WORLD RELIGIONS

Detailed explanation-1: -The Kurdish people are believed to be of heterogeneous origins, both from Iranian-speaking and non-Iranian peoples. combining a number of earlier tribal or ethnic groups including Lullubi, Guti, Cyrtians, Carduchi.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Kurds are a mountain race, with all the characteristics of mountaineers-love of freedom, violent passions, and a clannish feeling of pride. These primary traits dispose the Kurd to fly to arms at small provocation, and engage with zest in bitter blood feuds.

Detailed explanation-3: -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.