Kurmanschen

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As Kurmandschen (also Kurmanj, Kurmanji Kurmanc ), the spokesman of the will northwestern Iranian language Kurmanji and an ethnic collective called (vornationalistischer time). Today most Kurmanji speakers consider themselves ethnic Kurds . However, there are also some Kurmani people who are part of the Kurmanji community and do not consider themselves Kurds. Most Kurmanji speakers refer to their language as Kurmanji rather than Kurdish.

In the second half of the 20th century, Kurdish nationalism became a mass movement in southeastern Turkey, and the Kurmanish people saw it as an expression of Kurmanishism, which stands for the Kurmanish rights as an ethnic group. In the nineties of the same century, the Kurmanish attitude changed. Kurmanj as an ethnic label, Kurmanji as the language of the Kurmani and Kurmanishism were supplanted by Kurdish nationalism.

In Turkey there are people who point out more often that they speak Kurmanji than "being Kurdish".

literature

  • In 1935 Erebê Şemo published the work "Şivanê Kurmanca" (The Shepherd of the Kurmanish people) in Yerevan. Kurdish nationalists later published new editions of the book and changed the title to "Şivanê Kurda" (The Shepherd of the Kurds).
  • In 1936, Heciyê Cindî published the work “Folklora Kurmanca” (The Folklore of the Kurmandschen) in Yerevan. Kurdish nationalists later published new editions of the book and changed the title to “Folklora Kurda” (The Folklore of the Kurds).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Lokman Turgut: Oral literature of the Kurds in the Botan and Hekarî regions . Logos Verlag Berlin GmbH, 2010, ISBN 978-3-8325-2727-3 ( google.de [accessed on March 30, 2019]).
  2. ^ A b c Diane E. King: Kurdistan on the Global Stage: Kinship, Land, and Community in Iraq . Rutgers University Press, 2013, ISBN 978-0-8135-6354-1 ( google.de [accessed March 30, 2019]).
  3. ^ Mehmet Orhan: Political Violence and Kurds in Turkey: Fragmentations, Mobilizations, Participations & Repertoires . Routledge, 2015, ISBN 978-1-317-42043-9 ( google.de [accessed March 30, 2019]).
  4. ↑ Mehrdad Izady: The Kurds: A Concise History And Fact Book . Taylor & Francis, 2015, ISBN 978-1-135-84490-5 ( google.de [accessed March 30, 2019]).