A R M E N I A
There are an estimated 75,000 Kurds (1.8% of population) in the Republic of Armenia (SOURCE: KHRP Report, Kurds in the former Soviet Union - November 1996).
Whilst the capital, Yerevan, has been considered a
centre for Kurdish culture and the arts, conflict with neighbouring Azerbaijan
has seen the expulsion of Muslim Kurds and abuses against the small indigenous
Kurdish population caught up in the fighting between Armenia and Azerbaijan
over the disputed enclave of Nagorno Karabagh.
A B O U T A R M E N I A
The Republic of Armenia is a landlocked country in southern Caucasia, between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea; it forms part of the historic region of Armenia and is bordered on the north by Georgia, on the east by Azerbaijan, on the south by Iran, on the southwest by Azerbaijan, and on the west by Turkey.
The republic's capital is Yerevan. After centuries of foreign rule, Armenia enjoyed a brief period of independence after World War I and regained its independence in 1991 following several decades as a republic of the USSR.
Since the expulsion of about 200,000 Azeris and Muslim
Kurds in 1988-89, the population of the Republic of Armenia has been more
than 95 percent Armenian, with small Kurdish, Russian, and Yezidi minorities.
F U R T H E R I N F O R M A T I O N
LINK: Library
of Congress Federal Reserve Division: Armenia
