2018年11月10日 · In contiguous Kurdistan, as well as in the many far-flung Kurdish settlements, mountains are the single most important natural phenomenon, and they have shaped the Kurdish history, people, tradition, and culture. Kurdish domains end abruptly where the plains begin. Northern Kurdistan has the highest average elevation. In the words of William ...

2025年1月16日 · The Kurdistan (“Land of the Kurds”) designation refers to an area of Kurdish settlement that roughly includes the mountain systems of the Zagros and the eastern extension of the Taurus. Since ancient times the area has been the home of the Kurds, a people whose ethnic origins are uncertain.

2021年7月30日 · It is here that arid desert climes of the Arabian Peninsula meet the temperate air of the Mediterranean. These variations make the region rich in plant and animal life. Take a tour through some of...

Kurds (Kurdish: کورد, romanized: Kurd) or Kurdish people are an Iranic [36] ethnic group native to the mountainous region of Kurdistan in West Asia, which spans southeastern Turkey, northwestern Iran, northern Iraq, and northern Syria. [37]

2021年4月4日 · In Kurdistan, more than 90% of sacred natural sites serve as burial grounds to the villages: Local people see them as an abode of their ancestors’ body and soul. Therefore, they strictly...

2025年1月31日 · A Kurd is any member of an ethnic and linguistic group concentrated in a contiguous area including southeastern Turkey, northeastern Syria, northern Iraq, and western Iran. Though the Kurds have long been one of the largest ethnic groups in the region and command some level of autonomy, they have never had a nation-state of their own.

Uncover the origins of the Kurds, their presence across the Middle East, and the ongoing battles for Kurdish freedom and recognition.

2021年5月30日 · A peripheral and marginalised nationality within a multinational though-Persian dominated Iranian society, the Kurdish people of Iranian Kurdistan (a region referred by the Kurds as Rojhelat/Eastern Kurdistan) have since the early twentieth century been subject to multifaceted and systematic discriminatory and exclusionary state policy in Iran.

2 天之前 · Then the People’s Democratic Party (HDP) emerged in the 2010s in Turkey as a powerful political force, successfully integrating Kurdish demands into a broader platform of democracy, pluralism ...

11 小时之前 · The fighting between the Kurds and the coalition known as the Syrian National Army has forced about 100,000 people to flee their homes. The conflict has major implications for Syria’s future as its new government, led by the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham former Islamist rebel group, tries to consolidate control and begin rebuilding after nearly 14 ...