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The 2021 Konya massacre was the killing of a Kurdish family in Turkey. 4 women and 3 men were killed as a result. [13] [14] According to an interview given by members of the family to Duvar, the attackers where close to the far-right Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) who did not want to permit Kurds to live in the neighborhood.
The Zilan massacre of 1930 was a massacre [4] [5] 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, dress, folklore, and names were banned, and the Kurdish-inhabited areas remained under martial law until 1946. [6]
When Kemal Pasha arrived in Hazro district to explore the region for warfare conditions, he lodged with the local Kurdish notable Hatip Bey. But the mayor of Hazro told Kemal confidentially that the local Kurdish elite was not to be trusted. He suggested that the families needed to be ‘exterminated root and branch’ as soon as possible. [7]
Kurdish ethnic revival appeared in the 1970s when Turkey was racked with left-right clashes and the Marxist PKK was formed demanding a Kurdish state. [58] PKK declared its objective as the liberation of all parts of Kurdistan from colonial oppression and establishment of an independent, united, socialist Kurdish state.
Ethnic persecution, wars, and displacements of the Kurdish population Part of Iraqi–Kurdish conflict , Kurdish–Turkish conflict , and the Syrian Civil War Kurdish refugees from Kobanî in a refugee camp, on the Turkish side of the Syria–Turkey border
A Turkish prosecutor at a court in 1971, speaking about the issue of Kurdish separatism in Turkey during a trial against members of the Revolutionary People's Liberation Party/Front, went on to make statements about the various Kurdish languages and dialects and stated that "there is no doubt that Kurdish is a Turkic language, just like Yakut ...
Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan vowed Wednesday to order a land invasion of northern Syria targeting Kurdish groups, amid yearslong border violence and repeated Turkish incursions. Turkey ...
Kurdish Dasni tribe uprising against the Abbasids Abbasid Caliphate: Suppressed 955–1071 [2] [3] [4] War against the Musafirid. Rawadid dynasty: Victory 1045 Battle of Dvin: Shaddadids: Victory 990–1085 Kurdish uprising The Marwanids: Victory, led to the birth of the Marwanids dynasty 1506–1510 Kurdish-Yazidi uprising against the Safavids ...