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The Kurdish People * 15 million to 20 million Kurds live in a mountainous area straddling the borders of Armenia, Iran, Iraq, Syria and Turkey. About 8 million live in southeastern Turkey. * The Kurds are a non-Arabic people who speak a language related to Persian. Most adhere to the Sunni Muslim faith. Turkey * 1920: After World War I, when the Ottoman Empire is carved up, the Kurds are promised independence by the Treaty of Sevres.
Only Arabs, Persians, and Turks supersede them. Kurds are mainly Sunni Muslims, but there are minorities of Shia Muslims also living in regions like Kermanshah Province and llam, Iran. Fayli Kurds are also Shia Muslims living in southeastern and central Iraq..Kurds are mainly Sunni Muslims and also Shia Muslims, Kurdish Christians, and Kurdish Jews; Arabs are mainly Shia, Sunni and Ismaili Muslims and also Christian and Jewish Arabs.