Orang Kurdi

Kurdi
	Salahuddin • Ahmad Xani • Sherefxan Bitlisi • Feleknas Uca • Jalal Talabani
Jumlah penduduk
	30 - 35 juta
Kawasan ramai penduduk
Turki	11.4 hingga 17.5 juta,
Iran	4.8 hingga 7 juta
Iraq	4 hingga 6.5 juta
Syria	1.6 juta
Afghanistan	200,000
Azerbaijan	150,000
Israel	100,000
Jerman	500,000 -800,000
Perancis	120,000
United Kingdom	100,000
Bahasa
	bahasa Kurdi; Dalam bentuk yang berbeza: Sorani, Kurmanji dan Fayli dialek bahagian selatan
Agama
	Majoriti Islam Sunnah; juga Syiah, Yazidisme, Yarsan, Judaism, Kristian
Kumpulan etnik berkaitan
	lain-lain orang Iran; (Talysh · Baluch · Gilak · Lurs · Parsi)

Orang Kurdi merupakan satu etnik yang menganggap diri mereka sebagai penduduk asli satu wilayah yang sering dirujuk sebagai Kurdistan, iaitu satu wilayah yang meliputi sebahagian Iran, Iraq, Syria dan Turki. Penduduk Kurdish juga dapat ditemui di Lebanon, Armenia, Azerbaijan dan sejak beberapa dekad lepas, di beberapa negara Eropah serta Amerika Syarikat. Kaum Kurdi ini memiliki hubungan yang rapat dengan orang Iran. Mereka menggunakan bahasa Kurdi, satu cabang bahasa India-Eropah daripada cabang bahasa Iran.

Berdasarkan sejarah, bangsa Kurdi tidak pernah berhenti daripada memperjuangkan kemerdekaannya, dan kerana sebab ini telah berperang melawan Sumeria, Asyur, Parsi, Mongolia, Tentera Salib Eropah serta Turki. Kaum ini yang mempunyai anggaran jumlah penduduk seramai 30 juta orang merupakan salah satu kelompok etnik terbesar di dunia yang tidak memiliki negara bangsa yang tersendiri. Pada abad ke-20, Turki, Iran dan Iraq telah menghapuskan siri-siri pemberontakan yang dilakukan oleh kaum Kurdi.

Rujukan

^ Konda Poll gives a figure of about 11.4 million, s.v. [1]
^ CIA World Factbook gives about 15.3 million (20% Kurds out of 76.8 million total population) (2008 est.)
^ Juvenile Nonfiction, “ The Handbook of Middle East ”, Publisher: 21st Century, 2002. pg 144:”About 20 percent of Turkey ’s population is Kurdish.”
^ Kemal Kirisci, Gareth M. Winrow, “The Kurdish Question and Turkey ”, Routledge, 1997. pg 119: “According to Turgut Ozal there were 12 million Kurds in Turkey . .. Van Bruissen has argued that a ‘reasonable and even conservative’ estimate for the size of Kurdish population in 1975 was 7.5 millions, which amounts to 19 percent of the population”
^ Sandra Mackey , “The reckoning: Iraq and the legacy of Saddam”, W.W. Norton and Company, 2002. Excerpt from pg 350: “As much as 25% of Turkey is Kurdish.”
^ ^a ^b ^c “Beverley Milton-Edwards, “Contemporary politics in the Middle East” Polity, 2006. pg 231: “They form a population in all four states, making 23 percent in Turkey, 23 percent in Iraq, 10 percent in Iran and 8 percent in Syria (Mcdowell, 2003, p 3-4).”
^ Estimate based on 7% of 68,688,433: World Factbook, s.v. Iran;
^ Estimate based on 15% to 20% of 26,783,383: World Factbook, s.v. Iraq; Encyclopedia of the Orient, s.v. Iraq: Religions and Peoples.
^ http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/3580.htm
^ ^a ^b ^c The Kurdish Diaspora, Institut Kurde de Paris (Paris: Institut Kurde de Paris, 2006), http://www.institutkurde.org/en/kurdorama/.
^ Lokman I. Meho, The Kurds and Kurdistan: A General Background, in Kurdish Culture and Society: An Annotated Bibliography. Comp. Lokman I. Meho & Kelly Maglaughlin (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2001), p. 4, viewable on Google Books
^ ^a ^b Ralat petik: Tag <ref> tidak sah; tiada teks disediakan bagi rujukan yang bernama coucileu
^ Kurds in the UK, BBC News 9 December 2008

Pautan luar

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Isu-isu Kurdish di Turki

[1] Konda Poll gives a figure of about 11.4 million, s.v. [1]

[ciaturkey-2] CIA World Factbook gives about 15.3 million (20% Kurds out of 76.8 million total population) (2008 est.)

[3] Juvenile Nonfiction, “ The Handbook of Middle East ”, Publisher: 21st Century, 2002. pg 144:”About 20 percent of Turkey ’s population is Kurdish.”

[4] Kemal Kirisci, Gareth M. Winrow, “The Kurdish Question and Turkey ”, Routledge, 1997. pg 119: “According to Turgut Ozal there were 12 million Kurds in Turkey . .. Van Bruissen has argued that a ‘reasonable and even conservative’ estimate for the size of Kurdish population in 1975 was 7.5 millions, which amounts to 19 percent of the population”

[5] Sandra Mackey , “The reckoning: Iraq and the legacy of Saddam”, W.W. Norton and Company, 2002. Excerpt from pg 350: “As much as 25% of Turkey is Kurdish.”

[Beverley-6] “Beverley Milton-Edwards, “Contemporary politics in the Middle East” Polity, 2006. pg 231: “They form a population in all four states, making 23 percent in Turkey, 23 percent in Iraq, 10 percent in Iran and 8 percent in Syria (Mcdowell, 2003, p 3-4).”

[7] Estimate based on 7% of 68,688,433: World Factbook, s.v. Iran;

[8] Estimate based on 15% to 20% of 26,783,383: World Factbook, s.v. Iraq; Encyclopedia of the Orient, s.v. Iraq: Religions and Peoples.

[9] ttp://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/3580.htm

[kurdorama-10] The Kurdish Diaspora, Institut Kurde de Paris (Paris: Institut Kurde de Paris, 2006), http://www.institutkurde.org/en/kurdorama/.

[11] Lokman I. Meho, The Kurds and Kurdistan: A General Background, in Kurdish Culture and Society: An Annotated Bibliography. Comp. Lokman I. Meho & Kelly Maglaughlin (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2001), p. 4, viewable on Google Books

[coucileu-12] Ralat petik: Tag <ref> tidak sah; tiada teks disediakan bagi rujukan yang bernama coucileu

[13] Kurds in the UK, BBC News 9 December 2008

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