Armenians and Kurds

[Vladimir]

For Mr Kurd:
Armenians and Kurds worked together in the Azadi uprising. Lot of Armenians nowadays speak Kurmanci and also Zaza. Last year I visited a conference about the Armenian genocide. Here were Armenians speaking Kurdish. One beautifull and intelligent Armenian girl told me that her parents also spoke Kurdish.

Lot of Kurds have Armenian grandparents or grandmothers. After the Armenian genocide lot of Armenian women were saved. They married with Kurdish people. Especially the Alevi and Yezidi Kurds saved a lot of Armenians.

The Zaza Kurds of Dersim and other Kurds are seeing more and more, that there are a lot of Armenian influences in their culture. Especially in the Kurdish Alevi religion (Not the Turkish Besktasi one).

But in WWI Armenian nationalists killed Kurds and Kurdish Hamideyah regiments killed Armenians and deported/executed them.

One of the "reasons" of the Dersim revolt of Sheikh Said Riza was that he was afraid the Zaza Kurds of Dersim could share the same fate as the Armenians. The actual reason of the revolt was resistance towards Turkish centralization.

I don't see any reason for "Kurdish" hostility towards the Armenian people.

Regards,

Vlad

[Armenian]

Here is an Armenian blog that has many articles about Kurds.

http://oneworld.blogsome.com/category/kurds/

http://oneworld.blogsome.com/category/kurds/page/2/

[Armenian]

http://www.hyperhistory.net/apwh/essays ... anKurd.htm

[Armenian]

http://www.tacentral.com/people.asp?story_no=7

[Armenian]

http://www.cilicia.com/armo10i_kurdistan.html

[tomjez]

great links, cheers