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6,000, leaving the remainder of 300,000 non-citizens Kurds living in Syria in a state of uncertainty. One newly nationalized Kurd has been reported as saying: ‘I’m pleased to have my ID card .... But not until the process is completed will I truly trust the intentions of this action. Before my card is activated, I must have an interview, no doubt full of interrogation and intimidation, with State Security. Citizenship should not be a privilege. It is my right.’ According to one researcher, the Kurdish street perceived the measure of providing citizenship as 'not well-intentioned, but simply an attempt to distance Kurds from the developing protest movement of the Syrian Revolution.'
278:, there was a large migration of Kurds to Syria's Jazira province. It is estimated that 25,000 Kurds fled at this time to Syria. The French official reports show the existence of 45 Kurdish villages in Jazira prior to 1927. A new wave of refugees arrived in 1929. The French authorities continued to allow Kurdish migration into the Mandate, and by 1939, the villages numbered between 700 and 800. The French geographers Fevret and Gibert estimated that in 1953 out of the total 146,000 inhabitants of Jazira, agriculturalist Kurds made up 60,000 (41%), nomad Arabs 50,000 (34%), and a quarter of the population were Christians. 987: 115: 823:; for all intents and purposes, these unregistered Kurds did not exist in the eyes of the state. They could not get jobs, become educated, own property or participate in politics. In some cases, classifications varied even within Kurdish families: parents had citizenship but not their children, a child could be a citizen but not his or her brothers and sisters. Those Kurds who lost their citizenship were often dispossessed of their lands, which were given by the state to Arab and Assyrian settlers. A media campaign was launched against the Kurds with slogans such as 578: 893:. Although Kurdish farmers were dispossessed of their lands, they refused to move and give up their houses. Among these Kurdish villagers, those who were designated as alien were not allowed to own property, to repair a crumbling house or to build a new one. In 1976 the further implementation of the arabization policy along the Turkish border was officially dropped by Hafez al Assad. The achieved demographic changes were not reverted, and in 1977 a ban on non-arabic place names was issued. 1183: 1053: 1327:, foreigners cannot be employed at government agencies and state-owned enterprises; they may not legally marry Syrian citizens. Kurds with foreigner status do not have the right to vote in elections or run for public office, and when they attend universities they are often persecuted and cannot be awarded with university degrees. non-citizens Kurds living in Syria are not awarded school certificates and are often unable to travel outside of their provinces. 926: 5459: 5591: 1306: 356: 622:). The mandatory authorities continued to encourage Kurdish immigration into Syria, and a new significant wave of refugees arrived in 1929. The number of Kurds settled in the Jazira province during the 1920s was estimated between 20,000 and 25,000. With the continuous intensive immigration the villages numbered between 700 and 800 in 1939. Consequently, Kurds became majority in the districts of Tigris (later renamed 570: 1323:
inaccuracy in the Syrian government's process; HRW also alleges that some of the Kurds who had served in the Syrian army lost citizenship while those who bribed officials kept theirs. Stateless Kurds also do not have the option of legally relocating to another country because they lack passports or other internationally recognized travel documents. In Syria, other than in the governorate of
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registrations of the citizens of Syria were included in the new civil registers. The remaining, which included 100,000 Kurds, were registered as foreigners (or "ajanib") in special registers. Many others did not participate in the census through choice or other circumstances; they are known as "maktoumeen", meaning "unrecorded". Since then, the number of stateless
963:. The international press reported that nine people were killed on 12 March. According to Amnesty International hundreds of people, mostly Kurds, were arrested after the riots. Kurdish detainees were reportedly tortured and ill-treated. Some Kurdish students were expelled from their universities, reportedly for participating in peaceful protests. 1026:, Syrian security forces fired into a crowd of more than 50,000 mourners, killing five people. According to Tammo's son, Fares Tammo, "My father's assassination is the screw in the regime's coffin. They made a big mistake by killing my father." Since then, Kurdish demonstrations became a routine part of the Syrian uprising. In June 2012, the 1302:
issue of the agricultural reform law, to benefit from land redistribution. However, according to Human Rights Watch, the Syrian government falsely claimed that many of the Kurds who were the original inhabitants of the land were foreigners, and in turn, violated their human rights by stripping them of their Syrian citizenship.
