: الحرب العراقية الكردية الأولى), also known as the September Revolution (Kurdish: شۆڕشی ئەیلوول), was an armed conflict...

Parliament. Northeastern Syria is polyethnic and home to sizeable ethnic Arab, Kurdish, and Assyrian populations, with smaller communities of ethnic Turkmen,...

The Kurdish Globe, previously known as The Hewler Globe, is the first English-language newspaper published in Erbil, Kurdistan, northern Iraq. Published...

The Kurdish calendar (Kurdish: ڕۆژژمێری کوردی, Salnameya kurdî) is a solar calendar used by Kurds to mark years, months, and seasonal cycles. The calendar...

The Kurdish Red Crescent (Kurdish: Heyva Sor a Kurdistanê) is a humanitarian nonprofit organisation legally registered as a German eingetragener Verein...

Sweden's main distributor of narcotics. Rawa Majid, also known as the Kurdish Fox, is the ringleader of the network, which now maintains direct operational...

Kurdish–Turkish relations covers the historical relations between Kurds and Turks. Relations began when Alp Arslan was seeking to pass through Kurdistan...

referred to as Kurdistan. Most Kurds speak Northern Kurdish Kurmanji Kurdish (Kurmanji) and Central Kurdish (Sorani). There are various hypotheses as to predecessor...

Kurdish Tribal Association is a Kurdish tribal grouping (of about 20 to 30 tribes), established 1991 in Iraqi Kurdistan. Iraqi Opposition v t e...

Kurdish rugs (Kurdish: فەرشی کوردی) are rugs woven by Kurds in Kurdistan. When referring to Kurdish rugs within the rug industry, one is referring to...

Iranian Kurdistan and Eastern Kurdistan (Kurdish: ڕۆژھەڵاتی کوردستان, romanized: Rojhilatê Kurdistanê), also called Rojhelat, are unofficial names for...

in the United States (Sorani Kurdish: کوردانی ئەمریکا) refers to people born in or residing in the United States of Kurdish origin or those considered to...

Kurdish Shahnameh or Kurdish Shanama (Sorani Kurdish: شانامەی کوردی) is a collection of epic poems that has been passed from mouth to mouth, as part of...

two Kurdish editions of Wikipedia (Kurmanji Kurdish: Wîkîpediya kurdî, Sorani Kurdish: ویکیپیدیای کوردی), one written in Kurmanji (Northern Kurdish) and...

software "Kurdish Swede creates first Kurdish search engine". Bas News. Archived from the original on 2014-01-02. Retrieved 1 January 2014. "First Kurdish Search...

Kurdish traditional clothing, also known as Kurdish dress (Kurdish: جلوبەرگی کوردی, Cil û bergên kurdî), refers to the folk costumes of the Kurdish people...

The Second Iraqi–Kurdish War was the second chapter of the Barzani rebellion, initiated by the collapse of the Kurdish autonomy talks and the consequent...

Kurdish tanbur (Kurdish: ته‌مبوور, romanized: Tembûr) or tanbour a fretted string instrument, is an initial and main form of the tanbūr instrument family...

Kurdish Mafia, also sometimes called 47Kurdish Mafia or just 47, is a street gang founded and based in Finland in 2019. Members of Kurdish Mafia have been...

Kurdish state may refer to: The Kurdish state (1918–1919), a historical polity in southern Kurdistan. A hypothetical state spanning all of Kurdistan....

the second largest ethnic group of Iraq. They traditionally speak the Kurdish languages of Sorani, Kurmanji, Feyli, and Gorani. Historically, Kurds in...

The nationalist movement ( also known as the Pan-Kurdism ) among the Kurdish people first emerged in the late 19th century with an uprising in 1880 led...

Kurdish creation myths refer to beliefs in many mythologies regarding how the Kurds began as a nation. In Islam, Noah’s Ark landed on Judi Mountain. Kurdish...

People's Defense Units, Kurdish abbreviation YPG, also called People's Protection Units, is a libertarian socialist Kurdish militant group in Syria and...

The Kurdistan Democratic Party (Kurdish: پارتی دیموکراتی کوردستان, romanized: Partiya Demokrat a Kurdistanê), usually abbreviated as KDP or PDK, is the...

fighting erupted between the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) and Islamist rebel factions in the city of Ras al-Ayn. Kurdish forces launched a campaign...

The problem of Kurdish refugees and displaced people arose in the 20th century in West Asia, and continues today. The Kurds, are an ethnic group mostly...

"Kurdish melodies" (Armenian: Քրդական եղանակներ, romanized: K'rdakan yeghanakner, lit. 'Kurdish melodies', Kurdish: Awazên Kurdî) is a collection of Kurdish...

massacre of Kurdish residents of Turkey during the Ararat rebellion, in which 5,000 to 47,000 were killed.[citation needed] The use of Kurdish language,...

The 1979 Kurdish rebellion in Iran was one of the largest nationwide uprisings in the country against the new state following the Iranian Revolution....

Amed Sportif Faaliyetler Kulübü (Kurmanji Kurdish: Klûba Çalakiyên Sporê ya Amedê, 'Amed Sports Activities Club'), commonly known as Amedspor, is a sports...

Iraqi Kurdish Civil War (Kurdish: شەڕی براکوژی, romanized: Şerî birakujî, lit. 'fratricidal war') was a civil war that took place between rival Kurdish factions...

civil war that began in 2011, a Kurdish-dominated coalition led by the Democratic Union Party as well as some other Kurdish, Arab, Assyrian, and Turkmen...

Free Life Party, or PJAK (Kurdish: پارتی ژیانی ئازادی کوردستان, romanized: Partiya Jiyana Azad a Kurdistanê), is an armed Kurdish militant group. It has...

The 2017 Iraqi–Kurdish conflict, also known as the Kirkuk crisis, was a conflict in which the Iraqi government retook disputed territories in Iraq which...

Kurdish-Islamic synthesis, or Kurdish-Islamic nationalism (Sorani: کوردایەتیی ئیسلامی; Kurmanji: Kurdayetîya Îslamî), is a form of Kurdish nationalism...

Kurdish Canadians refers to people of Kurdish origin who are born in or living in Canada. The Kurdish community in Canada is 16,315 based on the 2016...

The Kurdish mujahideen (Kurdish: Mucahidîn Kurd) is a term used for Kurdish Islamists who fought the Ba'athist Iraqi government. During the Iran–Iraq...

The Kurdish Academy (Kurdish: ئەکادیمیای کوردی, romanized: Ekadîmiyay Kurdî) is an institution mandated by the Kurdistan Regional Government, dealing with...

Sorani is a Central Kurdish dialect. Sorani Kurdish is often written with the Arabic alphabet, and has eight vowels: î[i], û[u], i[I], u[ʊ], ê[e], o[o]...

providing ground support and supplies to the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a Kurdish-dominated coalition led by the People's Defense Units (YPG). In 2016, Turkey...

Kurds in Iran (Kurdish: کورد لە ئێران, romanized: Kurdên Îranê, Persian: کردها در ایران) constitute a large minority in the country with a population...

The Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (PDKI; Kurdish: حیزبی دێموکراتی کوردستانی ئێران, romanized: Hizbi Dêmukrati Kurdıstani Êran, HDKA; Persian:...

A Kurdish castle is a castle which was built by Kurds or built under a Kurdish state (this includes castles in which the builders were most likely Kurds)...

The oldest known examples of Kurdish art and expression have been found in Neolithic sites like Çayönü and Jarmo (present-day Iraqi and Turkish Kurdistan);...

representatives were LGBTI. However, not all pro-Kurdish parties support the LGBTI, as seen in the Newroz clashes. The Kurdish nationalist and Islamist party known...

Armenian–Kurdish relations covers the historical relations between the Kurds and the Armenians. Ancient Corduene, which partially corresponds geographically...

also known as the Ayyubid Sultanate, was a Sunni Muslim dynasty of Kurdish origin that founded the medieval Sultanate of Egypt, which was established...

This is an incomplete list of Kurdish uprisings. You can help by expanding it. A Modern History of the Kurds by David McDowall Yezidi Rebellion Muslim...

The 1983–1986 Kurdish rebellions in Iraq occurred during the Iran–Iraq War as PUK and KDP Kurdish militias of Iraqi Kurdistan rebelled against Saddam...

The Kurdish Hezbollah insurgency was a period of assassinations, armed clashes, kidnappings, and other assaults led by the Kurdish Hezbollah between the...

The Kurdish state was an autonomous government in Southern Kurdistan that existed from October 1918 to June 1919. Though it was initially subordinate...

Kurdish music (Kurdish: میوزیکی کوردی, romanized: Mûzîkî Kurdî, or مۆسیقای کوردی) refers to music performed in the Kurdish languages and Zaza-Gorani languages...

Carolina), the Kurdish American Congressional Caucus is a bipartisan Congressional committee focusing on US-Kurdish relations, understanding Kurdish culture...

Kurdish musical instruments (Kurdish: ئامێرە میوزیکییە کوردییەکان, romanized: Amêre mîwzîkiye Kurdiyekan) are traditional instruments used in the music...

Sedentarization of Kurdish tribes was a policy pursued by the Ottoman Empire as early as the sixteenth century and became prominent in the nineteenth...

bloody crack-down on the 2012–2013 Iraqi protests. The Iraqi Armed Forces, Kurdish Peshmerga, Sunni insurgent and tribal groups and various Turkmen Muslim...

several Kurdish rebellions took place within the Ottoman Empire. The rebellions were preceded by the emergence of early Kurdish nationalism and Kurdish revolts...

