Kurdere: Forskelle mellem versioner

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'''Kurderne''' ({{lang-ku|کورد}}) eller det kurdiske folk ({{lang-ku|گەلی کورد}}) er en [[Etnicitet|etnisk gruppe]]<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4555000.stm Killing of Iraq Kurds 'genocide'], ''[[BBC]]'', "The Dutch court said it considered ''legally and convincingly proven that the Kurdish population meets requirement under Genocide Conventions as an ethnic group'."</ref> i [[Mellemøsten]], der hovedsagelig er bosat i et sammenhængende område, der spænder over tilstødende dele af det sydøstlige [[Tyrkiet]] (det nordlige Kurdistan), det nordvestlige [[Iran]] (det østlige Kurdistan), det nordlige [[Irak]] ([[Kurdistan (Irak)|det sydlige Kurdistan]]) og det nordlige [[Syrien]] ([[Syrisk Kurdistan|vestlige Kurdistan]]).<ref>''Kurdish Awakening: Nation Building in a Fragmented Homeland'', (2014), by Ofra Bengio, University of Texas Press</ref> Kurderne er kulturelt, historisk og sprogligt klassificeret som tilhørende de [[iranske folkeslag]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-Kurds.html |title=Kurds |date=2014 |work=The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.|publisher=Encyclopedia.com |accessdate=29. december 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |first=Mehrdad R. |last=Izady |title=The Kurds: A Concise Handbook |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=I9mr6OgLjBoC&pg=PA198 |year=1992 |publisher=Taylor & Francis |isbn=978-0-8448-1727-9 |page=198}}</ref><ref name="EncyclopaediaIslamica">{{cite book |chapter=Kurds, Kurdistan |last1=Bois|first1=T.|last2=Minorsky|first2=V.|last3=MacKenzie|first3=D.&nbsp;N. |title=Encyclopaedia Islamica |editor1-first=P.|editor1-last=Bearman |editor2-first=T.|editor2-last=Bianquis |editor3-first=C.&nbsp;E.|editor3-last=Bosworth |editor4-first=E.|editor4-last=van Donzel |editor5-first=W.&nbsp;P.|editor5-last=Heinrichs |publisher=Brill |year=2009 |quote=The Kurds, an Iranian people of the Near East, live at the junction of more or less laicised Turkey."... We thus find that about the period of the Arab conquest a single ethnic term ''Kurd'' (plur. ''Akrād'') was beginning to be applied to an amalgamation of Iranian or iranicised tribes. ... The classification of the Kurds among the Iranian nations is based mainly on linguistic and historical data and does not prejudice the fact there is a complexity of ethnical elements incorporated in them.}}</ref>