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Chechen Kurds
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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]
![]() Hamidiye cavalry at Varto (1901) – Both Chechens and Kurds joined the cavalry. | |
Regions with significant populations | |
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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 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]