This article is a list of Kurdish dynasties, countries, and autonomous territories. The Kurds are an Iranian people without their own nation state; they...

The first Kurdish newspaper, titled Kurdistan, was published in Cairo in 1898. Since then, many different Kurdish newspapers, magazines, and journals...

Syrian Kurdistan, also called Western Kurdistan or Rojava (from Kurdish: Rojavayê Kurdistanê, lit. 'Kurdistan where the sun sets'), is a region in northern...

The Kurdish Supreme Committee (Kurdish: Desteya Bilind a Kurd; DBK) was a self-proclaimed governing body in Northern Syria, which was founded by the Kurdish...

The Kurdish wheatear (Oenanthe xanthoprymna), also known as the Kurdistan wheatear, the chestnut-rumped wheatear or the red-rumped wheatear, is a species...

The following is a list of Kurdish poets and authors: Balool Evdilsemedê Babek (972–1019) Ali Hariri (1009–1079/80) Mele Perîşan (1356–1431) Mela Huseynê...

Kurds in Japan (Japanese: 在日クルド人, Zainichi Kurudo-jin, Kurdish: Kurdên Japonyayê, Sorani Kurdish: کوردانی ژاپۆن) refers to Kurds residing in Japan. Kurds...

This is a list of Kurdish musicians, organized by genre. Kurdish music is a diverse tradition that includes folk, classical, pop, and contemporary fusion...

The Kurdish Islamic Front (Kurdish: پێشەوەى كوردى ئیسلامی) was a small Kurdish Islamist armed group founded by Salahuddin al-Kurdi who also served as the...

affiliations, including military mutineers, Shia Islamists, Kurdish nationalists, Kurdish Islamists, and far-left groups. Following initial victories...

Kurdistan (Kurdish: کۆماری کوردستان, romanized: Komarî Kurdistan; Persian: جمهوری مهاباد, romanized: Jomhuriye Mahâbâd), was a short-lived Kurdish self-governing...

The Kurdish Republic of Lachin (Kurdish: Komara kurdî ya Laçînê; Кoмара Кӧрдийа Лачине) was a short-lived unrecognized state declared by Kurdish nationalists...

Democratic Party (Turkish: Halkların Demokratik Partisi, acronymized as HDP; Kurdish: Partiya Demokratîk a Gelan), or Democratic Party of the Peoples, was a...

The Kurdish Studies Network (KSN) is "a global research network" for scholars working within the field of Kurdish studies. It was established in 2009...

2011 Kurdish protests may refer to demonstrations by the Kurdish minority in a number of countries, concurrent with and inspired by the Arab Spring in...

The flag of Kurdistan (Kurdish: ئاڵای کوردستان, Alaya Kurdistanê), also called Ala Rengin, is the flag of Kurds and was created by the Society for the...

occurred in Iranian Kurdistan (Eastern Kurdistan or Rojhelat), targeting Kurdish provinces in Iran such as Kermanshah, Kurdistan, West Azerbaijan, Ilam...

Sivandi Laki-Kurdish Kurdish Northern Kurdish (Northern Kurmanji, Southeastern Kurmanji, Southern Kurmanji, Western Kurmanji) Central Kurdish (Mukri, Sine'i...

Kurdish Institute of Istanbul (Kurdish: Enstîtuya Kurdî Ya Stenbolê, Turkish: İstanbul Kürt Enstitüsü), founded in 1992, was an organization focusing on...

Kurdish folk music (Kurdish: میوزیکی فۆلکلۆری کوردی, romanized: Mîwzîkî folkilorî Kurdî or مۆسیقای فۆلکلۆر) is a musical tradition associated with the...

Batman (Kurdish: Êlih; Syriac: Elīḥā) is a city and capital of Batman District in Batman Province, Turkey. It lies on a plateau, 540 meters (1,772 feet)...

Gorani or Gurani (Kurdish: گۆرانی, romanized: Goranî, lit. 'song'), also known by the name of its main dialect, Hawrami (ھەورامی, romanized: Hewramî)...

The Coalition of Political Forces of Iranian Kurdistan (CPFIK; Kurdish: هاوپەیمانیی هێزە سیاسییەکانی کوردستانی ئێران, romanized: Hevpeymaniya Hêzên Siyasî...

Kurdish Women's Rights Watch (KWRW) was set up in June 2004 as a non-profit-making, non-political network of activists, academics, lawyers and journalists...

Baloch–Kurdish relations covers the historical relations between Baloch and Kurds After the spread of Islam, it was common for Baloch and Kurds, as it...

participation of their ancestors in the Armenian genocide during World War I. Some Kurdish tribes, mainly as part of the Ottoman Army,[citation needed] along with...

Kurdish political violence refers to politically motivated acts of violence committed by Kurds with the motive of achieving improved rights, self-determination...

The Kurdish Institute of Paris (French: Institut kurde de Paris; Kurdish: ئینستیتیوتی کوردیی پاریس), founded in February 1983 by (amongst others) film...

January 9th, 2013, Fidan Doğan, Sakine Cansiz and Leyla Şaylemez, three Kurdish women's activists, were assassinated in the 10th arrondissement of Paris...

The International Journal of Kurdish Studies (ISSN 1073-6697) is an academic journal published by the Kurdish Library, and was edited by Vera Beaudin Saeedpour...

Kurdish immigration into Syria refers to the successive and large-scale influx of Kurds into Syria since the disintegration of the Ottoman Empire. While...

Goran (also Gûran) (Kurdish: گۆران) is a Kurdish name commonly used for males in the geographical region of Kurdistan and by Kurdish people worldwide. The...

Empire, the Kurdish people were separated into many nation-states. While Kurds are in Iran, Turkey, and Syria, the majority of Nashville's Kurdish population...

The 1967 Kurdish revolt in Iran (Sorani Kurdish: شۆڕشی ١٩٦٧ی کورد لە ئێران) erupted in March 1967, as part of the long-running Iranian–Kurdish conflict...

The Kurdish Political Movement or the Kurdish Liberation Movement, refers to the movement that seeks to realize the political demands of Kurdish people...

have contributed to the Kurdish literature. This list is not comprehensive, but is continuously being expanded and includes Kurdish writers and poets from...

Turkish-backed Syrian National Army (SNA) and the government on one side, and the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) on the other; as well as Israeli occupation...

The International Kurdish Theater Festival is the most important theater festival in the Kurdish regions of Iran, Rojhalat, which has been held in Saqqez...

Kurdish Sign Language (ZHK, from Kurdish Zmani Hêmay Kurdi) is the deaf sign language of the Kurds of Kurdistan Region, Iraq. There are three dialects...

The Kurdish Democratic Party in Lebanon (Kurmanji Kurdish: Parti a Demoqrat a Kurdî e Lubnan, lit. 'Kurdish Democratic Party in Lebanon'; Arabic: الحزب...

Talabani (Kurdish: جەلال تاڵەبانی, romanized: Celal Talebanî, Arabic: جلال طالباني, romanized: Jalāl Ṭālabānī; 1933 – 3 October 2017) was an Iraqi Kurdish politician...

self-proclaimed Kurdish state from 1927 to 1931. It was located in the Armenian highlands, centred on Karaköse Province. "Agirî" is the Kurdish name for Ararat...

Washington Kurdish Institute (Sorani Kurdish: ئینستیتیوتی کوردیی واشینگتن) is a 501(c)(3) educational and research organization focused on Kurds. It was...

The Hazara (Kurdish: هەزارە, Hezare; Persian: هزاره), also known as Arkawazi-Boli, are a Kurdish tribe living mainly in western Iran, as well as eastern...

BoxRec. Kabayel was born in Leverkusen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany to Kurdish parents originating from the village of Ûson (Cennetpınarı) in Pazarcık...

Hawpa (Kurdish: ھاوپا, romanized: Hāwpa), is a Kurdish neo-Nazi organization based in the Kurdistan Region of northern Iraq. The party was established...

Kurdish classical music (Kurdish: میوزیکی کلاسیکی کوردی, romanized: Mîwzîkî klasîkî Kurdî, Kurdish pronunciation: [mjuːzɪkɪ klaːsɪkɪ koːrdɪ]; or مۆسیقای...

Kurdish Jews in Israel are immigrants and descendants of the immigrants of the Kurdish Jewish communities, who now reside within the state of Israel. They...

The Kurdish Democratic Unity Party in Syria (Yekiti, PYDKS or Yek-Dem) (Kurdish: پارتی یەکێتی دیموکراتی کورد لە سووریا, romanized: Partiya Yekîtiya Demokrata...

April 1948 or 1949), also known as Apo (short for Abdullah in Turkish; Kurdish for "uncle"), is a founding member of the militant Kurdistan Workers' Party...

succeeded in capturing 350 Kurdish villages and towns in the vicinity of Kobanê, generating a wave of some 300,000 Kurdish refugees, who fled across the...

The Kurdish Textile and Cultural Museum is a museum devoted to textiles and other cultural works produced in Kurdistan, especially in Iraqi Kurdistan...

Asayish (Kurdish: ئاسایش, romanized: Asayîş, lit. 'security') is the domestic security agency of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. The organization was established...

was a demographic, political and cultural engineering project promoting Kurdish immigration from Turkey and settlement in northeastern Syria by the French...

Newroz (Kurdish: نەورۆز) is the Kurdish celebration of Nowruz; the arrival of spring and new year in Kurdish culture. The lighting of the fires at the...

the state of Iraq, Kurdish language was not only formally legally permitted in Iraq under the Qassim government, but the Kurdish version of the Arabic...

Part of the Bible was first available in the Kurdish language in 1856. Modern translations of the whole Bible are available in standard Kurmanji and Sorani...

