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Fearing Armenian-Kurdish cooperation, the Ottoman Empire was induced to subordinate the Kurds and use them as an instrument to prevent any Armenian attempt to self-rule. While the forced recruitment to the Hamidiye cavalry pushed many Kurds to rebel (notably the Kurds of Murat river ), some tribes like the Mazrik tribe chose to take part in the ...
There is a recognition by several groups of Kurds of the 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 the Turks and other people, participated in massacres of Armenians.
[3] Occurring just after the Armenian genocide, many Kurds believed that they would share the same fate as the Armenians. [4] Historians Dominik J. Schaller and Jürgen Zimmerer state that this event "not only serves as a reminder of the unsettling fact that victims could become perpetrators, but also that perpetrators [as some Kurds were ...
Armenia's Kurdish population. The Kurds in Armenia (Armenian: Քրդերը Հայաստանում, romanized: K’rderë Hayastanum; Kurdish: Kurdên Ermenistanê Кӧрден Әрмәньстане), also referred to as the Kurds of Rewan [a] (Kurdên Rewanê), form a major part of the historically significant Kurdish population in the post-Soviet space, and live mainly in the western parts ...
Kurds constitute approximately 17% of Iraq's population. [citation needed] They are the majority in at least three provinces in northern Iraq. Kurds also have a presence in Kirkuk, Mosul, Khanaqin, and Baghdad. 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.
Massacres in the countryside continued for 46 days after the initial massacres in Diyarbakır city. In the village of Sa'diye inhabited by 3000 Armenians and Assyrians, the Turks first killed the men, then the women and finally the children. A group of villagers attempted to shelter in a church but the Kurds burnt it and killed those inside.
The Zuzan region was inhabited mainly by Christian Armenians in the early 10th century. While Kurds where located in the south and eastern Zuzan, in a region called Diyar al-Akrād "home of the Kurds". [1] [2] From 10th century onwards, more Kurdish Muslim tribes migrated to Zuzan and to the west. Changing the demographic and political makeup ...
Kurds developed an own typical genetic profile called "Modal Kurdish Haplotype" (KMH or MKMH for Muslim Kurds) on subclade J2-M172 with the following loci: 14-15-23-10-11-12. The highest percentage of this haplotype has been measured so far in Yazidis in Armenia and in Muslim Kurds from Northern Iraq: Yazidis in Armenia: 11.9%,