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On 22 December 2004, a non-partisan delegation headed by Ardishir Rashidi-Kalhur, president of the Kurdish American Education Society met with Carina Perelli, Head of the U.N. Electoral Assistance Division and staff, at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, to hand over 1,732,535 signatures, which were collected endorsing the call for an independence referendum on the future of Southern ...
Kurdish Americans; Total population; 25,000 (0.01% of U.S. population; 2020 Census figures) [1] Higher community estimates of 40,000 and beyond [2] Regions with significant populations; San Diego, Nashville, Tennessee, and in the upper Midwest, including in Nebraska, Moorhead, Minnesota, and Fargo, North Dakota [3] Languages; Kurdish, American ...
Kurdish National Alliance in Syria (HNKS) Syrian Democratic Council (SDC) Democratic Union Party (Syria) (PYD) Movement for a Democratic Society (TEV-DEM) People's Protection Units (YPG) Women's Protection Units (YPJ) Asayish; Kurdish National Council (ENKS) Kurdish Islamic Front; Movement of Salah al-Din the Kurd; Kurdistan Democratic Party of ...
Kurdish tribes in the area often operated as soldiers for hire, [57] and were still placed in specific military settlements in the northern Syrian mountains. [59] There existed a Kurdish elite of which Saladin, [60] the founder of the Ayyubid dynasty and the Emir of Masyaf in the 12th century were part of. [61]
NASHVILLE/NEW YORK, Oct 11 (Reuters) - Like many Kurds living in the United States, Lava Antar has had a hard time sleeping this week, waking often to check reports of Turkish jets and artillery ...
Established on May 23, 2008 by US Congressmen Lincoln Davis (D-Tennessee) and Joe Wilson (R-South Carolina), the Kurdish American Congressional Caucus is a bipartisan Congressional committee focusing on US-Kurdish relations, understanding Kurdish culture, and addressing overarching issues important to Kurdish-Americans in the U.S. and elsewhere.
Segments of the Bible were first made available in the Kurdish language in 1856 in the Kurmanji dialect. The Gospels were translated by Stepan, an Armenian employee of the American Bible Society and were published in 1857. Prominent historical Kurdish Christians include the brothers Zakare and Ivane Mkhargrdzeli. [85] [86] [87]
A renowned female commander of the Kurdish opposition forces in Syria, credited by the U.S. military with saving American lives in the battle against ISIS, has