The Kurdish United Front (Kurdish: بەرەی يەکگرتووی كورد; Persian: جبهه متحد كرد; abbreviated KUF) is an ethnic political organization associated with...

or Kurdish Democratic Party in Syria, commonly known as KDPS, PDK-S or Elpartî, refers to a Kurdish Syrian political party founded in 1957 by Kurdish nationalists...

oil resources of the Kurdish regions of Iraq. Kurdish ministers resigned from the government, Kurdish employees withdrew, and Kurdish police and soldiers...

2011–2012 Kurdish protests in Turkey were protests in Turkey, led by the Peace and Democracy Party (BDP), against restrictions of Kurdish rights by of...

ethnic group in Armenia (for more on the relationship between Yazidis and Kurdish identity, see Yazidis). According to the 2022 census, around 31,079 Yazidis...

accepted to house the largest Kurdish population in any city in the world, it is often dubbed as the biggest Kurdish city. The Kurdish population in early 20th...

large Kurdish population, and Van cats have been referred to as "Kurdish cats" or the "Kurdish Van cat", and made a symbol of Kurdistan in Kurdish nationalist...

Diyarbakır is the largest Kurdish-majority city in Turkey. It is the administrative center of Diyarbakır Province. It is considered one of the oldest...

The Kurdish involvement in the Iran–Iraq War was a major part of the conflict. Kurdish political and armed groups participated in the Iran–Iraq War on...

to other parts of the world. The Babylonian ruler Nebuchadnezzar II and Kurdish Muslim leader Saladin are two important historical figures of Iraq and...

considered Kurdish by linguistic research, but are included by most Kurdish authors in maps of Kurdistan because they identify as Kurdish. Many Zaza/Dimili...

The following is a list of Kurdish Organisations. Kurdish PEN Peace Mothers Kurdish Student Academic Association Kurdish Institute of Paris Kurdistan...

Yazidis, also spelled Yezidis (/jə.ˈziː.diz/ ; Êzidî), are a Kurdish-speaking endogamous religious group indigenous to Kurdistan, a geographical region...

other ethnic groups in Northern Syria. Women have been involved in Syrian Kurdish Resistance fighting since as early as 2011, when the mixed-sex YXG was...

July 1996 in Varel and grew up in Achim, near Bremen. His parents have Kurdish and Yazidi origins. His father is from the village of Isikli (Zewra) in...

Masoud Barzani (Kurdish: مەسعوود‌ بارزانی, romanized: Mesûd Barzanî; born 16 August 1946) is a Kurdish politician who has been leader of the Kurdistan...

1926 Simko Shikak revolt (Kurdish: دووەم شۆڕشی شکاک, romanized: Diwem şořişî Simkoy Şikak) was a short-timed Kurdish uprising against the Pahlavi dynasty...

best known of Kurdish institute is the Kurdish Institute of Paris, which was established in 1983. The Kurdish Institute of Paris (Kurdish: Enstîtuya kurdî...

Ismail Agha Shikak (Kurdish: ئیسماعیل ئاغا شکاک, Îsmaîl Axayê Şikak), also known as Simko (Kurdish: سمکۆ, Simko; 1887–1930), was a Kurdish chieftain of the...

Izzeddin al-Khaznawi (Arabic: معشوق الخزنوي; Kurdish: مەعشووقی خەزنەوی, Maşûqê Xeznewî) was a Syrian Kurdish sheikh who was killed by the Ba'athist Syrian...

Sun of Hope (Kurdish: خۆری هیوا, romanized: Xorî Hîwa) is a Kurdish militant group in Iran formed in 2026. It has claimed responsibility for armed attacks...

The Democratic Union Party (Kurmanji Kurdish: Partiya Yekîtiya Demokrat, pronounced [paːrtɨjaː jɛkiːtɨja dɛmokraːt], PYD; Arabic: حزب الاتحاد الديمقراطي...

Kurdology or Kurdish studies is an academic discipline centered on the study of Kurds and consists of several disciplines such as culture, history and...

Feyli Kurds (Kurdish: فه‌یلی/فەێلی, romanized: Feylî) are a collection of Kurdish tribes in the borderlands between Iraq and Iran. Historically, the lands...

Jalali (Persian: جلالی, Kurdish: Celalî, Turkish: Celâlî) are a Kurdish tribe in eastern Turkey and northwestern Iran. They predominantly inhabit the...

Kurdish villages were razed by the Ba'athist Iraqi government during its "Arabization campaign" of areas excluded from Kurdistan under the Iraqi–Kurdish...

The Kurdish National Alliance in Syria (HNKS; Kurdish: ھاوپەیمانیی نیشتمانیی کورد لە سووریا, romanized: Hevbendiya Niştimanî a Kurdî li Sûriyê, Arabic:...

Battle of Kirkuk, codenamed Operation Enforcing Security of the 2017 Iraqi–Kurdish conflict, was a military deployment by the Iraqi Security Forces to retake...

Giwar Hajabi (Kurdish: ژیوار حاجبی, romanized: Jîwar Hacibî, Central Kurdish pronunciation: ['ʒiwɑːɾ ħɑː'dʒəbiː]; 24 December 1981 – 7 May 2025), better...

Since August 2025, sporadic armed skirmishes have taken place between the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and the post-Assad Syrian Army, which...

The Kurdish Democratic Progressive Party in Syria (Kurdish: Partiya Dîmoqratî Pêşverû Kurd li Sûriyê; abbreviated PDPKS, KDPP or Pêşverû) is one of the...

Azadiya Kurd (Society for Kurdish Freedom), later Civata Xweseriya Kurd (Kurdish: Society for Kurdish Independence) was a Kurdish secret organization. According...

dialects) and Luri are the dominant members; Northwestern, of which the Kurdish languages are the dominant members. The Eastern Iranian languages, subdivided...

This is a list of Kurdish television channels. TRT Kurdî – Turkish state channel (pro-government) Zarok TV – Kurdish children's channel (animation) Kurdistan...

Laki (Kurdish: له‌کی, romanized: Lekî, Persian: لکی) is a language variety that consists of two major sub-varieties: Pish-e Kuh Laki and Posht-e Kuh Laki...

"Ey Reqîb" (Kurdish: ئەی ڕەقیب, romanized: Ey Řeqîb, pronounced [ɛj rɛˈqiːb]) is the Kurdish national anthem and the official anthem of the semi-autonomous...

course of three operations in the Dersim Province (renamed Tunceli) against Kurdish rebels of Alevi faith, and civilians in 1937 and 1938. Although most Kurds...

of Kurdish cultural and language rights and made the first legal defense in the Kurdish language in a Turkish court in 2013. He was born to a Kurdish family...

establishment of an independent Kurdish state. Relations between the two sides have been met with antisemitism and anti-Kurdish sentiment from the Arab League...

The number of Kurdish villages depopulated by Turkey is estimated at 3,000. Since 1984, the Turkish military has embarked on a campaign to eradicate the...

suicide attacks were forbidden in Islamic law. Letts was detained by the Kurdish YPG militia after trying to escape from the Battle of Raqqa. The BBC interviewed...

of 1930, the Turkish Communist Party (TKP) took the position that the Kurdish movement of the day was reactionary, a product of backward feudal social...

Hezbollah (Kurdish: حیزبوڵڵای شۆڕشگێڕی کوردستان; Arabic: حزب الله الثوري الكردستاني; the Revolutionary Party of God of Kurdistan) is a Kurdish Shia–Sunni...

Kurdish (Sorani): ئارتین / Artin, Northern Kurdish (Kurmanji): Artîn, Reconstructed Medean: Arta- or Artina, cuneiform: 𐎠𐎼𐎫) is an ancient Kurdish...

Kurdish Hezbollah of Iran (Kurdish: حیزبوڵڵای کوردی ئیران; Persian: حزب‌الله کرد ایران) is an Islamist political party created in Iran in 1983 under the...

Kurdistan Freedom Party (Kurdish: پارتی ئازادیی کوردستان, romanized: Partî Azadîyê Kurdistan, abbreviated as PAK) is a Kurdish nationalist and separatist...

of national schools and introduction of Kurdish TV and radio broadcasting. Kurds of Central Anatolia Kurdish languages map Turkish Kurdistan Western Armenia...

This is a list of massacres of Kurdish people Anti-Kurdish sentiment Persecution of Kurds List of massacres in Turkey List of massacres in Iraq Denial...

Nachbarn; Kurdish: Ciran) is a 2021 film written and directed by Mano Khalil. A Swiss/French co-production, the film depicts the experiences of a Kurdish boy...

long-running Kurdish–Turkish conflict. Insisting that the Kurds, like the Turks, are a Turkic people, Turkish state institutions do not recognize the Kurdish language...

Kurds, a Kurdish clan Mahmud Barzanji (1878–1956), Kurdish leader during the Mahmud Barzanji revolts Baba Ali Shaikh Mahmood (1912–1996), Kurdish Iraqi politician...

Helin (Kurdish: Hêlîn) is a Kurdish female given name which means "bird's nest". It is also used as a given name in Estonia. Helin Bölek (1991–2020), Kurdish...

Life, Freedom (Kurdish: ژن، ژیان، ئازادی, romanized: Jin, Jîyan, Azadî) is a popular political Kurdish slogan used in both the Kurdish independence and...

Islamic Union (Kurdish: یەکگرتووی ئیسلامیی کوردستان; Yekgirtiya Îslamî ya Kurdistanê), colloquially referred to as Yekgirtû, is a Kurdish Islamist party...

the Feyli Kurds dangerous to their policy, as they were Kurdish and Shia. The Iraqi-Kurdish Autonomy Agreement of 1970 did not change the government...

