Kurdistan and the Kurds

Kurdistan and the Kurds

Royal Anthropological Institute

Compte d'auteur

This report is an attempt to collect and edit all information at present available about the Kurds and Kurdistan. It is based on the reports of military and political officers, especially of Captain C. F. Woolley and Major E. Noel, and on a paper written by Sir Mark Sykes in 1908 on " The Kurdish Tribes of the Ottoman Empire." * The work of the" latter requires verification, as it is now nearly 15 years since he carried out his researches. The reports of the former are at present incomplete, as the country has only been accessible to British officers for six months.

No itinerary has been given, as almost the whole of Kurdistan has been ...