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In 1916, about 300,000 Kurds were deported from Bitlis, Erzurum, Palu and Muş to Konya and Gaziantep during the winter and most perished in a famine. [11] When the liberal Freedom and Accord Party came to power in 1918 (to 1923), the few surviving deported Kurds were encouraged to return to their areas of origin. [12]
During the July 1937 deportation, approximately 1,325 Kurds were deported. [2] In March, 3,240 Kurds and Azerbaijanis were deported from Tbilisi. [3] In November 1944 the Kurds of Georgian SSR were also sent to the "special colonies", including those in Siberia, and were resettled there, as part of the deportation of the Meskhetian Turks, when ...
The Arabization of Kirkuk (Kurdish: بەعەرەبکردنی کەرکووک) [4] began in Ba'athist Iraq in the 1960s. In line with the wider Ba'athist Arabization campaigns in northern Iraq, the Iraqi government worked to alter the demographic composition of the Kirkuk Governorate by ethnically cleansing non-Arabs—mainly Kurds, but also Turkmen and Assyrians, among others—and replacing ...
The repressive measures carried out by the government against the Kurds after the 1975 Algiers Agreement led to renewed clashes between the Iraqi Army and Kurdish guerrillas in 1977. In 1978 and 1979, 600 Kurdish villages were burned down, and around 200,000 Kurds were deported to the other parts of the country.
The first Kurdish rebellion was launched in August 1914, before the Ottoman entry into World War I. From 1915 to 1916, further Kurdish rebellions took place in Botan, Dersim, and south of Kiğı. 1917 saw 2 additional waves of rebellion in summer and August, the latter of which received Russian military support. Besides direct military ...
The period of existence of the Kurdish administration was brief and did not last beyond 1929. Kurds subsequently faced many repressive measures, including deportations. As a result of the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh, many Kurdish areas have been destroyed and more than 150,000 Kurds have been deported by the Armenian forces since 1988. [154]
The Kurdish population in Kazakhstan has descended from Caucasian Kurds from Azerbaijan and Georgia, who have been deported to Central Asia in 1937, 1938 and 1944 by Joseph Stalin. Some of those Kurds that were deported to Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan later migrated north to Kazakhstan due to the Osh Riots in 1990.
The Kurds were an oppressed minority in the Safavid Empire and had a long conflict with them. Unlike Persians and Azerbaijanis, the Kurds viewed firearms as cowardly and often only used swords. [2] Much of the Kurdish population in the Safavid Empire that lived near the Ottoman borders was forcefully deported to other parts of Iran or killed.