The 2011 Kurdish protests in Iraq (Sorani Kurdish: خۆپیشاندانی ١٧ی شوباتی ٢٠١١) were a series of demonstrations and riots against the Kurdistan Regional...

unknown. 1943 Iraqi Kurdish revolt (1943) – unknown. First Iraqi–Kurdish War (1961–1970) – 75,000–105,000 killed. Second Iraqi–Kurdish War (1974–1975) –...

(Kurdish: کوردانی شانشینی یەکگرتوو, romanized: Kurdên Brîtanya) refers to people of Kurdish origin born in or residing in the United Kingdom. Kurdish people...

The Peshmerga have historically been Kurdish guerrilla forces combating the ruling powers in the region of what is now Iraqi Kurdistan. The term "Peshmerga"...

The Mir Muhammad Rebellion was a Kurdish uprising led by Mir Muhammad of Rawanduz between 1830 and 1838 against the Ottoman Empire. Mir Muhammad, seeking...

The Kurdistan Communities Union (Kurdish: Koma Civakên Kurdistanê, KCK) is a Kurdish political organization committed to implementing Abdullah Öcalan's...

identity centered on Turkey. The term is particularly associated with the Kurdish political movement in Turkey, segments of the Turkish left, and the post-imprisonment...

leaders in Kurdish society, it has generally been the conservative Muslim Kurds who formed the backbone of Kurdish nationalist movements. Kurdish identity...

Iranian Kurdish opposition groups, including the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (KDPI). During the Iranian–Kurdish conflict, the Iranian Kurdish opposition's...

Ahmed or Ibrahîm Ehmed) (Kurmanji Kurdish: Ibrahîm Ehmed, Sorani Kurdish: ئیبراهیم ئه‌حمه‌د) was an Iraqi Kurdish writer, novelist, jurist and translator...

Kalhor (Kurdish: کەڵھوڕ) is a major Kurdish tribe native to the southern regions of Kurdistan where they traditionally lived on both sides of the Iran-Iraq...

The native language of Kurdistani Jews was Judeo-Aramaic rather than Kurdish. As Kurdistani Jews natively adhere to Judaism and originate from the Middle...

Mazloum Abdi is a Syrian Kurdish military leader, serving as the commander-in-chief of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). According to organizational...

field of the study of Kurdish tribal and linguistic tradition and also for the establishment of the Center of Contemporary Kurdish Studies. Asatrian was...

Kurder i Sverige; Kurdish: Kurdên Swêdê) may refer to people born in or residing in Sweden who are of Kurdish origin. Most Kurdish people in Sweden live...

Turtles Can Fly (Kurdish: Kûsî jî dikarin bifirin) is a 2004 Iranian-Kurdish war drama film written, directed, and co-produced by Bahman Ghobadi. The...

Adıyaman (Kurdish: Semsûr) is a city in southeastern Turkey. It is the administrative centre of Adıyaman Province and Adıyaman District. Its population...

Kirkuk (Arabic: كركوك, romanized: Kirkūk; Kurdish: کەرکووک, romanized: Kerkûk; Syriac: ܟܪܟܘܟ, romanized: Kerkouk; Turkish: Kerkük) is a major city in...

Berfin is a feminine given name of Kurdish origin meaning snowdrop. The name is derived from the Kurdish words “berf” meaning snow and the suffix “-în”...

The 2017 Kurdistan Region independence referendum was a failed bid at Kurdish independence from the Republic of Iraq. It was held on 25 September 2017...

The 1943–1945 Barzani revolt was a Kurdish insurrection in the Kingdom of Iraq, during World War II. The revolt was led by Mustafa Barzani and was later...

Moreover, there is a Kurdish lobby in Australia. In late 2014, Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott authorized the training of the Kurdish soldiers or Peshmerga...

The Kurdish Future Movement in Syria (Arabic: تيار المستقبل الكردي في سوريا, Kurdish: Şepêla Pêşeroj a Kurdî li Sûriyê) is a liberal Syrian Kurdish political...

by Turkey and the Turkish-backed Syrian National Army (SNA) against the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) amid the fall of the Assad regime. As...

Sulaymaniyah (Arabic: السليمانية, romanized: as-Sulaymāniyyah) or Slemani (Kurdish: سلێمانی, romanized: Silêmanî), is a city in the east of the Kurdistan...

invasion by the Turkish Armed Forces and Syrian National Army (SNA) in the Kurdish-majority Afrin District of northwest Syria, against the People's Protection...

was an armed Ottoman-backed tribal Kurdish uprising against the Qajar dynasty of Iran from 1918 to 1922, led by Kurdish chieftain Simko Shikak from the Shekak...

to Kurdish tribal chiefs that served in the rank of the Mamluk army. This military position was created by the Mamluk regime to mobilize Kurdish tribes...

opposition and allies, Al-Qaeda and affiliates, the Islamic State, and the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces. A number of sources have emphasized that...

majority party or list who also select the prime minister of the Iraqi Kurdish polity. The president is directly elected by the electorate of the region...

Iraqi–Kurdish Autonomy Agreement of 1970 (or the Iraqi–Kurdish peace talks or the 1970 Peace Accord) was an agreement, which the Iraqi government and the...

Kurd is a village in Tolna County, Hungary. Kurdish tribal chiefs were present in Hungary during the Ottoman–Hungarian Wars and fought the Hungarian army...

Kurdistan Region to mark these dates. 10 February: Kurdish Authors Union Day 18 February: Kurdish Students Union Day 1 March: Commemoration of Mustafa...

Kurdish Heritage Foundation of America, also known as Kurdish Library and Museum, was a cultural organization based in Brooklyn, New York. It collected...

Sport in Kurdistan (Kurdish: وەرزشی کوردستان, romanized: Werzişî Kurdistan) refers to the athletic activities and sporting culture across the various...

The Kurdistan National Congress (Kurmanji Kurdish: Kongreya Neteweyî ya Kurdistanê, KNK; Sorani Kurdish: کۆنگرەی نەتەوەییی کوردستان) is a coalition of...

other six SHP politicians have participated in a Kurdish congress in Paris organized by the Kurdish Institute and the Freedom Foundation in October 1989...

Ahmet Kaya Kurdish Cultural Centre (French: Centre culturel kurde Ahmet-Kaya; Kurdish, Kurmanji: Navenda çanda Kurd a Ahmet Kaya) is a Kurdish cultural...

women's rights. He also presided over the defeat of the Kurdish insurgency in the Second Iraqi–Kurdish War and signed the Algiers Agreement with Iran in 1975...

The PKK's ideology started off as a Marxism–Leninism with a blend of Kurdish nationalism. Marxist-Leninists have a long history of hostility towards...

war 2026 Iranian strikes on Iraq 2026 Kurdish–Iranian crisis 2 Kurdish civilians killed and 7 injured, 1 Kurdish civilian killed Iddon, Paul (8 April 2026)...

(Arabic: كتائب كردستان, Kurdish: کەتیبەکانی کوردستان) are a Kurdish militant Islamist organization, primarily active in the Kurdish regions of Iraq and Iran...

the city's Kurdish population. Sociolinguistic surveys of Kurdish-majority provinces, including Van, have found high rates of daily Kurdish language use...

refers to a series of state-sponsored policies aimed at assimilating the Kurdish population into a unified Turkish national identity. These efforts have...

Bae Taha Baban Benazir Bhutto List of Iranian Kurds List of Kurdish musicians List of Kurdish scholars Bois, Thomas (1966). The Kurds. Beirut: Khayats....

The Kurdistan Premier League (Kurdish: خولی نایابی کوردستان, romanized: Xûlî Nayabî Kurdistan) is the foremost association football league in the Kurdistan...

against Kurds (both inside and outside its borders) during the long running Kurdish–Turkish conflict. Turkey has faced many accusations of committing war crimes...

Zakho, also spelled Zaxo (Kurdish: زاخۆ, romanized: Zaxo or Zaco, Syriac: ܙܵܟ݂ܘܿ, romanized: Zāḵō, Armenian: Զախո, Arabic: زاخو, Lishanid Noshan: זאכו...

Guran (or Goran; Kurdish: گوران) is a Kurdish tribe in Kermanshah province, Iran. One of their main historical centers is Dartang, a region whose capital...

The following is a list of Kurdish philosophers. Ali Hariri Al-Mawardi Sheikh Adi ibn Musafir Ali Hariri Al-Mawardi Fexredîn Shihab al-Din Suhrawardi...

The Milan (Kurdish: Mîlan) is a Kurdish tribe that was historically at the head of a multi-confessional tribal confederacy, and is the subject of one of...

Baháʼísm, Druze, and Judaism exist in relatively small numbers amongst the Kurdish, Turks, Turcoman, Iranian, Azeri, Circassian, Israelis, Kawliya, Yezidis...

Turkey and in the early 1950s most Jewish speakers moved to Israel. The Kurdish-Turkish conflict resulted in further dislocations of speaker populations...

Islamic State, with the latter providing assistance to both Iraqi and Kurdish forces. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant and its allies captured...

The Kurdistan Football Association (Kurdish: یەکێتی تۆپی پێی کوردستان, romanized: Yekêtî Topîpêy Kurdistan) is the football governing body in Iraqi Kurdistan...

Deutschkurden; Kurdish: Kurdên Almanyayê), are residents or citizens of Germany of full or partial Kurdish origin. There is a large Kurdish community in...

Kurdistan Regional Parliament, also known as Kurdistan Parliament – Iraq (Kurdish: پەرلەمانی كوردستان; Arabic: برلمان اقليم كردستان), or simply Perleman...

