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The Kurds in Armenia mainly live in the western parts of Armenia. The Kurds of the former Soviet Union first began writing Kurdish in the Armenian alphabet in the 1920s, followed by Latin in 1927, then Cyrillic in 1945, and now in both Cyrillic and Latin. The Kurds in Armenia established a Kurdish radio broadcast from Yerevan and the first Kurdish newspaper Riya Teze. There is a Kurdish Department in the Yerevan State Institute of Oriental studies. The Kurds of Armenia were the first exiled country to have access to media such as radio, education and press in their native tongue〔The Peoples of the USSR: An Ethnographic Handbook - P. 117. by Ronald Wixman〕 but many Kurds, from 1939 to 1959 were listed as the Azeri population or even as Armenians.〔Mannerheim: Marshal of Finland - P. 210. by Alexandre Bennigsen, Stig Jägerskiöld, S. Enders Wimbush〕 == Yazidi Kurds in Armenia == The Armenian general Dro and the Yazidi Kurd Cengir Agha struggled together in 1918-1920 particular in the Battle of Bash-Aparan which was a battle against the Turkish army on May 21, 1918 during the Turkish-Armenian War, when the Turkish Army invaded the newly independent Democratic Republic of Armenia. According to the 2011 Census, there are about 35,272 Yazidis in Armenia.〔(National Statistical Service of the Republic of Armenia - 2011 Armenian National Census )〕 According to a 2007 U.S. Department of State human rights report, "As in previous years, Yezidi leaders did not complain that police and local authorities subjected their community to discrimination".〔(Country Reports on Human Rights Practices in Armenia )〕 A high percentage of Yezidi children do not attend school, both due to poverty and a lack of teachers who speak their native language.〔(U.S. Department of State Report )〕 However, the first ever Yezidi school opened in Armenia in 1920.〔http://www.osce.org/documents/oy/2002/01/148_en.pdf〕 Due to the ethnic tension created by the war with Azerbaijan, the Yazidi community has renounced its ties with the mostly Muslim Kurds that fled the country and tried to establish itself as a distinct ethnic group. The Yezidis showed great patriotism fighting with Armenians during the Nagorno-Karabakh war, when many died in service.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kurds in Armenia」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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