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The historical threatment from [[Armenia]] toward [[Kurds]], especially Muslim Kurds can be explained with that [[Armenia]] is dissapointed with the fact that some Kurdish Muslim tribes in [[northern Kurdistan]] participated on the [[Ottoman Empire]]'s side during the '''Armenian Genocide''', but it is also true that Kurds hid and actually saved Armenians from the massacres. |
The historical threatment from [[Armenia]] toward [[Kurds]], especially Muslim Kurds can be explained with that [[Armenia]] is dissapointed with the fact that some Kurdish Muslim tribes in [[northern Kurdistan]] participated on the [[Ottoman Empire]]'s side during the '''Armenian Genocide''', but it is also true that Kurds hid and actually saved Armenians from the massacres. |
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In the period between 1992-94 the population of the former [[Red Kurdistan]] region was forced to flee due to the [[Nagorno-Karabakh War]]. This autonomy was established by Lenin that was disbanded by Stalin who agreed to the [[Ataturk]]'s request (the significant part of inhabitants of Red Kurdistan deported to the Middle Asia and Kazakhstan).<ref>"In 1929 Stalin as an exchanging for the friendship and neighboorhood with Turkey agreed with the request of Mustafa Kemal to liquidate Red Kurdistan. Red Kurdistan was liquidated and the significant part of its population then were deported to Middle Asia and Kazakhstan" / Kazakhski Kurdistan, by Botagoz Seydakhmetova, http://www.np.kz/2003/42/mir.html</ref> [[Red Kurdistan]] was not actualy [[Kurdistan]] according to the Kurdish map and borders. |
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Armenia has effectively occupied the former region [[Red Kurdistan]] as it is used as a crucial [[Lachin corridor|land corridor]] that connects Armenia with the [[Nagorno-Karabakh Republic]]. |
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The journal Report-Kurdistan disclosed that about 20,000 Muslim Kurds were forced to leave their homes and flee Armenia. The aim of nationalist Armenians is apparently the forced exile of all Muslim Kurds.<ref>http://www.kurdistanreport.com/</ref>{{dubious}} |
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After 1988 when Armenia became involved in the independence of Karabagh from Azerbaijan, the only remaining obstacle to the creation of a homogenous Armenia was the presence on Armenian soil of about 60,000 Yezidi and Muslim Kurds. Yazdânism and Islam is two religion, not considered nationality. |
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Armenian nationalists set the two of these groups against each other to solve the problem, that the Yezidi Kurds was Yezidi one ethnic background and the Kurds another ethnicity. |
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Later on, the newspaper Punik was created by Armenian nationalist with alot of nationalistic and anti-Kurdish propaganda. The newspaper criticizes Yezidis who consider themselves Kurds. Take this statement for example: "If they believe they are Kurds, that's their problem. We know Yezidis as Yezidis because the classical literature we know makes a clear distinction between Kurds and Yezidis."{{fact}} |
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The Kurds in Armenia mainly live in the western parts of Armenia. The Kurds of the former Soviet Union first began writing Kurdish in the Armenian alphabet in the 1920s, followed by Latin in 1927, then Cyrillic in 1945, and now in both Cyrillic and Latin. The Kurds in Armenia established a Kurdish radio broadcast from Yerevan and the first Kurdish newspaper Riya Teze. Many famous Kurdish authors (included Amine Avdal) live in Armenia.
Yezidi Kurds in Armenia
The Armenian general Dro and the Yezidi Kurd Cengir Agha struggled together in 1918-1920 particular in the Battle of Bash-Aparan wich was a battle against the Turkish army on May 21, 1918 during the Turkish-Armenian War, when the Turkish invasion of the newly independent Democratic Republic of Armenia.
[[Image:Armenian+Andranik+Pasha+and+Cihangir+Axa.jpg|frame|right|right|Armenias national hero General Andranik together with the Yezidi-Kurd Cenghir Agha.
The U.S. Department of State human rights report from 2004 contains information about the Yezidi Kurds as subjects of harassment in Armenia.[citation needed]
The first Yezidi school ever opened in Armenia in 1920 and many Yezidi Kurds by voluntariness fought the Nagorno-Karabakh War with the Armenians.
Muslim Kurds in Armenia
The historical threatment from Armenia toward Kurds, especially Muslim Kurds can be explained with that Armenia is dissapointed with the fact that some Kurdish Muslim tribes in northern Kurdistan participated on the Ottoman Empire's side during the Armenian Genocide, but it is also true that Kurds hid and actually saved Armenians from the massacres.
In the period between 1992-94 the population of the former Red Kurdistan region was forced to flee due to the Nagorno-Karabakh War. This autonomy was established by Lenin that was disbanded by Stalin who agreed to the Ataturk's request (the significant part of inhabitants of Red Kurdistan deported to the Middle Asia and Kazakhstan).[1] Red Kurdistan was not actualy Kurdistan according to the Kurdish map and borders. Armenia has effectively occupied the former region Red Kurdistan as it is used as a crucial land corridor that connects Armenia with the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic.
References
- ^ "In 1929 Stalin as an exchanging for the friendship and neighboorhood with Turkey agreed with the request of Mustafa Kemal to liquidate Red Kurdistan. Red Kurdistan was liquidated and the significant part of its population then were deported to Middle Asia and Kazakhstan" / Kazakhski Kurdistan, by Botagoz Seydakhmetova, http://www.np.kz/2003/42/mir.html