The Battle of Zumar was fought between the Islamic State and Kurdish Peshmerga troops over the city of Zumar in Nineveh province in northern Iraq. It...

Hasakah Governorate (Arabic: محافظة الحسكة, romanized: Muḥāfaẓat al-Ḥasaka; Kurdish: Parêzgeha Hesekê; Classical Syriac: ܗܘܦܪܟܝܐ ܕܚܣܟܗ, romanized: Huparkiyo...

to Syria between 1980 and 1984, after the 1980 Turkish coup d'état. The Kurdish-Turkish conflict began in earnest in 1984. The rural-based insurgency lasted...

Serdar Roşan (born 1958) is a contemporary Kurdish writer, poet and translator. He was born in Diyarbakir and after the 1980 coup emigrated to Sweden...

2010, while Spain has no representation in Kurdistan Region. When the Kurdish representation opened in Madrid, the representative Daban Shadala stated...

1997). The Kurdish Nationalist Movement. War in the Gulf, 1990-91: The Iraq-Kuwait Conflict and Its Implications (with Majid Khadduri). The Kurdish Question...

like fûr, a poetic contraction of furono (they were). Û is used in the Kurdish Kurmanji alphabet to represent a long close back rounded vowel /uː/. In...

Vedat Aydın (1953 – 7 July 1991) was a Kurdish politician in Turkey and human rights defender. He was married to Sükran Aydın. He was born in 1953 in...

The Centre for Kurdish Progress is a platform for discussing issues affecting Kurdish-speakers in the UK and Kurdish regions in the Middle East. It was...

romanized: Mamiki; Kurdish: Kalan; Zazaki: Mamekiye) is a municipality (belde) in Tunceli District and capital of Tunceli Province, Turkey. The city has a Kurdish majority...

resistance. Fereydun released all of Zahāk's prisoners. Kāveh is a Persian/Kurdish mythological character known for his resistance against Zahāk in Iran....

rights issues include in particular the status of Kurds in Turkey. The Kurdish–Turkish conflict has caused numerous human rights violations over the years...

Iranians proclaimed the separatist Azerbaijan People's Government and the Kurdish separatist Republic of Mahabad. The United States pressure on the Soviet...

underwent a huge shift in the early part of the 20th century. Some Circassian, Kurdish and Chechen tribes cooperated with the Ottoman (Turkish) authorities in...

January 17, 2000) was a Kurdish Nurcu activist from Turkey, and the leader of Zehra Nur Movement, who was assassinated by Kurdish Hezbollah. He was born...

Abdul Rahman Ghassemlou (Kurmanji Kurdish: عەبدورەحمان قاسملۆ, Ebdurehman Qasimlo; Sorani Kurdish: عەبدوڕەحمان قاسملوو, romanized: 'Ebdur̄eḧman Qasimlû;...

around the Sheikh Maqsood and Ashrafiyah neighborhoods, both of which are Kurdish-majority districts and under the control of the Democratic Autonomous Administration...

Banaz Mahmod (Kurdish: بەناز مەحمود, 16 December 1985 – 24 January 2006) was a 20-year-old Iraqi Kurdish woman who lived in Mitcham, South London, England...

Crossing the Dust (Kurdish: Perrînewe le xobar) is a 2006 film written and directed by the Kurdish director Shawkat Amin Korki. During the fall of Saddam...

The Kurdish Freedom and Democracy Alliance (Turkish: Kürt Özgürlük ve Demokrasi İttifakı, KÖDİ; Kurdish: Tifaqa Azadî û Demokrasiyê ya Kurd, TADK) is...

the mountainous areas in the sanjak of Malatya were mostly inhabited by Kurdish tribes such as Reşwan. The province had a population of 306,882 in 1927...

medieval ages, most notably by Ottomans, neighbouring Muslim Arab and Kurdish tribes and principalities. After the 2014 Sinjar massacre of thousands...

Barzani (Arabic: مسرور بارزاني; Kurdish: مەسروور بارزانی, romanized: Mesrûr Barzanî; born 2 March 1969) is an Iraqi Kurdish politician and serving as prime...

romanized: Muḥammad Fū’ād Ma‘ṣūm; Kurdish: محەممەد فوئاد مەعسووم هەورامی, born 1 July 1938) is an Iraqi Kurdish politician who served as the president...

must be a Kurd. In contrast to previous agreements between the two ruling Kurdish parties (KDP and PUK) wherein it would be so that the federal presidency...

(1878 in Sulaymaniyah – October 9, 1956 in Baghdad) was a Kurdish leader who led a series of Kurdish uprisings against the British Mandate of Iraq. He was...

Since 1978, the conflict between Republic of Turkey and various Kurdish insurgent groups, especially Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) caused deaths of 40...

Sheikh Said (Kirmanjki: Şêx Seîd; c. 1865 – 29 June 1925) was a Zaza Kurdish religious leader, one of the leading sheikhs of the Naqshbandi order and...

romanized: ʻAbd al-Laṭīf Rashīd; born 10 August 1944), also known as Letif Reshid (Kurdish: لەتيف ڕەشید, romanized: Letîf Reşîd), is an Iraqi politician who served...

The Jaff tribe, (Kurdish: جاف) is one of the largest Kurdish tribal confederations. It is a dynasty that originated in the year 1114 by Zaher Beg Jaff...

Ali Askari (Sorani Kurdish: عەلی عەسکەری) (1936–1978) was a Kurdish politician, military leader, and revolutionary. He was a prominent leader in Iraqi...

The Assyrian-Kurdish Clashes (1895-1900) were clashes between the Assyrians and Kurds, during the Hamidian massacres (until 1897, when the massacres were...

the Taksim Square massacre in May 1977, and to have played a role in the Kurdish–Turkish conflict from 1978 onwards. The attempted assassination of Pope...

Sheylanli tribe (Kurdish: شیلانلی) is a Kurdish tribe who lived in the Sheylanli village, Lachin, until it was occupied by Armenian troops. Due to the...

The Salvation Force (Kurdish: سپای ڕزگاری, Sipay Rizgarî; Persian: سپاه رستگاری, Sepāh-e Rastegāri) was a Naqshbandi Islamist militant group composed...

deemed the legalization of the Kurdish language and the possibility of Kurdish songs being sung in coffee houses or Kurdish films being screened as separatism...

Suomen kurdit; Kurdish: Kurdên Fînlendayê) are a linguistic and ethnic minority in Finland. As of 2025[update], there were 18,460 Kurdish-speaking people...

Duhok (Kurdish: دهۆک, romanized: Dihok; Arabic: دهوك, romanized: Dohūk; Syriac: ܒܝܬ ܢܘܗܕܪܐ, romanized: Beth Nohadra, Lishanid Noshan: דוהוך, romanized: Dohok)...

with the PYD official Eldar Khalil, along with politicians from other Kurdish parties in Syria. The movement also signed an agreement with the National...

Aga (Javānmardi) (Sorani Kurdish: جوامێر ئاغای هه‌مه‌وه‌ند), (Gorani Kurdish: جوامر ئاگهە هەماواند), was the head of the Kurdish tribe of Hamawand during...

romanized: ʾArbīl; Syriac: ܐܲܪܒܹܝܠ, romanized: Arbēl), also called Hawler (Kurdish: هەولێر, romanized: Hewlêr), is the capital and most populated city in...

Baba Gurgur (Arabic: بابا كركر, Kurdish: بابە گوڕگوڕ, Babagurgur) is an oil field and gas flame near the city of Kirkuk, which was the first to be discovered...

Kurdish-Turkish peace initiatives, there were several, since the conflict with the Kurdistan Workers' Party began in 1978. Some were successful, others...

17 July Revolution 1918–2003 Iraqi–Kurdish conflict 1961–1970 First Iraqi–Kurdish War 1974–1975 Second Iraqi–Kurdish War 1975–1983 PUK insurgency 1979–1988...

The incorporation of Kurdish territories into the Republic of Turkey was the takeover of Turkish Kurdistan by the Republic of Turkey during the Turkish...

(Kurdish: Meclîsa Demokratîk a Civakên Kurdistanê ya Belçîkayê), commonly known as NAV-BEL, is a community-based organisation representing the Kurdish...

been an apparent rise in the expression of xenophobic feeling against the Kurdish, Armenian, and Jewish presences in Turkey. Çirakman also noted that the...

The December 2009 Kurdish protests in Turkey were a series of widespread civil disturbances in Turkey lasting five days. The protests erupted after a...

Kurdish News Network (KNN) (Kurdish: کەی ئێن ئێن), is a Kurdish language news television network founded in 2008 by Nawshirwan Mustafa, the leader of...

Qazi Muhammad (Kurdish: قازی محەممەد, romanized: Qazî Mihemed, Persian: قاضی محمد; 1 May 1893 – 31 March 1947) was an Iranian Kurdish Islamic cleric and...

reporters. Kurdish journalists: Turkish authorities conflate support for the Kurdish cause with terrorism itself. When it comes to Kurdish journalists...

Kurdish Language day (Sorani Kurdish: ڕۆژی زمانی کوردی, romanized: Řojî Zimanî Kurdî, Kurmanji Kurdish: Roja Zimanê Kurdî) May 15 is the Kurdish Language...

Lak (Kurdish: Lek ,لەک) is a Kurdish tribe native to Western Iran. They speak Laki, which is considered a Kurdish dialect by most linguists. Laks inhabit...

friends of the Kurdish people and we follow the events closely, and our key objective is to support the self-determination of the Kurdish people." Swedish...

