HISTORY
HISTORY OF THE MIDDLE EAST
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Question
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Kurds
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Persians
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Arabs
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Jews
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Detailed explanation-1: -Answer and Explanation: Kurds all speak an Indo-European language. In this way, the Kurdish ethnic groups shares a linguistic identity with most of the people of Europe, Iran, and Northern India. Most Kurds are Muslims; however, a minority belong to the Yazidi faith.
Detailed explanation-2: -The majority of Kurds are Sunni Muslim, with Alevi Shi’a Muslim, Christian, Jewish, and Yezidi communities. Religious divergences as well as varying political viewpoints account for a wide variety of Kurdish perspectives vis-à-vis the state, though political discourse is dominated by the Kurdish nationalist PKK.
Detailed explanation-3: -Where do they come from? The Kurds are one of the indigenous peoples of the Mesopotamian plains and the highlands in what are now south-eastern Turkey, north-eastern Syria, northern Iraq, north-western Iran and south-western Armenia.
Detailed explanation-4: -Its area was reduced in 1856 and the province of Kurdistan within the Ottoman Empire was abolished in 1864.