Kurds: Difference between revisions

'''Kurds''' ({{lang-ku|کورد|rtl=yes}}, {{lang|ku-Latn|Kurd}}) or '''Kurdish people''' are an [[Iranian peoples|Iranian]]<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |last1=Bois|first1=Th.|last2=Minorsky|first2=V.|last3=MacKenzie|first3=D.N.|encyclopedia = Encyclopedia of Islam, Second Edition|publisher=Brill Online|title=Kurds, Kurdistān|date=24 April 2012|volume=5|url=https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/encyclopaedia-of-islam-2/kurds-kurdistan-COM_0544?s.num=53&s.f.s2_parent=s.f.book.encyclopaedia-of-islam-2&s.start=40&s.q=nihawand|quote=The Kurds, an Iranian people of the Near East, live at the junction of (...)|page=439}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |first=John A. |last=Shoup |title=Ethnic Groups of Africa and the Middle East: An Encyclopedia |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GN5yv3-U6goC&pg=PA159 |year=2011 |publisher=ABC-CLIO |isbn=9781598843637}}</ref>{{fv|date=November 2023}}<ref>{{cite book |first=Kendal |last=Nezan |title=A Brief Survey of the History of the Kurds |url=https://www.institutkurde.org/en/institute/who_are_the_kurds.php |publisher=Kurdish Institute of Paris}}</ref> [[ethnic group]]{{dubious|Kurdish people are an Iranian ethnic group?|date=November 2023}} native to the mountainous region of [[Kurdistan]] in [[Western Asia]], which spans southeastern [[Turkey]], northwestern [[Iran]], northern [[Iraq]], and northern [[Syria]].<ref name="Bengio2014">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=caCDBAAAQBAJ|title=Kurdish Awakening: Nation Building in a Fragmented Homeland|year=2014|first=Ofra|last=Bengio|publisher=University of Texas Press|isbn=978-0-292-75813-1}}</ref> There are [[exclaves]] of Kurds in [[Central Anatolia Region|Central Anatolia]], [[Khorasan Province|Khorasan]], and the [[Caucasus]], as well as significant [[Kurdish diaspora]] communities in the cities of western Turkey (in particular [[Istanbul]]) and [[Western Europe]] (primarily [[Kurds in Germany|in Germany]]). The [[Kurdish population]] is estimated to be between 30 and 45&nbsp;million.<ref name="KIOP2017"/><ref>Based on arithmetic from ''World Factbook'' and other sources cited herein: A Near Eastern population of 28–30 million, plus approximately a 2 million diaspora gives 30–32 million. If the highest (25%) estimate for the Kurdish population of Turkey, in Mackey (2002), proves correct, this would raise the total to around 37 million.</ref>