Author: Anthea » Sat Jun 01, 2013 4:09 pm
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"The ethnic and linguistic minorities are not less important than religious.
The most significant group is that of the Kurds (10 per cent), which are of Iranian origin, speak the Kurdish language, which belongs to the north-west of the Iranian languages. They are mostly Sunni Muslims. In Syria there are a million and six hundred thousand Kurds.
The Syrian Kurdistan is characterized by territorial division. Linguistic and cultural affinities for the Syrian Kurds refer to turkish Kurdistan, which is considered an expansion from the geographical point of view. The Kurdish region is made up of three enclaves within Syria, divided by the Arab territories. The three areas are: Kurd Dagh "mountain of the Kurds" in the north-west of Aleppo, the region Jarablus and Kobani (Ain al-Arab in Arab, Arab-Pinar in turkish) north-east of Aleppo; Cezire (Arabic Jazira - island -) between the Tigris and the Euphrates, in the northern part of the muhafadha Syrian Al-Hasakah. While the first two regions are adjacent only to the Kurdish areas of Turkey, al-Hasakah is contiguous to the Kurdish areas of Turkey and Iraq. It is a triangle on the border turkish-Iraqi, and belongs to the more traditional Mesopotamia and Syria. It is a strip of plain deep on average about twenty kilometers, but can sometimes reach 60 km. Form a duck bill and is considered the granary of Syria for the production of cereals and cotton.
Colonies consisting of Kurds are present in Damascus and Aleppo, and seem well integrated into the life of the country. In the capital have been present for centuries the two neighborhoods Kurdish al-Hayy al-Maydan and Akrād. The role of auxiliary troops in the repression of the great Kurdish rebellion of 1927 put a strain on relations between the Nationalists and the Kurds Damascene during the French mandate (Khoury 1993, p. 450). Since the end of the thirties there was a lively presence of Arabized Kurds in the Syrian Communist Party, of which he was secretary general Khalid Bakdash, a Kurd from Damascus.
The mid-twentieth century the Kurds lived in the region of the Golan. One group was now fully accepted, spoke Arabic, lived the nomadic state and resembled the Bedouin Arabs who recognized its members as agha (tribal chief), the only element that showed their origins. Another Kurdish group lived in the towns and villages. A Quneitra fifty Kurds was devoted primarily to retail and maintained good relations with the Bedouins. In some villages, the Kurds were shopkeepers or butchers. There were also large landowners Kurds, the most important landowners of the Golan. Three families owned 452,925 donum (measure of area equivalent to about 1000 square meters). The landowners lived in Damascus and the exploitation of the land was done by brokers and sharecroppers (Bagh 1961, p. 335). This world was shocked by the Israeli occupation of 1967.
The policy of Arabization of the Jazira with the deportation of some Kurdish groups and the settlement of Arabs was undertaken in 1967 by the Syrian authorities but was blocked by the rise to power of Asad. These measures had helped to revive the national sentiment and exacerbate some Kurdish tensions.
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