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Ruben Safrastyan: Kurdish state already existing in
northern Iraq
11.5.2007
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May
11, 2007
Kurdish state, which has all prerequisites for
independence, already exists on the territory of
Kurdistan region (northern Iraq), Ruben Safrastyan,
Director of the Institute of Oriental Studies at the
RA National Academy of Sciences of Armenia, told a
news conference in Yerevan.
The U.S. has some plans as regards formation of
Kurdish states in Iraq, Iraq, Syria and Armenia.
"Implementation of these plans is unreal in the near
future. However, if Turkey fails to resist the U.S.
pressure Iraqi Kurdistan will sooner or later
acquire independence officially," Safrastyan said.
The Yazidis in Armenia are the largest ethnic and
religious minority in the country. The Yazidis are
mostly ethnic Kurds who live in the west of Armenia
and follow an ancient religion, influenced by
Zoroastrianism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam,
that is often misunderstood as devil worship.
Relations between the Yazidis and the ethnic
Armenian majority have varied from cooperation to
persecution by the latter. A part of Armenia is
historically a part of Big Kurdistan (Iraq, Turkey,
Iran, Syria, Armenia, Georgia) .
panarmenian net | Agencies |
Ruben Safrastyan, Director of the Institute of
Oriental Studies at the RA National Academy of
Sciences of Armenia |
Yazidis and Kurds in Armenia from Wikipedia
** The use of the term "Kurdistan" is vigorously
rejected due to its alleged political implications
by the Republic of Turkey, which does not recognize
the existence of a "Turkish Kurdistan" Southeast
Turkey.
Others estimate over 40 million Kurds live in
Big Kurdistan (Iraq, Turkey, Syria, Iran, Armenia),
which covers an area as big as France, about half of
all Kurds which estimate to 20 million live in
Turkey.
Turkey is home to over 25 million ethnic Kurds, some
of whom openly sympathise with the Kurdish PKK for a
Kurdish homeland in the country's mainly Kurdish
southeast of Turkey.
Before August 2002, the Turkish government placed
severe restrictions on the use of Kurdish language,
prohibiting the language in education and broadcast
media.
The Kurdish alphabet is still not recognized
in Turkey, and use of the Kurdish letters X, W, Q
which do not exist in the Turkish
alphabet has led to judicial persecution in 2000 and
2003
The Kurdish flag flown officially in Iraqi Kurdistan
but unofficially flown by Kurds in Armenia. The flag
is banned in Iran, Syria, and Turkey where flying it
is a criminal offence"
Southeastern Turkey:
North Kurdistan ( Kurdistan-Turkey)
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