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  2. Death of Alan Kurdi - Wikipedia

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    Alan Kurdi (born Alan Shenu), initially reported as Aylan Kurdi, [2] [3] was a two-year-old Syrian boy (initially reported as having been three years old) of Kurdish ethnic background [4] whose image made global headlines after he drowned on 2 September 2015 in the Mediterranean Sea along with his mother and brother.

  3. The Boy on the Beach - Wikipedia

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    The Boy on the Beach documents the Kurdi family's efforts to escape the Syrian civil war and the circumstances that led to the deaths of Alan, Ghalib Kurdi, and Rehanna (their mother), in 2015. [ 3 ] [ 1 ] [ 4 ] The book starts by describing the family's comfortable life in Damascus prior to the Syrian civil war. [ 5 ]

  4. Kurdi - Wikipedia

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    Kurdî pen name for the 19th century Kurdish poet Mustafa Bag Sahebqran; Curdi, a now-submerged village in Goa. The plural form of "Kurd" in the Russian language. Alan Kurdi, a three-year-old Kurdish Syrian boy whose image made global headlines after he drowned in the Mediterranean Sea. Kurdish (disambiguation)

  5. Deportations of Kurds (1916–1934) - Wikipedia

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    In Sheikh Said's village, all men were deported making a 14-year-old boy the oldest man there. The subsequent laws Settlement Law from May 1926 and Law Regarding the Transportation of Certain Persons from the Eastern Regions to the Western Provinces further allowed the government to deport Kurds. [ 16 ]

  6. Zaro Aga - Wikipedia

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    Zaro Aga (Turkish: Zaro Ağa; Kurdish: زارۆ ئاغا, romanized: Zaro Axa) was a Kurdish man who claimed to be one of the longest-living persons ever. He claimed birth on 16 February 1774 in Mutki, and died on 29 June 1934 [1] in Istanbul, Turkey.

  7. Sherko Bekas - Wikipedia

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    Sherko Fayaq Abdullah (Kurdish: شێرکۆ فایەق عەبدوڵا; 2 May 1940 – 4 August 2013), was a Kurdish poet. He was born on 2 May 1940 in Sulaymaniyah, Kurdistan Region in Iraq as the son of the poet Fayak Bekas. He is widely regarded as one of the poets who founded contemporary Kurdish poetry.

  8. Zyzz - Wikipedia

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    Shavershian was born in Moscow to Kurdish parents from Armenia's Kurdish minority. [11] [12] He was the youngest son of Maiane Iboian, who works in cardiology, and Sergei Shavershian. [3] He had one older brother, Said Shavershian, who is also known by the screen name "Chestbrah". [9] [13] In 1993, Shavershian and his family moved to Australia ...

  9. Kurds - Wikipedia

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    At about the same time, generational fissures gave birth to two new organizations: the National Liberation of Kurdistan and the Kurdistan Workers Party. [183] Kurdish boys in Diyarbakir. The words "Kurds", "Kurdistan", or "Kurdish" were officially banned by the Turkish government. [184]