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The 1934 deportations distinguished themselves by more precision. Besides the transfer of entire categories of humans, the Kemalists also micromanaged the deportation of certain individuals. [19] During the 1940s, most of the survivors of the deported Kurds received amnesty and returned to Kurdistan. [20]
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 8,694 Kurds were deported. [4] Most adult males were deported separately from ...
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 First Deportation of Kurds from Caucasia occurred in 1937, then leader of the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin did not trust the Kurdish population and ordered their forced Deportation to Kazakh SSR, Uzbek SSR and Kirghiz SSR. This group of Kurds from the first Deportation by Stalin came from Nakhchivan Autonomous SSR (Part of Azerbaijan SSR ...
In response to Kurdish rebellions, Ottoman authorities carried out deportations against Kurdish civilians. Most sources suggest that as many as 700,000 Kurds were deported during World War I, although there are no reliable statistics. [25] Safrastian (1945) estimates that half of these deported Kurds died. [25]
An estimated 300,000–500,000 [4] Feyli Kurds had been deported to Iran as a result of the persecution campaigns and at least 15,000 Feyli Kurds have disappeared. Their remains have not been found. [5] [6] In 2011, the Iraqi Parliament voted to recognize the 1980 massacre of Feyli Kurds under the regime of Saddam Hussein as genocide. [7]
In the late 1930s, Soviet authorities deported most of the Kurdish population of Azerbaijan and Armenia to Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan. [8] [2] The Kurds of Georgia also became victims of Joseph Stalin's Great Purge in 1944. [9] Years later, Kurds immigrated to Kazakhstan from the neighbouring countries, Uzbekistan and ...
Although most Kurds in Dersim remained in their home villages, [8] thousands were killed and many others were expelled to other parts of Turkey. [9] Twenty tons of “Chloracetophenon, Iperit and so on” were ordered and used in the massacre. [10] [11] [5]