The Islamic Emirate of Kurdistan (Kurdish: میرنشینی ئیسلامیی کوردستان) was an unrecognized and independent Kurdish state located in the Halabja Governorate...

of the Kurdish Institute of Brussels in Belgium. He arrived in Belgium as a refugee on 3 February 1977. In 1978, he founded TEKOSER (the Kurdish Workers...

Islam historically was the mainstay of the Kurdish independence movement, and it remained so until the Kurdish independence movement was later dominated...

advancing Islamic state troops from many cities, and later the withdrawal of Kurdish Peshmerga fighters from many positions including the Qaraqosh and Sinjar...

conflicts between Shia and Sunni Kurds, as well as Kurds and Azeris. The Kurdish rebels, who were well armed, captured Sanandaj, Paveh, Saqqez, and Mahabad...

(Kurmanji Kurdish: Asewarîyên dîrokî yên Kurdan, Sorani Kurdish: ئاسەواری مێژوویی کوردان, romanized: Asewarî mêjûyî Kurdan). Apart from Kurdish historical...

province. The northern part of Lorestan province is inhabited by Kurdish Lak people. Kurdish people also make up the plurality of the North Khorasan province...

Iraqi–Kurdish conflict (1918–2003), wars and rebellions by Iraqi Kurds against the government First Iraqi–Kurdish War (1961–70) Second Iraqi–Kurdish War...

name of Kurdish origin, commonly used among Kurdish communities in Iraq, Turkey, and Iran. Dilan is also a surname. In Kurdish, Dilan (Kurdish: دیلان)...

1972. Hennerbichler has been studying History of the Kurds, Kurdish language, and Kurdish culture since 1970s and has published over 500 academic articles...

Sheikh Ali Ilyas (born 1979, Kurdish: Şêx Elî Elyas) (Sorani Kurdish: شێخ عەلی ئیلیاس) is the Baba Sheikh of the Yazidis since November 2020. Ilyas was...

government's campaigns against internal opposition forces, namely the Kurdish rebels of the north, and the Shia rebels of the south. Repressive measures...

Muhhamadi Afandi Mala Rassul or Zewar, (زێوەر in Kurdish), (1875 – 10 November 1948), was a Kurdish poet and writer. Zewar was born in the Kaniskan neighborhood...

the Kurdish Society for Progress and Mutual Aid, Kurdish Society for Mutual Aid and Progress, Kurdish Society for Support and Progress, Kurdish Society...

Nazeri (Persian: حافظ ناظری, Kurdish: حافز نازری ,Hafiz Nazirî) is a Kurdish Iranian singer and composer. He is the son of Kurdish Iranian musician Shahram...

İbrahim Tatlı in 1952) is a Turkish folk singer and former actor of Arab-Kurdish descent. Since the 1970s he has been one of the best-known and most successful...

The Kurdish Heritage Institute is a non-governmental organization for preserving Kurdish heritage and music based in Sulaymaniyah, Iraq. The institute...

developed through a complex historical process involving a pre-Islamic Kurdish religious substratum and the teachings of Sheikh Adi ibn Musafir. Scholars...

The Halabja massacre (Kurdish: کیمیابارانی ھەڵەبجە, romanized: Kêmyabarana Helebce) took place in Iraqi Kurdistan on 16 March 1988, when thousands of...

Democratic confederalism (Kurdish: Konfederalîzma demokratîk), also known as Kurdish communalism, Öcalanism, or Apoism, is a political concept theorized...

Iranian Intermezzo in fact includes a number of other Iranian, mostly Kurdish, minor dynasties in the former caliphal provinces of Armenia, Albania,...

Doğubayazıt (Kurdish: Bazîd; Armenian: Պայազատ, romanized: Payazat or Դարոյնք, Daruynk) is a town in Ağrı Province of Turkey, near the border with Iran...

Rez Gardi MNZM (Kurdish: ڕێژین گەردی, Rêz Gerdî; 1991) is New Zealand's first Kurdish lawyer and human rights lawyer. She was named Young New Zealander...

The Salas (Kurdish: سەڵاس, Selas; Persian: ثلاث, Solas) are a Kurdish tribe living mainly in western Iran. The Salas comprised the Weledbegi, Babajani...

rule by the Shia and Kurdish population of Iraq, possibly resulting in his downfall. It was successful in doing so with the Kurdish population, but not...

territories of northern Iraq (Arabic: المناطق المتنازع عليها في العراق, Kurdish: ناوچە جێناکۆکەکانی عێراق) are regions defined by article 140 of the Constitution...

Sanandaj (Persian: سنندج; pronounced [sænænˈdædʒ] Kurdish: سنە, romanized: Senneh) is a city in the Central District of Sanandaj County, in the Kurdistan...

The February 1999 Kurdish protests were held by Kurds in Turkey, Iran and by the Kurdish diaspora worldwide, after Kurdistan Workers' Party leader Abdullah...

deaths, the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) vowed to retaliate. A few days later, Kurdish forces killed 3 soldiers in Afrin (Kurdish: Efrîn) and...

Wayback Machine, KurdishGlobe, 2009-02-21 Election campaigns start in Kurdistan Archived 2009-08-03 at the Wayback Machine, Kurdish Globe, 2009-05-23...

Ghaderzadeh (Persian: افشین قادرزاده; Kurdish: ئەفشین قادرزادە, romanized: Efşîn Qadirzade; born 13 July 2002) is an Iranian Kurdish Internet personality who is...

Kurdish authorities. Minorities have complained about "forcible assimilation into Kurdish society," increased discrimination against the non-Kurdish population...

languages using it are Arabic, Persian (Farsi and Dari), Urdu, Uyghur, Kurdish, Pashto, Punjabi (Shahmukhi), Sindhi, Saraiki, Azerbaijani (Torki in Iran)...

the hostages outside of the compound. The Kurdish government stated after the raid that none of the 15 Kurdish fighters who were the object of the operation...

It is used in Abkhaz, Bashkir, Dungan, Itelmen, Kalmyk, Kazakh, Khanty, Kurdish, Uyghur and Tatar. It was also used in Azeri (still used by Azeri speakers...

الدفاع الوطني; NDB) were an Iraqi Kurdish paramilitary and gendarmerie force. They were initially formed as a Kurdish pro-government militia used by Abdul-Karim...

Turkish) of The Purple Color of Kurdish Politics, a multiauthored book about women's struggle for equality within the Kurdish political party tradition, as...

Rizavand (Kurdish: رێزەوەن, Rêzewen; Persian: ریزه‌وند، ریزوند), also known as Chardawli (Kurdish: چواردەوڵی; Persian: چهاردولی، چاردولی) are a Kurdish tribe...

The Kurdish Democratic Party (Kurdish: Partiya Demokrata Kurd; Turkish: Kürt Demokrat Partisi) is a Kurdish political party in Turkey. On May 12, 2020...

Syria, and Iran.  Brendan O'Leary referred to Gunter as, "The doyen of Kurdish political studies in the United States," while Martin van Bruinessen wrote...

lands, but the deportations also included the forced sedentarization of Kurdish tribes. Turkish historian İsmail Beşikçi emphasized the influence of fascism...

Organization (Kurdish: ڕێکخراوی ڕابیتەی مرۆیی) which formerly known as The Islamic Kurdish League (Kurdish: Rabitay Islamy Kurd), is a Kurdish Sunni Islamic...

Shabaks (Arabic: الشبك, Kurdish: شەبەک, romanized: Şebek) are a group that inhabit the Nineveh Plains in Iraq. They speak Shabaki, a Northwestern Iranian...

the Kurdish people, written by David McDowall and published by I.B.Tauris in 1996 (hardback first edition). The work is a history of the Kurdish people...

used to mark the topic of a sentence. It is found in Japanese, Korean, Kurdish, Quechua, Ryukyuan, Imonda and to a limited extent Classical Chinese. It...

مروان, Kurdish: نەجمەدین ئەییووبی شادی مەروان, romanized: Necmeddîn Eyûbî Şadî Merwan; died August 9, 1173), or simply Najmadin, was a Kurdish mercenary...

On 16 September 2022, 22-year-old Kurdish-Iranian woman Mahsa Amini, also known as Jina Amini, died in a hospital in Tehran, Iran, under suspicious circumstances...

The Counter Terrorism Department (Kurdish: دژه‌ تیرۆری كوردستان, romanized: Dijê Tirorî Kurdistan, CTD) or Counter Terrorism Unit (CT Unit) is a Peshmerga...

The Kurdistan national football team (Kurdish: هەڵبژاردەی نیشتمانی تۆپی پێی کوردستان romanized : jêgrtîya welatî ya tepapê ya Kurdistan ê) is the national...

centuries that followed, a number of nomadic and semi-nomadic Arabic- and Kurdish-speaking tribes wandered the area with their livestock into the 20th century...

States supported Saddam Hussein at the time, and was considered an enemy by Kurdish nationalists. The relations of the PKK and KDP gradually worsened, and...

Ba'athist Iraq. The unity government collapsed in 1994 and caused the Iraqi Kurdish Civil War to break out that ended in 1998. This resulted in the establishment...

fight against their own government, and often held Anti-Kurdish views as well. In turn, the Kurdish Islamists also held nationalist, separatist, and Anti-Turkish...

fought successfully, scoring a number of victories over the Ottomans, Kurdish tribes, and Persian forces. This situation continued until their Russian...

military push against Kurdish rebels". The Jerusalem Post - JPost.com. Retrieved 11 February 2015. Turkey says it killed 100 Kurdish rebels in Iraq[dead...

Kilomètre Zéro (Sorani Kurdish: کیلۆمەتری سفر; French for "Kilometer Zero") is a 2005 film written, produced and co-directed by Kurdish director Hiner Saleem...

