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However, some Yazidis in Armenia acknowledge their ties with Kurds and a minority identify themselves as Kurds (particularly those that have received a higher education). Most of those in Armenia who self-identify as Kurds in censuses are from the Yazidi community, and very few Muslim Kurds remain in
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in the late 1980s, many Muslim Kurds fled Armenia together with Azerbaijanis, with whom they were connected by cultural, religious and often marital ties. Up to 18,000 Kurds left Armenia for Azerbaijan (some of which then emigrated to Russia) or Russia in this period. A particularly large community
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dynasty, which ruled over parts of modern-day Armenia from the 10th to 12th centuries, is the first real evidence of Kurdish presence in the region, which was likely small in medieval times. Kurdish tribes began to migrate from the south to the territory of modern-day Armenia, particularly onto the
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For most of the Soviet period, Yazidis and Kurds in Armenia were not treated as distinct groups and were both counted as Kurds. According to one scholar, Yazidi intellectuals played a major role in the development of Kurdish studies and literature in Soviet Armenia, as well as the creation of a
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of 1918–1920, the Kurds received political rights: a Kurdish representative was elected to the Armenian parliament and some Kurds became officers of the Armenian Army and organized Kurdish volunteer units. Conversely, some Kurds, particularly in the former
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and Hasan Tamoyan, began efforts to assert a separate Yazidi ethnic identity and demand acknowledgment as such from the government. Their followers reject any connection with Kurds and refer to the dialect of Kurmanji spoken by Yazidis as
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According to Shakro Mgoyan, the director of the Center of Kurdish Research, the situation with Kurds in Armenia today is normal and there is not any open intolerance. The Election Code of Armenia reserves one seat in the
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by the turn of the century. In the second half of the 19th century and the early 20th century, Yazidis settled in the Russian-controlled South Caucasus, fleeing religious persecution in the Ottoman Empire.
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The number includes 186,000 Azerbaijanis, 18,000 Muslim Kurds, and 3,500 Russians who left Armenia for Azerbaijan in 1988–1989 (around 10,000 more Kurds and Russians left Armenia for Russia at the same
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The medieval historian Ibn Athir relates a passage from another commander: "...both you and Saladin are Kurds and you will not let power pass into the hands of the Turks." Minorsky (1957).
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are guaranteed for representatives of the country's ethnic minorities, of which one seat is reserved for a representative of the Yazidi community and one seat for the Kurdish community.
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secular Kurdish national identity. Starting in the late 1980s, some of the Yazidi community's religious and political leaders, such as
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were forcibly deported to Kazakhstan, other Central Asian republics and Siberia. Kurdish-language radio in Armenia, the newspaper
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in 1945 (both Cyrillic and Latin are used now). In 1925 more than fifty schools were opened for the Kurds of Armenia. The
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Leezenberg, Michiel (2015). "Soviet Kurdology and Kurdish Orientalism". In Kemper, Michael; Conermann, Stephan (eds.).
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are counted as separate ethnic groups in Armenia (on the relationship between Yazidis and Kurdish identity, see
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was the main center of Kurdish literature and the second center of Kurdish studies in the Soviet Union after
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Kurdish Culture and Society: An Annotated Bibliography - P. 22. by Lokman I. Meho, Kelly L. Maglaughlin
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and other Kurdish institutions were closed down in 1937, although they were revived in the 1950s.
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to a representative of the Kurdish minority and one for a representative of the Yazidi minority.
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of Kurds from Armenia and neighboring countries (both Muslims and Yazidis) developed in
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is the leader of the Kurdish community of Armenia and represents the community in the
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districts of Azerbaijan was forced to flee due to the Armenian invasion during the
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used the motives of Kurdish legend in his famous poem "Siamanto and Khjezare".
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pioneered Kurdish studies in the Russian Empire. Prominent Armenian composer
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Gurdjieff and Music: The Gurdjieff/de Hartmann Piano Music and Its Esoteric
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Rediscovering Kurdistan's Cultures and Identities: The Call of the Cricket
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collected many Armenian, Kurdish, and Turkish folk songs. Armenian poet
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The Republic of Armenia, Vol. II: From Versailles to London, 1919–1920
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Rewan is ultimately derived from the name of Armenia's capital,
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Armenian census data likewise refers to a "Yazidi language" (
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Black Garden: Armenia and Azerbaijan through Peace and War
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Encyclopedia of World Cultures - P 225. by David Levinson
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in Armenian) separately from the "Kurdish language" (
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Kurdish and Yazidi population in Armenia (2001-2014)
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