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|population = 6,097 (0.1%)<br>(1995 census)<ref name=turkmenistan>{{cite web|script-title=ru:Итоги всеобщей переписи населения Туркменистана по национальному составу в 1995 году.|url=http://asgabat.net/turkmenistan/itogi-vseobschei-perepisi-naselenija-turkmenistana-po-nacionalnomu-sostavu-v-1995-godu.html|work=asgabat.net|publisher=asgabat.net|accessdate=2 December 2012|language=Russian}}</ref><br>50,000<br>(estimate)<ref name="Vanly">Ismet Chériff Vanly, "The Kurds in the Soviet Union", in: Philip G. Kreyenbroek & S. Sperl (eds.), The Kurds: A Contemporary Overview (London: Routledge, 1992). pg 164: Table based on 1990 estimates: Turkmenistan (50,000)</ref>
|population = 6,097 (0.1%)<br>(1995 census)<ref name=turkmenistan>{{cite web|script-title=ru:Итоги всеобщей переписи населения Туркменистана по национальному составу в 1995 году.|url=http://asgabat.net/turkmenistan/itogi-vseobschei-perepisi-naselenija-turkmenistana-po-nacionalnomu-sostavu-v-1995-godu.html|publisher=asgabat.net|access-date=2 December 2012|language=ru|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120709093436/http://asgabat.net/turkmenistan/itogi-vseobschei-perepisi-naselenija-turkmenistana-po-nacionalnomu-sostavu-v-1995-godu.html|archive-date=9 July 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref><br>50,000<br>(estimate)<ref name="Vanly">Ismet Chériff Vanly, "The Kurds in the Soviet Union", in: Philip G. Kreyenbroek & S. Sperl (eds.), The Kurds: A Contemporary Overview (London: Routledge, 1992). pg 164: Table based on 1990 estimates: Turkmenistan (50,000)</ref>
|popplace = [[Ashgabat]], [[Baýramaly]], Firjuza, Kara Kala, [[Mary, Turkmenistan|Mary]] & near the [[Atrek River]] and the [[Kopet Dag]].<ref name=eki.ee>{{cite web|title=Kurds|url=http://www.eki.ee/books/redbook/kurds.shtml|publisher=Eesti Keele Instituut|accessdate=2 December 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=An Ethnohistorical Dictionary of the Russian and Soviet Empires|year=1994|url=https://books.google.dk/books?id=CquTz6ps5YgC&pg=PA409&lpg=PA409&dq=&source=bl&ots=DwAM7ocZ6l&sig=GCsSYLem50tE2Fd86JKaeBJXmg8&hl=da&sa=X&ei=jpu7UO3LOOqw0QWq94CQAg&ved=0CEgQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=%20&f=false|author=James Stuart Olson|accessdate=2 December 2012|page=409}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=The Kurds: A Contemporary Overview|year=1992|url=https://books.google.dk/books?id=DkI1u4ta5w4C&pg=RA1-PA163&lpg=RA1-PA163&dq=&&source=bl&ots=Qx8pS-4qXp&sig=17iWhhEcE9tp5WsuPSNhLw--SnY&hl=da&sa=X&ei=ttW7UKvKCajD0QWP8oC4Bg&ved=0CE0Q6AEwAw#v=onepage&q&f=false|author1=Philip G. Kreyenbroek |author2=Stefan Sperl |accessdate=2 December 2012|page=163}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=A Modern History of the Kurds: Third Edition|year=1996|isbn=978 1 85043 416 0|url=https://books.google.dk/books?id=dgDi9qFT41oC&pg=PA491&lpg=PA491&dq=&source=bl&ots=CaA9d3XcJO&sig=4uJl31XuV4bCFV4PNtsgUKTROWQ&hl=en&sa=X&ei=c-G8UN26C43itQbb0YDoDA&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=&f=false|accessdate=3 December 2012|page=491}}</ref>
|popplace = [[Ashgabat]], [[Baýramaly]], Firjuza, Kara Kala, [[Mary, Turkmenistan|Mary]] & near the [[Atrek River]] and the [[Kopet Dag]].<ref name=eki.ee>{{cite web|title=Kurds|url=http://www.eki.ee/books/redbook/kurds.shtml|publisher=Eesti Keele Instituut|access-date=2 December 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=An Ethnohistorical Dictionary of the Russian and Soviet Empires|year=1994|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CquTz6ps5YgC&q=+&pg=PA409|author=James Stuart Olson|access-date=2 December 2012|page=409|publisher=Bloomsbury Academic |isbn=9780313274978}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=The Kurds: A Contemporary Overview|publisher=Routledge|year=1992|url=https://archive.org/details/kurds00pkre|url-access=registration|author1=Philip G. Kreyenbroek |author2=Stefan Sperl |access-date=2 December 2012|page=[https://archive.org/details/kurds00pkre/page/163 163]|isbn=9780415072656}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=A Modern History of the Kurds: Third Edition|year=1996|isbn=978-1-85043-416-0|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dgDi9qFT41oC&pg=PA491|access-date=3 December 2012|page=491|last1=McDowall|first1=David|publisher=Bloomsbury Academic }}</ref>
|languages = [[Kurdish language|Kurdish]], [[Turkmen language|Turkmen]], [[Russian language|Russian]]
|languages = [[Kurdish language|Kurdish]] ([[Kurmanji]]), [[Turkmen language|Turkmen]], [[Russian language|Russian]]
|religions = [[Islam]]<ref name="religion">{{cite book|title=The Peoples of the USSR: An Ethnographic Handbook|year=1984|url=https://books.google.dk/books?id=WKrN10g4whAC&pg=PA117&dq=&hl=da&sa=X&ei=h6C7UPzULqnW0QXK7YDgDw&ved=0CDMQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q&f=false|author=Ronald Wixman|accessdate=2 December 2012|page=117}}</ref>
|religions = [[Islam]]<ref name="religion">{{cite book|title=The Peoples of the USSR: An Ethnographic Handbook|year=1984|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WKrN10g4whAC&pg=PA117|author=Ronald Wixman|access-date=2 December 2012|page=117|publisher=M.E. Sharpe |isbn=9780765637093}}</ref>
|related = other [[Iranian peoples]]
|related = other [[Iranian peoples]], [[Kurdish diaspora]]
}}
}}
{{Kurds}}
The '''Kurds in Turkmenistan''' form a part of the historically significant [[Kurdish population]] in the [[Post-Soviet states|post-Soviet space]], and encompass people born in or residing in [[Turkmenistan]] who are of Kurdish origin. In the 17th century, [[Abbas I of Persia]] and [[Nader Shah]] settled Kurdish tribes from [[Khuzestan]] alongside the Iranian-Turkmen border.<ref name="dogar"/> More Kurds arrived to Turkmenistan in the 19th century to find unclaimed land and to escape starvation.<ref name="eki.ee"/>


