Kurds (Kurdish: کورد, romanized: Kurd) or Kurdish people are an Iranic [38] ethnic group native to the mountainous region of Kurdistan in West Asia, which spans southeastern Turkey, northwestern Iran, northern Iraq, and northern Syria. [39]

Apr 11, 2025 · Kurd, any member of an ethnic and linguistic group concentrated in the Taurus Mountains of southeastern Anatolia, the Zagros Mountains of western Iran, portions of northern Iraq, northeastern Syria, and western Armenia, and other, adjacent areas.

The Kurds [A] are an Iranian [1] [2] [3] ethnic group in the Middle East. They have historically inhabited the mountainous areas to the south of Lake Van and Lake Urmia, a geographical area collectively referred to as Kurdistan. Most Kurds speak Northern Kurdish Kurmanji Kurdish (Kurmanji) and Central Kurdish (Sorani).

Aug 16, 2019 · Kurdish forces fought against the Islamic State when it began to capture Iraqi towns in 2014. Today, the Kurds are spread across four nations. Who are they? The world’s largest stateless ethnic...

The Kurds are one of the world’s largest peoples without a state, making up sizable minorities in Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey. Their century-old fight for rights, autonomy, and even...

Mar 15, 2025 · Kurdistan, broadly defined geographic region traditionally inhabited mainly by Kurds. It consists of an extensive plateau and mountain area, spread over large parts of what are now eastern Turkey, northern Iraq, and western Iran and smaller parts of …

Feb 7, 2025 · The Kurds have spent a century fighting for autonomy and confronting brutal repression by Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and Iran.

Dec 23, 2024 · About sixty million strong, the Kurds live within Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Syria, and Armenia, and have stubbornly and bravely maintained their identity and culture through centuries of oppression, invasion, and even genocide.

Kurds (Kurdish: کورد, romanized: Kurd) or Kurdish people are an Indo-European [1] [2] [3] ethnic group indigenous to the mountainous region of Kurdistan in Western Asia, which spans southeastern Turkey, northwestern Iran, northern Iraq and northern Syria.

Kurdish history is deeply intertwined with the geography and the politics of the modern Kurdish regions. The contiguous Kurdish regions of Iran, Iraq, Turkey, and Syria sit in the north central area of the Middle East.