The Kurdish Human Rights Project is the only non-partisan human rights organisation consistently working in the Kurdish regions of Turkey, Iraq, Iran...

Ali Zandi (1956–2024) was a famous traditional Kurdish singer and musician from Sna, Kurdistan province, Iran. Ali was born to a family from Sîâsarân...

February 2016. Retrieved 9 May 2021. Ahmed, Raed Asad (26 June 2014). "Kurdish Judge Who Ordered Saddam Hanged is Alive and Well". Rudaw Online. Rudaw...

Mahir Hassan (Kurdish: ماهیر حەسەن, Mahîr Hassan; born on January 10, 1963) in Arbat Town. is a Kurdish actor and playwright, known for the film Star...

Kashk, kishk, (Persian: کشک kašk, Turkish: keş, Sorani Kurdish: کەشک keşk) qurut, qurt, kurut, kurt (Tuvan and Kyrgyz: курут kurut, Kazakh: құрт qūrt...

The National Reform Movement (Kurdish: Bizûtinewey‌ Chaksazi Nishtimani lit. National Reform Movement) is a Kurdish political party in the Kurdistan Region...

volunteer fighter who served with the People's Protection Units (YPG), a Kurdish militia, during the Syrian Civil War from 2016 to 2017. He is best known...

December 2012) was a Kurdish lawyer, politician, government minister and statesman in Turkey. He was one of the pioneers of Kurdish politics in Turkey....

Kalar District (Kurdish: قەزای کەلار, romanized: Qezay Kelar) is a district of the Sulaymaniyah Governorate in Kurdistan Region, Iraq. The map of estimated...

Bingöl (Armenian: Ճապաղջուր, romanized: Chapaghjur; Kurdish: Çewlik; Zazaki: Çewlîg), known as Çapakçur before 1944, is a city in Turkey. It is the seat...

Alparslan Kuytul is a Kurdish cleric who leads the Furkan Education and Service Foundation. Alparslan Kuytul was born in 1965 in Karataş. He graduated...

33,509 of Armenia's citizens speak Kurdish as a first language (31,479 reported Yazidi while 2,030 reported Kurdish). 32,688 of the speakers were ethnic...

Kurdish: Sakîne Cansiz, IPA: [sɑːkiːnɛ dʒɑːnsɪz]; 1958 – 10 January 2013) was one of the co-founders of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). A Kurdish...

a Kurdish party active in Kurdish areas of Syria, seeking Kurdish federalism in Syria. It is also active in areas and neighborhoods with a Kurdish majority...

boarding school for Kurdish girls and young women established in Elazığ, Turkey. The boarding school was opened in 1937 to counter the Kurdish Dersim rebellion...

(Persian: امیر حسن‌پور, Kurdish: ئه‌میر حه‌سه‌نپوور, romanized: Emîr Hesenpûr; 17 November 1943 – 24 June 2017) was an Iranian and Kurdish scholar and researcher...

Look up firat or Firat in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Firat is a Kurdish name. It is also a latinized version of Fırat, the Turkish equivalent. Notable...

Northern Kurdistan (Kurdish: Bakurê Kurdistanê) is the southeastern part of Turkey where Kurds form the predominant ethnic group. The Kurdish Institute of Paris...

considered Kurdish by linguistic research, but are included by most Kurdish authors in maps of Kurdistan because they identify as Kurdish. Many Zaza/Dimili...

1952 – January 17, 2000) was the founder and leader of the Kurdish Hezbollah, a Kurdish separatist and Islamist group which was designated as a terrorist...

conflict is an armed conflict between the Islamic Republic of Iran and Kurdish rebels of the Kurdistan Free Life Party (PJAK), which began in 2004. The...

Hawks, or TAK (Kurdish: Teyrêbazên Azadiya Kurdistan), is a Kurdish nationalist militant group in Turkey seeking an independent Kurdish state in Turkish...

Hakki Önal, Adnan Ekmen and Salik Sumer were of Kurdish origin. This was at a time when use of the Kurdish language was forbidden in public and private life...

Khundmeeri 2008, Kurdish, "تەفسیرا ساناهی" by Tahsin Ibrahim Doski. 2009, Kurdish, "Qur’ana pîroz Kurdî" by Tenvir Neshriyat. 2010, Kurdish, "Nura Qelban"...

Rojbin (pronunciation: /ˈɾoʒ.biːn/) is a Kurdish feminine given name meaning "one who sees the day". The name shows regional variation in Turkey: Rojbin...

were the reasons Greece opened a consulate general in Erbil in May 2016. Kurdish Foreign Minister Falah Mustafa Bakir visited Athens in November 2015 and...

publications. In some cases, the state has been involved in the deaths of Kurdish journalists. Only few cases of journalists killed in Turkey between the...

1865–1965, 2004 p. 139 Doğan, Zülfikar (5 February 2016). "Erdogan's new Kurdish allies". Al-Monitor. Retrieved 16 February 2021. Jabar, Faleh A; Mansour...

Since 1978, the conflict between Republic of Turkey and various Kurdish insurgent groups, especially Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) caused deaths of 40...

Abdullah Mohtadi (Persian: عبدالله مهتدی; Sorani Kurdish: عەبدوڵڵا موهتەدی; born 1949) is the leader and secretary general of Komala Party of Iranian...

Kurd Mountain or Kurd Dagh (Kurdish: Çîyayê Kurmênc; Arabic: جبل الأكراد, romanized: jabal al-ʾakrād; Turkish: Kürt Dağı, officially Kurt Dağı) is a highland...

Suleiman Moini was an Iranian Kurdish political activist and one of the leaders of the Revolutionary Committee of the Kurdish Democratic Party of Iran. Suleiman...

Zekeriya Yapıcıoğlu (born 1966; Batman) is a Kurdish Turkish politician and lawyer who led the Kurdish Islamist Free Cause Party from June 2013 to May...

difference between Iraqi Arabs and Iraqi Kurds as populations. Arabic and Kurdish are Iraq's two official languages; Mesopotamian Arabic is the Iraqi Arabic...

(Kurdish: قەرەلووسی, Qerelûsî) are a Kurdish tribe living mainly in eastern Iraq around Mandali near the Iran–Iraq border. They speak Southern Kurdish...

Northern Iraq offensive. On 5 August, the United States started supplying the Kurdish Peshmerga forces with weapons. On 8 August, the United States began airstrikes...

identified the Kurdish languages as Parthian, albeit with a Median substratum. David Neil MacKenzie, an authority on the Kurdish language, said Kurdish was closer...

The Simple Truth: A Concert for Kurdish Refugees was a 1991 fundraising concert in support of Kurdish Refugees after the Gulf War. The concert was produced...

known as Ibrahim Pasha Baban (Kurdish: ئیبراهیم پاشا بابان; ? - 1806) was one of the most famous ottoman princes of the Kurdish Baban family and leader of...

Faraj Ahmad (born 7 July 1956), better known as Mullah Krekar, is an Iraqi Kurdish Sunni Islamic scholar and militant leader. He was a commander for the Peshmerga...

northeast. Kurdish is a recognized national language. According to The Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics, in addition to Arabic and Kurdish, the...

(Kurmanji: Bedirxan Beg, Turkish: Bedirhan Bey; 1803–1869) was the last Kurdish Mir and mütesellim of the Emirate of Botan. He was also subjected to the...

Sulaymaniyah Governorate (Sorani Kurdish: پارێزگای سلێمانی; Kurmanji Kurdish: Parêzgeha Silêmaniyê; Arabic: محافظة السليمانية) or Sulaymaniyah Province...

Nawzad or Nauzad or NozadorNouzad (Persian/Pashto/Kurdish: نوزاد) is a Persian, Pashto and Kurdish word meaning "newborn." It is also a city name and...

Youssef Wali Faeq Amyn (Kurdish: یووسف وەلی فایەق ئەمین, romanized: Ûsif Welî Fayeq Emîn, Arabic: يوسف والي فائق أمين; born 21 August 2003) is a professional...

The Kurd's Heritage Museum (Kurdish: مۆزەخانەی کەلەپووری کورد; Arabic: متحف التراث الكردي), is a history museum located within the heart of Mawlawi Street...

Turkish actor, singer, composer, writer and director of Kurdish descent. His family is of Kurdish origin. Deniz's family is originally from Ağrı but he...

Norwegian Kurdish actor. Jalal Talabani (1933–2017), sixth President of Iraq from 2005 to 2014, 39th Prime Minister of Iraq, leader of the Iraqi Kurdish Patriotic...

containing the waterway in exchange for Iran's cessation of support for Iraqi Kurdish rebels. Qajar Iran had repudiated the demarcation line established in the...

of the following: Kurdish–Turkish conflict - between PKK and affiliated Kurdish organizations against Turkey from 1984 Iraqi–Kurdish conflict - a separatist...

Rewşan Çeliker or Rewşan (Kurdish: ڕەوشان چەلیکەر) is a Kurdish musician, singer, songwriter, and violinist born in Tatvan, Bitlis, Turkey. Her songs...

The Jafar Sultan revolt (Kurdish: شۆڕشی جەعفەر سوڵتان, Persian: شورش جعفر سلطان) refers to a Kurdish tribal revolt in Pahlavi Iran which erupted in the...

Latif Yahia (Arabic: لطيف يحيى, romanized: Laṭīf Yaḥīa, Kurdish: لەتیف یەحیا; born 14 June 1964) is an Iraqi blogger, political writer, and former captain...

