Talk:Kurdish diaspora

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I have no idea whether we should keep the history section or not. but about Shabankare I think there are some evidence referring they were Kurdish. not by mentioning by other writters and their personal idea but even by evidence found from them. I heard (from a KurdistanTV interview with a renwoned Kurdish intelectual from Mehabad) that one of the first Kurdish books was written by a writter from this tribe. and that he was among the first individuals who used the modern term Kurdistan. Wirya 09:30, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Mhalmoye

These people are not Kurds but infact Syriacs who converted to Islam by force in the 1630's. This should be taken off from this page! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by ILLeSt (talk • contribs) 09:12, 17 January 2007.

Can't they just be "Kurds of Syriac origin"? Don't they consider themselves Kurds today? Khoikhoi 04:46, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
I think Gazo would know about this, but I thought they considered themselves to be Arabs. Chaldean 14:52, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Vonones

Can you please double check the source, that it says 18 to 22 million. DenizTC 06:26, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] the arab world

turkey and balkans are mentioned under the arab world ?!? weird Quinlan Vos (talk) 20:55, 22 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Serious problems

Maybe this page belongs on a propaganda site for Kurds, but it doesn't come close to meeting Wikipedia standards. There is one listed reference (a provincial U.S. newspaper), and dead links for the external links. And there are some really puzzling assertions as, for example, the assertion that if some Baluchis have some Kurdish ancestors, then that makes them Kurdish.

This passage:

Most Kurds who comprise a small portion (about 1.2%) of total population arrived in Georgia at the time of the Ottoman Empire, having fled religious repression there. They now live mainly in Tbilisi or Rustavi. Kurds are mostly urbanized and socially integrated, but preserve their ethnic identity, language, and cultural traditions.

is copied verbatim from the given source (see WP:copyright). And this passage:

During the secon half of the last century a large population of Kurds living in Northen part of Kurdistan (Turkey) were forced to live their villages and towns. Because of this displacement, large communities of Kurds live in Turkish cities. In some Turkish cities because of a large number of migration, Kurds are the majority and the origin people of those cities (Turks) have become minorities, especially in cities like Adan and Mercin. Also nearly one milion Kurds in Ankara and 4 milion in Istanbul and Izmir are other big Kurdish communities in metropolitan areas of Turkish cities, in addition of 2 milion Kurds living around Konya. But the Kurds living in Konya have been displaced 4 centuries before by Othoman empire.

Poor knowledge of English doesn't seem to be the excuse for this prose: the writer can't even spell the names of Turkish cities correctly (Adan?).

This page needs work. WP is a place for information, not for propaganda. --Anthon.Eff (talk) 01:36, 8 May 2008 (UTC)