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Moreover, Kurdish schools were opened by Armenians in the mixed towns of Muş, Bitlis, Kiğı and Eleşkirt. There were also attempts to open Armenian schools in Kurdish-populated areas. The reason for this move was the belief among Armenian intellectuals that the Kurds should be wooed to prevent the Kurds from uniting with the Ottoman Empire.
Kurdish Council of Armenia 10 Mar 2009 The president of the Kurdish Council Armenia, Knyaz Hasanov has repeatedly spoken about the Armenian genocide. On March 10, 2009, said Hasanov to the Kurds who participated in massacres against the Armenians were separate Kurds and not the Kurdish nation. [17] Kongra-Gel (PKK) 20 Aug 2004
[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 ...
However, in the 19th and 20th century various travel logs tell of Kurdish Christian tribes, as well as Kurdish Muslim tribes who had substantial Christian populations living amongst them. A significant number of these were allegedly originally Armenian or Assyrian , [ 80 ] and it has been recorded that a small number of Christian traditions ...
A post shared on social media purportedly shows a recent video of Kurdish rebels shooting down a Turkish helicopter recently. Verdict: Misleading The video dates back to 2016. Fact Check: The ...
The Treaty of Lausanne that formed modern Turkey is still cherished by some but remains a disappointment for others including Kurds and Armenians who hoped for autonomous regions and justice for ...
When H. F. B. Lynch visited Eastern Anatolia in 1901, he wrote that the Circassians (referring to Chechens) [8] wore traditional clothing and that their living standards were far better than that of their Armenian and Kurdish neighbours. [12] In 1925, the Kurds of the newly proclaimed Republic of Turkey staged a rebellion led by Sheikh Said.
A. Bazzaz, turkmen.nl "The Kurdification procedure was soon implemented by the Kurdish leadership after toppling Saddam down in April 2003" Park, Bill, The Kurds and post-Saddam political arrangements in Iraq The Adelphi Papers (2005), Taylor & Francis: "The Kurds, who are intent on the further ‘Kurdification’ of Kirkuk before any census is ...