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The Iraqi Kurdish people comprise the largest proportion of ethnic Kurds living in the US. The first wave of Kurdish immigrants arrived as refugees during the 1970s as a result of the Iraqi–Kurdish conflict. A second wave of Kurdish immigrants arrived in the 1990s fleeing Saddam Hussein's genocidal Anfal Campaign in northern Iraq.
Kurdish men (3 C) Kurdish women (5 C, 2 P) + Kurdish people by country of citizenship ... History of the Kurdish people (8 C, 55 P) K. Kurdish refugees (10 P) L.
Long before the United States announced its plans in 2015 to allow women into combat roles, Kurdish men and women were fighting alongside each other. 14 photos show the remarkable Kurdish women in ...
Kurdish women (Kurdish: ژنی کوردی, romanized: Jnî Kurdî) traditionally had more rights than those living in other Islamic social and political systems, [1] although traditional Kurdish culture, as most of traditional societies in the Middle East, is patriarchal, and in Kurdish families and communities, it has been "natural" for men to enjoy predominant power. [2]
In general, Kurdish women's rights and equality have improved in the 20th and 21st centuries due to progressive movements within Kurdish society. However, despite the progress, Kurdish and international women's rights organizations still report problems related to gender equality , forced marriages , honor killings , and in Iraq's Erbil , also ...
Soviet Yazidis were able to establish the first Kurdish theatre and radio station in history, in addition, the first Kurdish Latin-based alphabet was created by the Yazidi intellectual Erebê Şemo, who was also responsible for writing the first-ever Kurmanji novel in 1929 titled "Şivanê Kurmanca" (The Kurdish/Kurmanji Shepherd). [167] [40]
Kurds took part in the partisan movement behind German lines. Karaseva received both the Hero of the Soviet Union medal and the medal Partisan of the Fatherland War (First Degree) for organising partisans to fight against the Germans in Volhynia Oblast in Ukraine. Kurds took part in the advance into Hungary and the invasion of Japanese-held ...