who are kerds?

Question

what do they do? why are they important in our society?

Answer 1

The KURDS, or the people who are Kurdish in ethnicity, are an ethnic minority throughout Asia Minor (Turkey) and the middle east. Having a strong presence in northern Iraq, they are an ethnically seperate faction from the Arabic Sunni-Shia majority of the Middle and South. They are important to our society in that they have been a focal point of ethnic strife throughout Western tradition. It was a Kurd, Salah al-Din ibn Youssef (commonly known as Saladin) who defeated the last Crusaders, including Ivanhoe. The Kurds, armed and let loose by the Ottoman-Turks, commited the Armenian Genocide in 1915. The Kurds were the people who Saddam Hussein killed when he "gassed his own people." And the Kurds are the important faction in Iraq, preventing a peace there. Not because they want war, but because their Arabic and Islamic (though Kurds are Muslim) neighbors do not want a Kurdish state to arise (Kurdistan). So because of the prejudice against them, the Kurds are an important part of understanding why war continues to rage in the Middle East.

Answer 2

The Kurds are an ethnic group who consider themselves to be indigenous to a region often referred to as Kurdistan, an area which includes adjacent parts of Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey. Kurdish communities can also be found in Lebanon, Armenia, Azerbaijan (Kalbajar and Lachin, to the west of Nagorno Karabakh) and, in recent decades, some European countries and the United States (see Kurdish diaspora). Ethnically related to other Iranian peoples,[10] they speak Kurdish, an Indo-European language of the Iranian branch. However, the Kurds' ethnic origins are uncertain.[11]

According to Vladimir Minorsky There is no doubt that the term Mar (Medians) refers to Kurds. Furthermore he writes that in the curious Armenian manuscript containing samples of alphabets and languages, written some time before A.D. 1446, a prayer in Kurdish figures as specimen of the language of the Medians''.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurds

Answer 3

Kurds are mainly from Iraq but can also be found throughout the middle east and the rest of Europe.
They are predominantly muslim sunnis but not as
strict or radical as other muslims. They do not restrict women's dress for instance.

Answer 4

Kurds. An ethnic group in Turkey, Albania, Bosnia, and Iraq. I believe they are Muslim, but don't quote me on that.

or curds. Those are the chunky bits in cottage cheese.

Answer 5

I think it's spelled, Kurd. And they live mostly along the Iraqi Turkish border. That's all I know about them, other than I think they are one of the sects of Islam.

Answer 6

Do you mean the Kurds?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurds
http://www.britannica.com/worldsapart/3_timeline_print.html

Answer 7

Dyslexic nerds??

Answer 8

I think they are little cheese snacks that you can get in Wisconsin.