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bombarded Amuda. On 13 August 1937, in a revenge attack, Kurdish tribes sided with Damascus and about 500 men from the Dakkuri, Milan, and Kiki tribes led by the Kurdish tribal leader Sa'ed Agha al-Dakkuri attacked the then predominantly Christian Amuda and burned the town. The town was destroyed and
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In this atlas, French geographer Balanche suggests that "As of 2010, Syria’s population was roughly 65% Sunni Arab, 15% Kurdish, 10% Alawite, 5% Christian, 3% Druze, 1% Ismaili, and 1% Twelver Shia." (page 13) "The number of Kurds in Syria is often underestimated by analysts, who tend to cap them at
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and the possession of Kurdish publications or music was enough to be sent to be detained. KDPS was never legally recognized by the Syrian state and remains an underground organization, especially after a crackdown in 1960 during which several of its leaders were arrested, charged with separatism and
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Early demands for a Kurdish autonomy came from the Kurdish deputy Nuri Kandy of Kurd Dagh, who asked the authorities of the French mandate to grant an administrative autonomy to all the areas with a Kurdish majority in 1924. Also the Kurdish tribes of the Barazi Confederation demanded autonomy for
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in northwestern Syria. The Afrin Plateau northwest of Aleppo, just inside what is today Syria, was officially known as the "Sancak of the Kurds" in Ottoman documents. The Millis revolted against the Ottoman government after the death of their leader Ibrahim Pasa and some of them eventually settled
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In April 2011, the President signed Decree 49 which provides citizenship for Kurds who were registered as foreigners in Hasaka. However, a recent independent report has suggested that the actual number of non-citizens Kurds who obtained their national ID cards following the decree does not exceed
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until they accounted for the majority in some of these cities. The government also claims that many Kurds were capable of registering themselves illegally in the Syrian civil registers. The government further speculated that Kurds intended to settle down and acquire property, especially after the
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in the Jazira province among Kurds and Christians. The Kurdish leaders Hajo Agha, Kaddur Bey, and Khalil Bey Ibrahim Pasha. Hajo Agha was the Kurdish chief of the Heverkan tribal confederation and one of the leaders of the Kurdish nationalist party Xoybûn (Khoyboun). He established himself as the
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and have immigrated during the 20th century to escape the harsh repression of the Kurds in that country. Kurds were later joined in Syria by a new large group that drifted out of Turkey throughout the interwar period during which the Turkish campaign to assimilate its Kurdish population was at it
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The Kurdistan National Assembly of Syria was formed to represent Syrian Kurds based on two major conferences, one at the US Senate in March 2006 and the other at the EU parliament in Brussels in 2006. The Kurdistan National Assembly of Syria (KNAS) seeks democracy for Syria and supports granting
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According to the Human Rights Watch, by many accounts, the special census was carried out in an arbitrary manner separating members of the same families and classifying them differently. HRW claims that some Kurds in the same family became citizens while others became foreigners suggesting an
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and discovery of oilfields in the Kurdish inhabited areas of Syria. In June 1963, Syria took part in the Iraqi military campaign against the Kurds by providing aircraft, armoured vehicles and a force of 6,000 soldiers. Syrian troops crossed the Iraqi border and moved into the Kurdish town of
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In 1962, 20 percent of Syria's Kurdish population were stripped of their Syrian citizenship following a very highly controversial census raising concerns among human rights groups. According to the Syrian government, the reason for this enactment was due to groups of Kurds infiltrating the
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even though they were in possession of Syrian identity cards. The inhabitants who had Syrian identity cards were told to hand them over to the administration for renewal. However, many of those Kurds who submitted their cards received nothing in return. Many were arbitrarily categorized as
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has grown to more than 200,000. According to Refugees International, there are about 300,000 Kurdish non-citizens in Syria; however, Kurds dispute this number and estimate about 500,000. An independent report has confirmed that there are at least 300,000 non-citizen Kurds living in Syria.
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As a result of government claims of an increase in illegal immigration, the Syrian government decided to conduct a general census on 5 October 1962 in the governorate with claims that its sole purpose was to purify registers and eliminate the alien infiltrators. As a result, the verified
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Syria has several other ethnic groups, the Kurds... they make up an estimated 9 percent...Turkomen comprise around 4-5 percent of the total population. The rest of the ethnic mix of Syria is made of Assyrians (about 4 percent), Armenians (about 2 percent), and Circassians (about 1
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and were granted their victims' land as a reward. Kurds were responsible for most of the atrocities against Assyrians, and Kurdish expansion happened at the expense of Assyrians (due to factors like proximity). Kurdish as well as Circassian and Chechen tribes cooperated with the
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Those who have spread to the west of the Euphrates have come from the valleys of Kurdistan. They have gradually settled in and live alongside the Turks, Turkmen, Christians and Arabs, all of whose customs they have adopted to some
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10% of the population. In fact, they are closer to 15%."(page 16) The 2018 breakdown is 1% Sunni Arab, 16% Kurdish, 13% Alawite, 3% Christian, 4% Druze, 1% Ismaili, 1% Twelver Shia, 1% Turkmen (page 22) Balanche also refers to his
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names, are not permitted to build Kurdish private schools and are prohibited from publishing books and other materials written in Kurdish. In 1988 it was prohibited also to sing in non-arabic language at weddings or festivities.