Kurds in Palestine (Kurdish: Kurdên Filistînê; Arabic: اكراد فلسطين: Akrad Filisteen) refers to Palestinians of Kurdish ancestry. These individuals trace...

the French High Commissioner later let Kurdish refugees into their colonies. Later, a "dissatisfied Kurdish chief" expressed himself as such to the French...

Nechirvan Idris Barzani (Kurdish: نێچیرڤان بارزانی, romanized: Nêçîrvan Barzanî; born 21 September 1966) is an Iraqi Kurdish politician serving as the...

37°3′N 43°9′E / 37.050°N 43.150°E / 37.050; 43.150 Duhok Governorate (Kurdish: پارێزگای دھۆک, Parêzgeha Dihok, Syriac: ܗܘܦܪܟܝܐ ܕܢܘܗܕܪܐ, romanized: Hoparkiya...

the history of the Kurdistan Region, held just one year after the 1991 Kurdish uprisings against the Ba’ath regime. The elections had initially been planned...

Anti-Kurdish sentiment, also known as anti-Kurdism or Kurdophobia, is hostility, fear, intolerance or racism against Kurds, Kurdistan, Kurdish culture...

Caucher Birkar FRS (Kurdish: کۆچەر بیرکار, romanized: Koçer Bîrkar, lit. 'migrant mathematician'; born Fereydoun Derakhshani (Kurdish: فەرەیدوون درەخشانی،...

Sardasht Osman (Kurdish: سەردەشت عوسمان, Serdeşt Osman) was an Iraqi Kurdish journalist and student from Erbil who was kidnapped on 4 May 2010 outside...

(Sorani Kurdish: بێگەرد تاڵەبانی) or Begard Dlshad Shukralla (Sorani Kurdish: بێگەرد دڵشاد شوکڕوڵڵا) (born December 27, 1978) is an Iraqi Kurdish politician...

have been held between the two parties, including a visit to Berlin by Kurdish President Masoud Barzani in 2009, where he met with German Chancellor Angela...

1945), a contemporary Kurdish poet and writer. He was born in the Diyarbakır region in south-eastern Turkey. He became active in Kurdish politics in the 1970s...

Hapsa Khan (Kurdish: حەپسەخان, romanized: Hepise Xan) was an early Kurdish feminist and nationalist leader who founded the first women's school in Iraq...

[page needed] Some Kurdish men, especially religious Kurds, also practice polygamy.[page needed] However, polygamy has almost disappeared from Kurdish culture,[citation...

Şehrîbana Kurdî (born 1973, Mazıdağı), is a Kurdish singer from Kurdistan. Her family are originally from Mazıdağı, Mardin. She began singing at the age...

into Kobanî to support Kurdish fighters. The change in policy came after the Turkish government had refused to allow Kurdish fighters and supplies to...

Mulla Abu Bakr Effendi, also Mulla Effendi (also spelled Mala Fandi, (Kurdish: Mele Fendî), (Arabic: ملا أفندي), Abu Bakr IV, or Küçük Mulla (Turkish:...

kürtçe sözlük" [interactive dictionary of Kurdish - Kurdish dictionary]. Tirşik network (tirsik.net) (in Kurdish). Kelkar, Ashok R. (October 1967) [1969]...

Jwan (Sorani Kurdish: جوان) is a gender neutral given name, which means "pretty" in Kurdish Sorani language. It may refer to: Jwan Hajo or Ciwan Haco (born...

"conquest"), also known as Operation Wahdat (the Kurdish code-name), was a joint Iranian and Iraqi Kurdish military operation conducted during the Iran-Iraq...

Mahmut Alınak (Kurdish: Mehmûd Alinak) (born 1952, Dolaylı [tr], Digor, Kars Province), also known as Mehmûd Avdo is a Turkish lawyer, author and politician...

Akam Hashim Rahman (Arabic: اكام هاشم رحمن; Kurdish: ئاکام هاشم ڕەحمان; born 16 August 1998) is a Kurdish Iraqi professional footballer who last played...

battles fought during the 1991 uprisings in Iraq. Sulaymaniyah, a mostly Kurdish city with a population of over 100,000, was the first to be liberated by...

Kurd Idol (Kurdish: کورد ئایدڵ / Kurd Aydil) is the first international franchise in Kurdish television history. Kurd Idol reality singing competition...

Bafel Jalal Talabani (Kurdish: بافڵ جەلال تاڵەبانی, romanized: Bafił Celal Tałebanî; born 19 February 1973) is an Iraqi Kurdish politician who has served...

Muhammad (Kurdish: Mîr Mihemed, Sorani Kurdish: میر محەممەد; also known as Mirê Kor, the "blind prince". Born in Rawandiz; 1783–1838) was the Kurdish Mir of...

Rebellion began in 1927 when Kurdish rebels seized control of Mount Ararat and surrounding areas, proclaiming an independent Kurdish government. The Turkish...

the said coalition. Michel Kilo told Madar Daily in April 2016 that the Kurdish Democratic Union Party’s project for federalism is a project to divide...

the Kurdish population of Syria. The organization was based in Berlin, Germany. KurdWatch is closely associated with the European Center for Kurdish Studies;...

alone, 600 Kurdish villages were burned down and around 200,000 Kurds were deported to other parts of Iraq. As a part of the Iraqi–Kurdish conflict, the...

The 2020 Kurdish protests were a series of demonstrations and riots against the Kurdistan Regional Government in Sulaymaniyah Governorate in Iraqi Kurdistan...

Its capital is the city of Arkavaz. The Malekshahi tribe is the largest Kurdish tribe in Ilam.[citation needed] In 2008, Malekshahi District was separated...

(Kurdish: موکەڕەم تاڵەبانی, Arabic: مكرم الطالباني, romanized: Mukarram al-Ṭālbānī; March or April or May 1923 – 24 January 2025) was an Iraqi Kurdish...

a Kurdish political party led by Abdullah Mohtadi Komalah (CPI), a Kurdish political party led by Ibrahim Alizade Komala – Reform Faction, a Kurdish political...

was a primary school teacher and author of several books published in Kurdish, including "The Life of Mohammad" and "Exegesis (Tafsir) of Quran". Ala'Aldeen...

Belbas (Kurdish: بڵباس, Biłbas) are a historical Kurdish tribal confederation living mainly on the borderlands in Iran and Iraq. They speak Kurdish and mainly...

transliterated as Wirishe Moradi or Warisha Moradi; Kurdish: Werîşe Mûradî, Persian: وریشه مرادی) is a Kurdish political prisoner and women's rights activist...

The Kurdistan Social Democratic Party (Kurdish: حزبی سۆسیال دیموکراتی کوردستان, romanized: Hizbî Sosyal Dîmukratî Kurdistan, abbreviated as KSDP) is a...

Humaydi or Humaydiyya (Kurdish: Hevêdî), was a medieval Kurdish tribe branch of Çehârbuhtî Kurdish tribal federation. That inhabited the regions of Al-Jazira...

Mihemed Şêxmûs Salih (Sorani Kurdish: محەمە شێخۆ) better known as Mihemed Şêxo, was one of the most important Kurdish folk singers. With his sentimental...

as Ihsan Nuri Pasha (Kurdish: Îhsan Nûrî Paşa ,ئیحسان نووری پاشا), 1892 or 1893, Bitlis – 25 March 1976, Tehran) was a Kurdish soldier and politician...

The Worker-communist Party of Kurdistan (Kurdish: حزبی کۆمۆنیستی کرێکارییکوردستان, romanized: Hizbî Komonîstî Krêkarî Kurdistan) is a Marxist political...

The Hamawand (Kurdish: ھەمەوەند, Hemewend) are a Kurdish tribe living mainly in Iraq but also in Iran. They speak Kurdish and mainly follow Sunni Islam...

Jordan refers to people born in or residing in Jordan who are of Kurdish origin. The Kurdish population in Jordan is approximately 30,000 and they mainly...

ethnic Kurds who come from or live in the region of the Caucasus. The first Kurdish presence in the Caucasus region can be traced back to the middle of the...

This is a list of notable individuals who are of full or partial Kurdish origin who grew up and/or live in Germany. Jamal Nebez, linguist, mathematician...

The Kaka'i (Kurdish: کاکەیی, Kakeyî; Arabic: كاكائي; Persian: کاکه‌ای) are a Kurdish tribal federation living mainly in Iraq. The Kaka'i follow Yarsanism...

Abdurrahman Pasha Baban (Kurdish: عەبدوڕڕەحمان پاشا بابان, romanized: 'ebdwrreḧman paşa baban) also known as Awrahman Pasha Baban (Kurdish: ئەورەحمان پاشای بابان...

(Turkish: Mezopotamya Ajansı/ MA) is a Kurdish news agency based in Beyoğlu, Istanbul. It is described as pro-Kurdish by the Platform to promote the protection...

Asayish patrol when Kurdish police failed to stop at a government checkpoint inside the Qamishli District. According to Kurdish sources the NDF killed...

acknowledged the challenges to such an alliance, such as Islamism, and the Kurdish independence movement, but defended it claiming that "no new and bold idea...

Yarsanism (Kurdish: یارسان, romanized: Yarsan), Ahl-e Haqq (Kurdish: ئەهلی حەق, romanized: Ehlî Ḧeq; Persian: اهل حق), or Kaka'i, is an inherited, syncretic...

Chopy Shakir Fatah (Sorani Kurdish: چۆپی شاکر فەتاح) (/tʃoʊpi/; born June 10, 1983) is a contemporary Kurdish singer. Her family emigrated to the Netherlands...

friends but the mountains" (Kurdish: Ji çiyan pê ve tu heval nînin; Sorani Kurdish: ھیچ دۆستێک جگە لە چیاکان) is a Kurdish proverb which is expressed to...