Kurds in Armenia
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The Kurds in Armenia (Armenian: Քրդերը Հայաստանում, romanized: K’rderë Hayastanum; Kurdish: Kurdên Ermenistanê Кӧрден Әрмәньстане), also referred to as the Kurds of Rewan[lower-alpha 1] (Kurdên Rewanê), form a major part of the historically significant Kurdish population in the post-Soviet space, and live mainly in the western parts of Armenia.
Kurdên Ermenistanê Кӧрден Әрмәньстане | |
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Total population | |
37,470 (2011 census)[1] Estimates: 40.000[2] - 60.000[3] | |
Languages | |
Kurdish (Kurmanji), Armenian, Russian |
Kurds and Yazidis are counted as separate ethnic groups in Armenia (on the relationship between Yazidis and Kurdish identity, see Yazidis#Identity). The latest census conducted in Armenia (2011) recorded 35,308 Yazidi and 2,162 Kurdish inhabitants of Armenia based on the self-identification of the respondents.[1] Practically all of those who identified themselves as Kurds in the census are members of the Yazidi community who embrace a Kurdish identity; extremely few Muslim Kurds live in Armenia today.[4][5]
Since 2015, four seats in Armenia's parliament are guaranteed for representatives of the country's ethnic minorities, of which one seat is reserved for a representative of the Yazidi community and one seat for the Kurdish community.[6]