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Where Kurdish history is read through documents.
Articles, video, podcasts and document records; every claim labelled with an evidence level.
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8ArticleTopic gates
Thirteen main gates, each opening onto its own dossiers.
Origins, population, geography: the most asked questions in one dossier.
Yazidism is a category of its own; it stands as a separate gate.
From the Medes to today; every era with primary-source citations.
7 entriesKurmanji, Sorani, Zazaki, Southern Kurdish; orthography and alphabets.
Status debates from Sykes-Picot to today, with documents.
1 entriesIzady maps, settlement and language boundaries, place names.
The women’s movement, oral history and biographies.
Dress, music, dance, food: an archive of everyday life.
4 entriesClassical divans, dengbêj recordings, contemporary literature.
1 entriesHalabja, Anfal, Dersim, Shingal: record, witness, citation.
Migration from Germany to Sweden, institutions, law and identity.
Tribe, land, city, labour: the long history of structures.
Primary-source surveys; direct access to raw documents.
Why this archive?
bedelboseli.com is an independent archive reading Kurdish history through documents. Every claim carries an evidence label: certain, strong, contested, legend. Primary sources come first; distortions in Turkish translations are annotated. No source is bent for any political line; citation, page and date are always shown so the reader can see the evidence.
Read our editorial and source principlesEvery entry comes with a citation and page number.
Error reports are examined within 72 hours; no silent corrections.