As well as Muslims Kurds there is Christian  minority live in Dehawk region in iraq and yazidi doctrine in Mousel and Kurdistan of Iraq.

In addition to Islam and Yezdi, there were sizable minorities of Jewish Kurds in the past.  Also, "Assyrian" Christians in Iraq are said to be actually ethnic Kurds of the Christian faith.   There are also smaller groups of Kurdish affiliated Christians in Eastern Turkey.   I would not doubt that there are Bahai Kurds in Iran.

 

Assyrians are not Kurdish, their language is Semitic (very close to Aramaic, iirc) and, it is the other way around that in fact many Iraqi Kurds are Kurdicised and Islamised Assyrians. 

 

 

Good point.  I stand corrected

 

By the way, Alevi is not only a turkish religious sect. Kurds have their alevis too. Infact Kurdish alevies are more hard core pkk sympatizan than sunni ones.

 

 

 

Originally posted by selah So If you do not Turk you cannot be Alevi.

 

 

 

But Of course, I cannot talk for all alevis. They are so much different from each other.(Even there is some atheist alevis(I dont know whatever it is) and some of them claim, Alevism is not a muslim sect but an other religion.)

 

But I can easly say, they are not much fond with shia. They changed much and much.

 

 

 

This is a common misconception.

 

Firstly there is the whole argument over whether Zaza are Kurds, they are an Iranic people but alot of Zaza intellects claim they are their own identity.

 

Anyway, Zaza have their own sect, its been commongly lumped together with Alevi's which is incorrect.

 

Then some go even further and mix Alevi with Alawi.

 

Alevi is only religion for turks. İt is  mix of old Turkish  believes and İslam.

 

While your correct that Alevi interpretation of Islam is based upon Ahmed Yesevi AlpEren schools and the later emissary of these schools "Haci Bektash", which embraced mystical Islam and retained their old  Turkic Shamanic customs. It isn't "soley" for Turks, one of their famous sayings is, "we look at 72 nations with the same respect/eye".

 

Also Bektashi-Alevi is responsible for the large numbers of conversions to Islam in Anatolia and the Balkans. They are very tolerant and open-minded in their thinkings.

 

 

 

I should add I am also someone go even further and mix Alevi with Alawi.

 

 

what is their difference?

 

There are lots of sects are commongly all lumped together as "Alevi" and this is a major cause for the confusion people have over Alevi's.

 

Alevi basically is the continuation of Central Asian Turkic interpretations of Islam, its based upon Sufi mysticsm and doesnt reject pre-Islamic culture which may have some Shamanistic influences, Haci Bektash who was a pupil of Yesevi AlpEren schools spread it to Anatolia and the Balkans which was very sucessfull. 

 

Being the only one to pick out the source of confusion, what can i say but well done.  You can't imagine the trouble i had with this Alevi and Alawi thing before i worked out that they were different, but similar sounding and often similalrly written names.

 

What do you mean by grip?

 

From that website:

 

Question:   Türkiye Alevileri Tuncelililerden mi ibaret? Atatürk konusunda hep 1937 Dersim öne sürülüyor. Orta ve Batı Anadoludaki Aleviler, Kars-Ardahan Aleviler sayı olarak Dersim Alevilerinden az mı?   Answer:   Tunceli-Sivas(doğu ilçeler)-Erzincan-Malatya(kuzey) en yoğun yerler..Yerleşim olarak yoğun yerler Diğer bölgelerde yerleşimler arasında mesafe var.. Orta anadoluda Çankırı 1 ilçe(şaban özü) Çorum dağınık şekilde ... Tokat dağınık şekilde

 

This is also what I was thinking.

From what I understand the Zaza Kurds are descendants of Zoroastrians, and according to "Zarathushtra and Zoroastrianism" the Kurds define themselves as Zoroastrians.   

I think the point that "Zarathushtra and Zoroastrianism" is that many Irano-Afghans understand that their religious heritage goes back to Zoroastrianism, and apparently some Irano-Afghan nations as a whole especially the Kurds and Tajiks ultimately identify with Zoroastrianism.  I think this would be true as long as you were talking to educated Irano-Afghans.