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Kurds 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 be ethnic Kurds. The majority of Kurdish Americans are recent migrants from Turkey , Iran , Iraq and Syria .
Turkish House, designed by Perkins Eastman, is 35 stories tall and measures 561 feet (171 m) from the ground to the roof. [2] [3] The building contains about 220,000 square feet (20,000 m 2) of usable space, of which 180,000 square feet (17,000 m 2) is used by the Permanent Mission of Turkey to the United Nations and the Consulate General of Turkey in New York City; the rest is residential space.
The Kurds are the largest ethnic minority in Turkey.According to various estimates, they compose between 15% and 20% of the population of Turkey. [4] [5] [6] There are Kurds living in various provinces of Turkey, but they are primarily concentrated in the east and southeast of the country within the region viewed by Kurds as Turkish Kurdistan.
They mostly live in the Eastern Anatolia and Southeastern Anatolia regions of Turkey. [3] Zazas generally [ 8 ] consider themselves Kurds , [ 9 ] [ 6 ] [ 10 ] [ 11 ] and are often described as Zaza Kurds by scholars.
New leaders in Washington and Damascus may expose longtime U.S. partners to Turkish incursions.
Around 300,000 Kurds live in the Iraqi capital Baghdad, 50,000 in the city of Mosul and around 100,000 elsewhere in southern Iraq. [citation needed] Kurds led by Mustafa Barzani were engaged in heavy fighting against successive Iraqi regimes from 1960 to 1975. In March 1970, Iraq announced a peace plan providing for Kurdish autonomy.
Kurdistan (Kurdish: کوردستان, romanized: Kurdistan, lit. ' land of the Kurds '; [ˌkʊɾdɪˈstɑːn] ⓘ), [5] or Greater Kurdistan, [6] [7] is a roughly defined geo-cultural region in West Asia wherein the Kurds form a prominent majority population [8] and the Kurdish culture, languages, and national identity have historically been based. [9]
So there was hype to live up to at Burch’s spring/summer 2025 runway show, set in the Skylight at the top of the long-in-the-works restoration of the Domino Sugar Refinery in Williamsburg.