The problem of Kurdish refugees and displaced people arose in the 20th century in the Middle East, and continues today. The Kurds (Kurdish: کورد, Kurd)...

Iraqi Kurdish people comprise the largest proportion of ethnic Kurds living in the US. The first wave of Kurdish immigrants arrived as refugees during...

France during the 1960s as immigrant workers. Thousands of Kurdish refugees and political refugees fled from Turkey to Sweden during the 1970s and onward...

The Simple Truth: A Concert for Kurdish Refugees was a 1991 fundraising concert in support of Kurdish Refugees after the Gulf War. The concert was produced...

Kurds or Kurdish people (Kurdish: کورد, romanized: Kurd) are an Iranic ethnic group native to the mountainous region of Kurdistan in Western Asia, which...

the Syrian civil war and a strong supporter basis among some Syrian Kurdish refugees, the overwhelming popular support the PYD enjoys has eroded support...

nations of the Persian Gulf War, starting in April 1991, to defend Kurdish refugees fleeing their homes in northern Iraq in the aftermath of the Gulf War...

forces confronted each other over the treatment of Kurdish refugees in Turkey. Many Shia refugees fled to Syria, where thousands of them settled in the...

government forces continued until the 1991 uprisings in Iraq, the safety of Kurdish refugees led to the adoption of United Nations Security Council Resolution 688...

since become a hub of refugee resettlement for other communities as well. Following the breakup of the Ottoman Empire, the Kurdish people were separated...

died and two million Kurdish refugees had been driven out of their homes into cities. Until the 1970s, about 70% of the Kurdish population of Turkish...

Kurdish nationalist uprisings have periodically occurred in Turkey, beginning with the Turkish War of Independence and the consequent transition from...

there are no Kurdish refugees because Kurds 'have the right to vote and their human rights are guaranteed'. As of 2024, only one refugee claim has been...

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is a United Nations agency mandated to aid and protect refugees, forcibly displaced communities, and...

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...

Kurdish women (Kurdish: ژنی کوردی, romanized: Jnî Kurdî) have traditionally played important roles in Kurdish society and politics. In general, Kurdish...

The Kurdistan Workers' Party or PKK is a Kurdish militant political organization and armed guerrilla movement which historically operated throughout Kurdistan...

Newroz or Nawruz (Kurdish: نەورۆز, Newroz) is the Kurdish celebration of Nowruz; the arrival of spring and new year in Kurdish culture. The lighting of...

fighting erupted between the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) and Islamist rebel factions in the city of Ras al-Ayn. Kurdish forces launched a campaign...

The Iraqi–Kurdish conflict consists of a series of wars, rebellions and disputes between the Kurds and the central authority of Iraq starting in the 20th...

Deba Hekmat (born 14 November 2001) is a Kurdish-British model, actress, and writer. She began her career in modeling before starring in the film Last...

About 12,000 Kurdish refugees, who fled the civil war between Kurds and the Turkish army in the 1990s, live in this refugee camp. The refugees and their...

Behrouz Boochani (Persian: بهروز بوچانی; born 23 July 1983) is a Kurdish-Iranian journalist, human rights defender, writer and film producer living in...

Civil War, target the refugees of the Iraqi civil war, Kurdish refugees, and Palestinian refugees. "The Syria crisis has become the biggest humanitarian...

The Kurdish Sun, also commonly referred to by its Kurdish name: Kurdish: ڕۆژ, romanized: Roj, is a burning golden sun and the national emblem of the Kurds...

Southern Kurdistan (Kurdish: باشووری کوردستان, romanized: Başûrê Kurdistanê) is an unofficial term commonly used within Kurdish nationalist circles when...

Kurdish Hezbollah (Kurdish: حیزبوڵڵای کورد, romanized: Hizbullahî Kurdî, Turkish: Kürt Hizbullahı) or Hizbullah, is a Kurdish Sunni Islamist militant...

The 1983–1986 Kurdish rebellions in Iraq occurred during the Iran–Iraq War as PUK and KDP Kurdish militias of Iraqi Kurdistan rebelled against Saddam...

The Kurdistan Democratic Party (Kurdish: پارتی دیموکراتی کوردستان, romanized: Partiya Demokrat a Kurdistanê), usually abbreviated as KDP or PDK, is the...

according to which the Turkish attacks on Kurdish villages should stop, the refugees would be allowed to return, the Kurdish people would be granted autonomy within...