• Kurdish women (Kurdish: ژنانی کورد, romanized: Jinên Kurd) have traditionally played important roles in Kurdish society and politics. In general, Kurdish...
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    Kurdish nationalism (Kurdish: کوردایەتی, romanized: Kurdayetî, lit. 'Kurdishness or Kurdism') is a nationalist political movement which asserts that Kurds...
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    up of Kurds, it also includes women from other ethnic groups in Northern Syria. Women have been involved in Syrian Kurdish Resistance fighting since as...
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    Kurds (redirect from Kurdish demographics)
    Kurds or Kurdish people (Kurdish: کورد, romanized: Kurd) are an Iranic ethnic group native to the mountainous region of Kurdistan in Western Asia, which...
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    Kurdish traditional clothing, also known as Kurdish dress (Kurdish: جل و بەرگی کوردی, Cil û bergên kurdî), refers to the folk costumes of the Kurdish...
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  • 2016. "KWRW: Kurdish Women Rights Watch". "KRG looks to enhance protection of women, children". Al-Monitor. 20 April 2015. "KWRW: Kurdish Women Rights Watch"...
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    Forces Syrian Kurdish–Islamist conflict (2013–present) Kurdish–Turkish conflict (2015–present) Kurdish rebellion of 1983 Kurdish women A Modern History...
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    Peshmerga (redirect from Kurdish Army)
    The Peshmerga (Kurdish: پێشمەرگه Pêşmerge, transl. 'Those Who Face Death') comprise the standing military of Kurdistan Region, an autonomous political...
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    Jineology (category Articles containing Kurdish-language text)
    Jineology (Kurdish: Jineolojî) is a form of feminism and of gender equality advocated by Abdullah Öcalan, the representative leader of the Kurdistan Workers'...
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    Kurdistan (Kurdish: کوردستان, romanized: Kurdistan, lit. 'land of the Kurds'; [ˌkʊɾdɪˈstɑːn] ), or Greater Kurdistan, is a roughly defined geo-cultural...
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  • Fawzia Amin Sido (category Iraqi Kurdish women)
    Fawzia Amin Sido (Kurdish: Fewziya Emîn Seydo فەوزییە ئەمین سیدۆ Iraqi Arabic: فوزية أمين سيدو b. 1999 or 2003) is a Yazidi woman from northern Iraq who...
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    below replacement level. In some Kurdish dominated provinces women give birth to 7.1 children on average. Women in Kurdish dominated provinces of eastern...
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    (Kurdish: Jin, Jiyan, Azadî, ژن، ژیان، ئازادی, Persian: زن، زندگی، آزادی, romanized: Zan, Zendegî, Azadî) is a slogan that originated within the women-led...
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  • The Pinarcik massacre was the killing of 24 Kurdish women and children and eight village guards on 20 June 1987, in the village of Pınarcık, in the Mardin...
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    Asia Ramazan Antar (category Kurdish women activists)
    Asya Ramazan Antar (Sorani Kurdish: ئاسیا ڕەمەزان ئەنتەر, 1998—30 August 2016), also known as Viyan Antar, was a Kurdish Women's Protection Units (YPJ) fighter...
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    Woman, Life, Freedom movement (category Women in Iran)
    Freedom House. The slogan “women, life, freedom” is inspired by the Kurdish women’s movement, which has been fighting for women's rights and autonomy in the...
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    Kurdish nationalist uprisings have periodically occurred in Turkey, beginning with the Turkish War of Independence and the consequent transition from...
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  • Kurdish Women's Rights Watch (KWRW) was set up in June 2004 as a non-profit-making, non-political network of activists, academics, lawyers and journalists...
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  • Retrieved 2023-03-12. "The Kurdish female fighters bringing the fight to IS". BBC News. 2014-09-05. Retrieved 2023-03-12. "Kurdish women fighters battle Islamic...
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  • Besê Hozat (category Kurdish women in politics)
    against gender inequality. After the Kurdish Women's Movement's sixth General Assembly, they concluded that women need to be in leadership roles in democratic...
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    The Free Women's Units (Kurdish: Yekîneyên Jinên Azad ên Star), shortened from the Kurdish name as YJA STAR, is the women's military wing of the Kurdistan...
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    Doğan (28), Sakine Cansız (54) and Leyla Şaylemez (24) – all three Kurdish women activists – were found in the premises of the Centre d'Information sur...
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  • Hero Ibrahim Ahmed (category Kurdish women in politics)
    Hero Ibrahim Ahmed (Sorani Kurdish: ھێرۆ ئیبراھیم ئەحمەد) (born 12 June 1948) is the former First Lady of Iraq from 2005 to 2014 and the widow of the...
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    Kurdistan Workers' Party, as well as its allied insurgent groups, both Kurdish and non-Kurdish, who have either demanded separation from Turkey to create an independent...
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    The 1979 Kurdish rebellion in Iran was one of the largest nationwide uprisings in the country against the new state following the Iranian Revolution....
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    Wikipedia and a new version (ckb.) created for Sorani Kurdish Wikipedia. Zazaki Wikipedia Kurdish women at a Wikimedia UK Wikipedia training event in London...
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    Shanaz Ibrahim Ahmed (category Kurdish women in politics)
    Shanaz Ibrahim Ahmed (Sorani Kurdish: شاناز ئیبراهیم ئەحمەد) (born 1954) is an Iraqi-Kurdish politician and current First Lady of Iraq. Her husband is...
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    the Iraqi–Kurdish conflict at the end of the Iran–Iraq War. The campaign targeted rural Kurds because its purpose was to eliminate Kurdish rebel groups...
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    Rojda Felat (category Syrian Kurdish women)
    Rojda Felat (born c. 1977 or 1980) is a Syrian Kurdish senior commander of the Women's Protection Units (YPJ) and Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), who...
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  • Zeynep Kınacı (category Turkish Kurdish women)
    "The PKK – A Woman's Party?: A History of the Kurdish Women's Freedom Movement 1978–2020", The Kurdish Women's Freedom Movement: Gender, Body Politics and...
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