After the dissolution of [[Kurdistan Uyezd]], many Kurds were deported to Turkmenistan.<ref>{{cite book|title=Caucasus Chronicles: Nation-Building and Diplomacy in Armenia, 1993-1994|year=2002|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cELfINDAH0oC|author=Leonidas Themistocles Chrysanthopoulos|publisher=Gomidas Institute |isbn=9781884630057|access-date=2 December 2012}}</ref> [[Stalin]] deported many Kurds from [[Caucasus]] to Turkmenistan in 1937 and again in 1944.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Caucasian Knot: The History & Politics of Nagorno-Karabagh|year=1994|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OUlnYdOHJ3wC&pg=PA141|author1=Levon Chorbajian |author2=Patrik Donabedi︠a︡n |author3=Claude Mutafian |access-date=2 December 2012|page=141|publisher=Zed Books |isbn=9781856492881}}</ref> Since the 1980s, The Kurds of Turkmenistan have been subject to government sponsored assimilation programmes.<ref name="dogar">{{cite web|title=Жизнь курдской общины в Туркменистане [The life of the Kurdish community in Turkmenistan]|url=http://www.gundogar.org/?0221042238000000000000013000000|work=Gündogar|access-date=2 December 2012|language=ru}}</ref> Under [[Soviet Turkmenistan]] the Kurds had their own newspapers and schools, but since the independence of Turkmenistan, the Turkmen President [[Saparmurat Niyazov]] had closed almost all non-Turkmen schools.<ref name="dogar"/> The majority of the Turkmen Kurds are followers of Shia Islam, with a small minority of Sunni Islam followers.<ref name="religion"/>
'''Kurds in Turkmenistan''' refers to people born in or residing in Turkmenistan who are of Kurdish origin. In the 17th century, [[Abbas I of Persia]] and [[Nader Shah]] settled Kurdish tribes from [[Khuzestan]] alongside the Iranian-Turkmen border.<ref name="dogar"/> More Kurds arrived to Turkmenistan in the 19th century to find unclaimed land and to escape starvation.<ref name="eki.ee"/>

