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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: 96. Chapters: Crime in Syria, Ethnic groups in Syria, Human rights in Syria, Languages of Syria, Organizations based in Syria, Religion in Syria, Arabic language, Russian language, Syriac language, Kurdish people, Demographics of Syria, Kurdish language, Elagabalus, Adyghe people, Iraqis in Syria, Western Armenian language, Armenians in Syria, History of the Jews in Syria, Chechen people, Freedom of religion in Syria, Musta'arabi Jews, Ugaritic language, Kurds in Syria, Christianity in Syria, Adyghe language, Islam in Syria, Turoyo language, Assyrian Neo-Aramaic, Domari language, Western Neo-Aramaic, LGBT rights in Syria, Human trafficking in Syria, Syrian Turks, Levantine Arabic, Sureth, List of Syrian Armenians, Greeks in Syria, Damascus Declaration, Iraqi Arabic, Circassians Majlis, Kurdish dialects, Assyrians in Syria, Riad Seif Forum, Mlahso language, Syrian Scientific Technical Amateur Radio Society, North Mesopotamian Arabic, Bedawi Arabic, Najdi Arabic, Kurdish Human Rights Project, Raqqah Newroz Killing, Syrian Arab Red Crescent, Nawar, Lomavren language, Palmyrene dialect, General Union of Syrian Women, Prostitution in Syria, North Syrian Arabic. 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 locat...