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valley, subjugated the local tribes and brought the area under control of Milli confederation and attempted to set up an independent principality. In 1800, the Ottoman government appointed the Milli chief Timur as governor of
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in Turkey, and paid the governor of that city for the right of grazing their herds in the Syrian Jazira. These Kurdish tribes gradually settled in villages and cities and are still present in Jazira (modern Syria's
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The Kurdish community's role in the military continued under the Ottomans. Kurdish soldiers and policeman from the city were tasked with both maintaining order and protecting the pilgrims’ route toward
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highest. The government has used the fact that some Kurds fled to Syria during the 1920s to claim that Kurds are not indigenous to the country and to justify its discriminatory policies against them.
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CIA estimates are as of June 2019 "Ethnic groups: Sunni Arab ~50%, Alawite ~15%, Kurd ~10%, Levantine ~10%, other ~15% (includes Druze, Ismaili, Imami, Nusairi, Assyrian, Turkoman, Armenian)"
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equal rights to Kurds and other Syrian minorities. They seek to transform Syria into a federal state, with a democratic system and structure for the federal government and provincial governments.
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the Kurdish regions within the French Mandate. But their requests were not fulfilled by the French at the time. Between December 1931 and January 1932, the first elections under the new
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The decree 768 of the year 2000, prohibited shops to sell cassettes or videos in Kurdish language. The decree also encouraged to implement older restrictions of the Kurdish language.
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of 10 August 1920. The treaty stipulated that Ottoman Kurdistan, which included Kurdish inhabited areas in southeastern Turkey and northern Iraq to be given autonomy within the new
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Some 15% to 17% of the Syrian population is Kurdish. Whether they can achieve statehood will depend on a reading of international law and on how the international community reacts.
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in Syria by activists through Facebook. Few turned out to protest, but among the few were Kurdish demonstrators in the northeast of the country. On 7 October 2011, Kurdish leader
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based on reports of illegal infiltration of tens of thousands of Turkish Kurds into Syria. As a result, around 120,000 Kurds in Jazira (20% of Syrian Kurds) were stripped of their
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Les territoires de marge de la Syrie mandataire : le mouvement autonomiste de la Haute JazĂźra, paradoxes et ambiguĂŻtĂ©s d’une intĂ©gration" nationale" inachevĂ©e (1936–1939)
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Kurds are the largest ethnic minority in Syria, constituting around 10 per cent of the population – around 2 million of the pre-conflict population of around 22 million.
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and the permeability of the Syrian-Turkish border. The Kurdish population in Syria is relatively small in comparison to the Kurdish populations in nearby countries, such as
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had also come under the control of the People's Protection Units. The only major cities with significant Kurdish populations that remained under government control were
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cultural rights, economic progress and democratic change. Following their demands for the recognition of the Kurdish cultural rights, the Party got suppressed by the
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who have crossed the border during different events in the 20th century. There are three major centers for the Kurdish population in Syrian, the northern part of the
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have intensified the Kurdish immigration from the Anatolian mountains to Syrian Jazirah. After that, massive waves of Kurds fled their homes in the mountains of
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was gunned down in his apartment by masked men widely believed to be government agents. During Tammo's funeral procession the next day in the town of
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When Maurice Abadie, a French general, was overseeing the French occupation of Syria, he made some observations on the settlements of Kurds in 1920:
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Le mouvement kurde de Turquie en exil: continuitĂ©s et discontinuitĂ©s du nationalisme kurde sous le mandat français en Syrie et au Liban (1925–1946)
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of the area such as village names were Arabized. According to the original plan, some 140,000 Kurds had to be deported to the southern desert near
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Syrian policies in the 1970s led to Arabs resettling in majority Kurdish areas. In 1965, the Syrian government decided to create an Arab cordon (
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as governors for the Ottomans from 1591 to 1607. At the beginning of the 17th century, Kurdish tribes were forcefully settled in the vicinity of
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of 24 July 1923, which made no mention of a future Kurdish state. The majority of Ottoman Kurdish territory was given to Turkey and the rest in
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span over parts of present day northeastern Syria. The demographics of this area underwent a huge shift in the early part of the 20th century.
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The Dom, The "Other" Asylum Seekers From Syria: Discrimination, Isolation and Social Exclusion: Syrian Dom Asylum Seekers in the Crossfire
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International and Kurdish human rights organizations have accused the Syrian government of discriminating against the Kurdish minority.
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Kurds are the largest ethnic minority in Syria, making up between 5 and 10 percent of the Syrian population of 21 million in 2011
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Winter, Stefan (2006). "The Other "Nahᾍah": The Bedirxans, the Millüs and the Tribal Roots of Kurdish Nationalism in Syria".
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Winter, Stefan (2006). "The Other Nahdah: The Bedirxans, the MillĂźs, and the Tribal Roots of Kurdish Nationalism in Syria".