After the dissolution of [[Kurdistan Uyezd]], many Kurds were deported to Turkmenistan.<ref>{{cite book|title=Caucasus Chronicles: Nation-Building and Diplomacy in Armenia, 1993-1994|year=2002|url=https://books.google.dk/books?id=cELfINDAH0oC&printsec=frontcover&dq=&hl=da&sa=X&ei=cqa7UJKLO8qX0QWQkoHYCA&ved=0CDAQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false|author=Leonidas Themistocles Chrysanthopoulos|accessdate=2 December 2012}}</ref> [[Stalin]] deported many Kurds from [[Caucasus]] to Turkmenistan in 1937 and again in 1944.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Caucasian Knot: The History & Politics of Nagorno-Karabagh|year=1994|url=https://books.google.dk/books?id=OUlnYdOHJ3wC&pg=PA141&lpg=PA141&dq=&source=bl&ots=v0E8j8J9Dp&sig=QIvn1yHbTXq7Jx3rk2o9SALNtfE&hl=da&sa=X&ei=4p27UJ2zNqmW0QWrmoGQAg&ved=0CGAQ6AEwBg#v=onepage&q=&f=false|author1=Levon Chorbajian |author2=Patrik Donabedi︠a︡n |author3=Claude Mutafian |accessdate=2 December 2012|page=141}}</ref> Since the 1980s, The Kurds of Turkmenistan have been subject to government sponsored assimilation programmes.<ref name="dogar">{{cite web|title=Жизнь курдской общины в Туркменистане [The life of the Kurdish community in Turkmenistan]|url=http://www.gundogar.org/?0221042238000000000000013000000|work=Gündogar|accessdate=2 December 2012|language=Russian}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=The Kurds: A Concise History and Fact Book|year=1992|url=https://books.google.dk/books?id=I9mr6OgLjBoC&pg=PA180&dq=&hl=da&sa=X&ei=h6C7UPzULqnW0QXK7YDgDw&ved=0CDYQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q&f=false|author=Mehrdad R. Izady|accessdate=2 December 2012|page=180}}</ref> Under [[Soviet Turkmenistan]] the Kurds had their own newspapers and schools, but since the independence of Turkmenistan, the Turkmen President [[Saparmurat Niyazov]] had closed almost all non-Turkmen schools.<ref name="dogar"/> The majority of the Turkmen Kurds are followers of Sunni Islam, with a small minority of Shia Islam followers.<ref name="religion"/>


