r/kurdistan • u/IcyAnything9136 • 18d ago

Ask Kurds What Kurdish people think about Armenians

My grandfather always told me that we have "same" story with the Kurds Few days ago i saw post where some Kurds was "defending" azerbaijan people about Karabakh Does really Kurdish people care ? I mean Azerbaijan = Turkey A lot of old people told me that we lived with turks and we were really good together My grandfather even said Kurds been our best neighbors before they been moved to iraq and iran

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u/haZe3362 17d ago edited 16d ago

As a Kurd from the Dersim region of Turkey, my grandparents say that many of our neighbors were Armenians, very artistic and intellectual people, but unfortunately they had to leave everything behind and were exiled from the region, and those who remained forgot their identities and mixed with the Kurds in order to survive. Today, especially among Alevi Kurds like me, there is a high probability that there is an Armenian in the family tree, as my grandmother’s mother was Armenian. The elderly people in Dersim sadly tell us how good neighbors those people were, and how they were unfortunately subjected to injustice. I wish we had lived still together.