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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 117. Chapters: Tatars, Kurdish people, Albanians, Bulgarians, Pomaks, Armenians, Turkish people, List of Azeris, Armenians in Turkey, Adyghe people, Hemshin peoples, Pontic Greeks, Georgians, Chechen people, Qaraei, Greeks in Turkey, Kurds in Turkey, Bulgarians in Turkey, Laz people, Karachays, Azeris in Turkey, Zaza people, Abkhaz people, Ingush people, Chveneburi, Karamanlides, Karapapak, Bosporus Germans, Afro-Turks, Dom people, Syriacs in Turkey, Vallahades, Anatolian Bulgarians, Alawites in Turkey, Britons in Turkey, Iraqis in Turkey, Sadz, Ubykh people, Circassians in Turkey, Mhallami, Afghans in Turkey, Chinese people in Turkey, Circassians Majlis, Canadians in Turkey, Arabs in Turkey, Peoples of the Caucasus in Turkey, Roma in Turkey, Cossacks in Turkey, Franco-Levantines, Ossetians in Turkey, Shaqaqi, Pakistanis in Turkey, Japanese people in Turkey, Kajars, Kuresunni, Indians in Turkey, Filipinos in Turkey, Germans in Turkey, Arnauts, Russians in Turkey, Muhajir, Australians in Turkey, Nemerems. Excerpt: The Kurdish people, or Kurds (Kurdish: ), are an Iranian people native to the Middle East, mostly inhabiting a region known as Kurdistan, which includes adjacent parts of Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey. They speak the Kurdish language, which is a member of the Iranian branch of Indo-European languages. The Kurds number about 30 million, the majority living in the Middle East, with significant Kurdish diaspora communities in the cities of western Turkey, in Armenia, Georgia, Israel, Azerbaijan, Russia, Lebanon and, in recent decades, some European countries and the United States. The Kurds are an indigenous ethnic minority in countries where the Kurdistan region is located, although they have enjoyed partial autonomy in Iraqi Kurdistan since 1991. An irredentist movement pushes for the creation of a Kurdish nation state. T...