Despite that the History of current Kurds in Turkmenistan started in 17th Century. The relations and first Contacts between Kurds and Turkmens started with the arrival of the Seljuks in the Middle East.
Despite that the History of current Kurds in Turkmenistan started in 17th Century. The relations and first Contacts between Kurds and Turkmens started with the arrival of the Seljuks in the Middle East.
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| 1926<ref>{{cite web|script-title=ru:Всесоюзная перепись населения 1926 года. Национальный состав населения по республикам СССР|url=http://demoscope.ru/weekly/ssp/ussr_nac_26.php?reg=7|accessdate=2 December 2012|language=Russian}}</ref> || 2,308 || In the [[Turkmen SSR]]
| 1926<ref>{{cite web|script-title=ru:Всесоюзная перепись населения 1926 года. Национальный состав населения по республикам СССР|url=http://demoscope.ru/weekly/ssp/ussr_nac_26.php?reg=7|access-date=2 December 2012|language=ru}}</ref> || 2,308 || In the [[Turkmen SSR]]
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| 1936<ref>{{cite web|script-title=ru:Всесоюзная перепись населения 1939 года. Национальный состав населения по республикам СССР|url=http://demoscope.ru/weekly/ssp/sng_nac_39.php?reg=7|publisher=Demoscope.ru|accessdate=2 December 2012|language=Russian}}</ref> || 1,954 || In the [[Turkmen SSR]]
| 1936<ref>{{cite web|script-title=ru:Всесоюзная перепись населения 1939 года. Национальный состав населения по республикам СССР|url=http://demoscope.ru/weekly/ssp/sng_nac_39.php?reg=7|publisher=Demoscope.ru|access-date=2 December 2012|language=ru}}</ref> || 1,954 || In the [[Turkmen SSR]]
|-
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| 1959<ref>{{cite web|script-title=ru:Всесоюзная перепись населения 1959 года. Национальный состав населения по республикам СССР|url=http://demoscope.ru/weekly/ssp/sng_nac_59.php?reg=12|publisher=Demoscope.ru|accessdate=2 December 2012|language=Russian}}</ref> || 2,263 || In the [[Turkmen SSR]]
| 1959<ref>{{cite web|script-title=ru:Всесоюзная перепись населения 1959 года. Национальный состав населения по республикам СССР|url=http://demoscope.ru/weekly/ssp/sng_nac_59.php?reg=12|publisher=Demoscope.ru|access-date=2 December 2012|language=ru}}</ref> || 2,263 || In the [[Turkmen SSR]]
|-
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| 1970<ref>{{cite web|script-title=ru:Всесоюзная перепись населения 1970 года. Национальный состав населения по республикам СССР|url=http://demoscope.ru/weekly/ssp/sng_nac_70.php?reg=14|publisher=Demoscope.ru|accessdate=2 December 2012|language=Russian}}</ref> || 2,933 || In the [[Turkmen SSR]]
| 1970<ref>{{cite web|script-title=ru:Всесоюзная перепись населения 1970 года. Национальный состав населения по республикам СССР|url=http://demoscope.ru/weekly/ssp/sng_nac_70.php?reg=14|publisher=Demoscope.ru|access-date=2 December 2012|language=ru}}</ref> || 2,933 || In the [[Turkmen SSR]]
|-
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| 1979<ref>{{cite web|script-title=ru:Всесоюзная перепись населения 1979 года. Национальный состав населения по республикам СССР|url=http://demoscope.ru/weekly/ssp/sng_nac_79.php?reg=14|publisher=Demoscope.ru|accessdate=2 December 2012|language=Russian}}</ref> || 3,521 || In the [[Turkmen SSR]]
| 1979<ref>{{cite web|script-title=ru:Всесоюзная перепись населения 1979 года. Национальный состав населения по республикам СССР|url=http://demoscope.ru/weekly/ssp/sng_nac_79.php?reg=14|publisher=Demoscope.ru|access-date=2 December 2012|language=ru}}</ref> || 3,521 || In the [[Turkmen SSR]]
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| 1989<ref>{{cite web|script-title=ru:Всесоюзная перепись населения 1989 года. Национальный состав населения по республикам СССР |url=http://demoscope.ru/weekly/ssp/sng_nac_89.php?reg=14 |publisher=Demoscope.ru |accessdate=2 December 2012 |language=Russian |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120314043707/http://demoscope.ru/weekly/ssp/sng_nac_89.php?reg=14 |archivedate=14 March 2012 |df= }}</ref> || 4,387 || In the [[Turkmen SSR]]
| 1989<ref>{{cite web|script-title=ru:Всесоюзная перепись населения 1989 года. Национальный состав населения по республикам СССР |url=http://demoscope.ru/weekly/ssp/sng_nac_89.php?reg=14 |publisher=Demoscope.ru |access-date=2 December 2012 |language=ru |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120314043707/http://demoscope.ru/weekly/ssp/sng_nac_89.php?reg=14 |archive-date=14 March 2012 }}</ref> || 4,387 || In the [[Turkmen SSR]]
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| 1995<ref name="turkmenistan"/> || 6,097 (0.1%) || In Turkmenistan
| 1995<ref name="turkmenistan"/> || 6,097 (0.1%) || In Turkmenistan
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==See also==
==See also==
{{Portal|Kurdistan|Turkmenistan}}
* [[Kurdish diaspora]]
* [[Ethnic groups in Turkmenistan]]
* [[Kurds of Khorasan]]
* [[Kurds of Khorasan]]


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[[Category:Ethnic groups in Turkmenistan]]
[[Category:Ethnic groups in Turkmenistan]]
[[Category:Kurdish diaspora]]
[[Category:Kurdish diaspora by country|Turkmenistan]]
[[Category:Ethnic groups in Asia]]
[[Category:Ethnic groups in Central Asia]]

Latest revision as of 07:27, 26 May 2024

Turkmen Kurds
Total population
6,097 (0.1%)
(1995 census)[1]
50,000
(estimate)[2]
Regions with significant populations
Ashgabat, Baýramaly, Firjuza, Kara Kala, Mary & near the Atrek River and the Kopet Dag.[3][4][5][6]
Languages
Kurdish (Kurmanji), Turkmen, Russian
Religion
Islam[7]
Related ethnic groups
other Iranian peoples, Kurdish diaspora

The Kurds in Turkmenistan form a part of the historically significant Kurdish population in the post-Soviet space, and encompass people born in or residing in Turkmenistan who are of Kurdish origin. In the 17th century, Abbas I of Persia and Nader Shah settled Kurdish tribes from Khuzestan alongside the Iranian-Turkmen border.[8] More Kurds arrived to Turkmenistan in the 19th century to find unclaimed land and to escape starvation.[3]

