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Chechen Kurds

Chechen Kurds
Hamidiye cavalry at Varto (1901) – Both Chechens and Kurds joined the cavalry.
Regions with significant populations
Following villages in Varto district:[1][2][3]
Bağiçi (Çaharbur)
Kayalık (Zirinik)
Tepeköy (Tepe)
Tescilsiz (Doğdap)
Ulusırt (Aynan)
Aydıngün (Şaşkan), Çöğürlü (Arinç) and Kıyıbaşı villages in Muş district[4]
Kızıltepe[4][5]
Saidsadiq District[6]
Languages
Kurdish (as mother tongue),[2] Turkish, Chechen[2]
Religion
Hanafi[3] and Shafi‘i Islam[2]

Chechen Kurds or Kurdified Chechens are ethnic Chechens who went through a process of Kurdification[6][7] after fleeing to Kurdistan during and after the Russian conquest of the Caucasus in the 1860s. Today, these Chechens are perceived as being of the "Chechen tribe" and "Lezgî tribe".[2]

Chechen families were first settled in other regions of the Ottoman Empire like the Balkans, but were since moved to Kurdistan by the Sublime Porte.[8] The Ottomans planted Chechen refugees in Kurdistan and Western Armenia to change the demographics, since they feared Armenian separatism and, later on, Kurdish separatism.[9]

Today, the Chechen population in Turkish Kurdistan is scattered among the Kurdish population and has been assimilated into it.[10]

About 200 to 300 Kurdified Chechen families live in Saidsadiq District, some 100 families in Penjwen District and about 200 in Sulaymaniyah city in Iraqi Kurdistan.[6]

  1. ^ Ahmet Öztürk, Serap Toprak (2018). "Kafkasya'dan muş yöresine göçler ve göçmenlerin iskânı". Selçuk Üniversitesi Türkiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi: Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi. 43. Selçuk University. ISSN 2458-9071.
  2. ^ a b c d e Aşiretler raporu (1st ed.). İstanbul: Kaynak Yayınları. 2000. ISBN 9753432208.
  3. ^ a b Mehmet Şerif Fırat (1961). Doğu İlleri ve Varto Tarihi. Ankara. pp. 58–59.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  4. ^ a b Tarık Cemal Kutlu (2005). Çeçen direniş tarihi. p. 332.
  5. ^ Alican Baytekin (2004). Öteki Aleviler: Şare Ma. p. 29.
  6. ^ a b c "Iraqi Circassians (Chechens, Dagestanes, Adyghes)" (PDF). p. 13. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-05. Retrieved 28 May 2018.
  7. ^ Ali Rıza Özdemir (2013). Kayıp Türkler (in Turkish). p. 39.
  8. ^ "Some Notes on the Settlement of Northern Caucasians in Eastern Anatolia and Their Adaptation Problems (the Second Half of the XIXth Century - the Beginning of the XXth Century)". Journal of Asian History. 40 (1): 80–103. 2006.
  9. ^ Klein, Janet (2011). The margins of empire Kurdish militias in the Ottoman tribal zone. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press. ISBN 978-0804777759.
  10. ^ "Hoşgörü köyü" (in Turkish). ufkumuzhaber. Retrieved 21 May 2018.

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