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Reisebeschreibung nach Arabien und andern umliegenden LĂ€ndern. (Mit Kupferstichen u. Karten.) – Kopenhagen, Möller 1774–1837
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representative of the Kurds in Jazira maintaining the coalition with the Christian notables, who were represented by the
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Under the terms of the Syrian Constitution the Druze community is designated as a part of the Syrian Muslim community.
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Syria's war of ethnic cleansing: Kurds threatened with beheading by Turkey's allies if they don't convert to extremism
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authorities with the cooperation of Kurdish troops (and to a lesser degree, Circassian and Chechen tribes) persecuted
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of routinely discriminating and harassing Syrian Kurds. Many Kurds seek political autonomy for what they regard as
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Winter, Stefan (2005). "Les Kurdes du Nord-Ouest syrien et l'État ottoman, 1690–1750". In Afifi, Mohammad (ed.).
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is the country's largest ethnic minority, usually estimated at around 10% of the Syrian population and 5% of the
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The first licensed female doctors in India, Syria and Japan. Anandibai Joshee (Indian), Kei Okami (Japanese),
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La France en Cilicie et en Haute-MĂ©sopotamie: aux confins de la Turquie, de la Syrie et de l'Irak, 1919–1933
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area. They were given taxing authority and controlling other tribes in the region. In 1758, Milli chief and
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Estimates from 1.6 million to 2.5 million Kurds make up between 5% and 10% of Syria's population.
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and enjoyed considerable rights as the French Mandate authority encouraged minority autonomy as part of a
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Legislative Decree on Granting Syrian Nationality to People Registered in Registers of Hasaka Foreigners
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and Seruj by the Ottoman sultans. In the mid-18th century, Ottomans recognized Milli tribal leaders as
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municipality. The Kurdish-Christian Coalition wanted French troops to stay in the province in case of
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McDowall, David. Modern History of the Kurds, I. B. Tauris & Company, Limited, 2004. pp. 473–474.
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Even though some Kurdish communities have a long history in Syria, most Syrian Kurds originate from
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in early 2018. Between 150,000 and 200,000 people were displaced due to the Turkish intervention.
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in 1945. The Syrian government claims that the Kurds came from neighboring countries, especially
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Protests in the Kurdish inhabited areas of Syria evolved into armed clashes after the opposition
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On 23 August 1962, the government conducted a special population census only for the province of
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Over the course of the past century the Kurds have migrated and spread throughout northern Syria.
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Being Modern in the Middle East: Revolution, Nationalism, Colonialism, and the Arab Middle Class
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In other parts of the country during this period, Kurds became local chiefs and tax farmers in
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in the 1920s. Kurdish immigration waves to Syria's Jazira province started immediately after
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district. Immigration from Turkey was not limited to the Jazira area. In the 1930s, Kurdish
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Winter, Stefan (2009). "Les Kurdes de Syrie dans les archives ottomanes (XVIIIe siĂšcle)".
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Philip G. Kreyenbroek; Stefan Sperl (1992). "Chapter 8: The Kurds in Syria and Lebanon".
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were held. Among the deputies there were three members of the Syrian Kurdish nationalist
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for the most part on the Syrian side of the newly drawn Turkish-Syrian border of 1922.
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It is estimated that at the beginning of the 20th century around 12,000 Kurds lived in
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started bombarding Kurdish-controlled regions of Syria for a planned invasion called
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Under the French Mandate of Syria, newly-arriving Kurds were granted citizenship by
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Waves of Kurdish Tribes and their families arrived into Syria originally came from
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also reported that Kurdish human rights activists are mistreated and persecuted.
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strategy and recruited heavily from the Kurds and other minority groups, such as
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Statelet of Survivors: The Making of a Semi-Autonomous Region in Northeast Syria
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the Christian population, about 300 families, fled to the towns of Qamishli and
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Syrian Kurds live mainly in three Kurdish pockets in northern Syria adjacent to
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Jordi Tejel, translated from the French by Emily Welle; Welle, Jane (2009).
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In March 1986, a few thousand Kurds wearing Kurdish costume gathered in the
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corps in Damascus. Later, Kurdish migrants from diverse areas, such as
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These policies in the Jazira region coincided with the beginning of
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and Hamza Diweran along with some Kurdish politicians, founded the
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Patriarch Ignatius Gabriel I Tappouni and Michel DĂŽme the
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Kurds make up between 7% and 10% of Syria's population.
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The flag of the Democratic Federation of Northern Syria
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as the governing body of all Kurdish controlled areas.
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North Levantine Arabic
Modern Standard Arabic
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Aleppo
Damascus
Syrian government
Western Kurdistan
Kurdistan Regional Government
Kurdistan
Syrian Civil War
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