After the dissolution of Kurdistan Uyezd, many Kurds were deported to Turkmenistan.[9] Stalin deported many Kurds from Caucasus to Turkmenistan in 1937 and again in 1944.[10] Since the 1980s, The Kurds of Turkmenistan have been subject to government sponsored assimilation programmes.[8] Under Soviet Turkmenistan the Kurds had their own newspapers and schools, but since the independence of Turkmenistan, the Turkmen President Saparmurat Niyazov had closed almost all non-Turkmen schools.[8] The majority of the Turkmen Kurds are followers of Shia Islam, with a small minority of Sunni Islam followers.[7]

Despite that the History of current Kurds in Turkmenistan started in 17th Century. The relations and first Contacts between Kurds and Turkmens started with the arrival of the Seljuks in the Middle East.

Population[edit]

Year Population Note
1926[11] 2,308 In the Turkmen SSR
1936[12] 1,954 In the Turkmen SSR
1959[13] 2,263 In the Turkmen SSR
1970[14] 2,933 In the Turkmen SSR
1979[15] 3,521 In the Turkmen SSR
1989[16] 4,387 In the Turkmen SSR
1995[1] 6,097 (0.1%) In Turkmenistan

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b Итоги всеобщей переписи населения Туркменистана по национальному составу в 1995 году. (in Russian). asgabat.net. Archived from the original on 9 July 2012. Retrieved 2 December 2012.
  2. ^ Ismet Chériff Vanly, "The Kurds in the Soviet Union", in: Philip G. Kreyenbroek & S. Sperl (eds.), The Kurds: A Contemporary Overview (London: Routledge, 1992). pg 164: Table based on 1990 estimates: Turkmenistan (50,000)
  3. ^ a b "Kurds". Eesti Keele Instituut. Retrieved 2 December 2012.
  4. ^ James Stuart Olson (1994). An Ethnohistorical Dictionary of the Russian and Soviet Empires. Bloomsbury Academic. p. 409. ISBN 9780313274978. Retrieved 2 December 2012.
  5. ^ Philip G. Kreyenbroek; Stefan Sperl (1992). The Kurds: A Contemporary Overview. Routledge. p. 163. ISBN 9780415072656. Retrieved 2 December 2012.
  6. ^ McDowall, David (1996). A Modern History of the Kurds: Third Edition. Bloomsbury Academic. p. 491. ISBN 978-1-85043-416-0. Retrieved 3 December 2012.
  7. ^ a b Ronald Wixman (1984). The Peoples of the USSR: An Ethnographic Handbook. M.E. Sharpe. p. 117. ISBN 9780765637093. Retrieved 2 December 2012.
  8. ^ a b c "Жизнь курдской общины в Туркменистане [The life of the Kurdish community in Turkmenistan]". Gündogar (in Russian). Retrieved 2 December 2012.
  9. ^ Leonidas Themistocles Chrysanthopoulos (2002). Caucasus Chronicles: Nation-Building and Diplomacy in Armenia, 1993-1994. Gomidas Institute. ISBN 9781884630057. Retrieved 2 December 2012.
  10. ^ Levon Chorbajian; Patrik Donabedi︠a︡n; Claude Mutafian (1994). The Caucasian Knot: The History & Politics of Nagorno-Karabagh. Zed Books. p. 141. ISBN 9781856492881. Retrieved 2 December 2012.
  11. ^ Всесоюзная перепись населения 1926 года. Национальный состав населения по республикам СССР (in Russian). Retrieved 2 December 2012.
  12. ^ Всесоюзная перепись населения 1939 года. Национальный состав населения по республикам СССР (in Russian). Demoscope.ru. Retrieved 2 December 2012.
  13. ^ Всесоюзная перепись населения 1959 года. Национальный состав населения по республикам СССР (in Russian). Demoscope.ru. Retrieved 2 December 2012.
  14. ^ Всесоюзная перепись населения 1970 года. Национальный состав населения по республикам СССР (in Russian). Demoscope.ru. Retrieved 2 December 2012.
  15. ^ Всесоюзная перепись населения 1979 года. Национальный состав населения по республикам СССР (in Russian). Demoscope.ru. Retrieved 2 December 2012.
  16. ^ Всесоюзная перепись населения 1989 года. Национальный состав населения по республикам СССР (in Russian). Demoscope.ru. Archived from the original on 14 March 2012. Retrieved 2 December 2012.