Askar Simitko
Askar Simitko, alternative spellings use "Asghar Smitko", or "Asghar Simko" (1953–January 28, 1996) was a Kurdish people, Kurdish Iranian Political activist operating in Turkey. He was found tortured and shot dead by unknown agents of Turkey's MIT Organization and Iran's Intelligence and Security in Istanbul. Background Asghar Simko was born 1953 in Urmia (West Azarbaijan province) in Iran as a son of Tahir-Khan and grandson of Simko Shikak (the great and historical leader of Kurdistan). As of September 1985, he was dwelling in Istanbul, and along with his father he secured communication between members of the Barzani Kurds, Barzani organization. At the same time, he was threatened by the Iranian Intelligence Organization. In 1993, he applied for asylum in a third country. On January 15, 1996, he and his friend Lazım Esmaeili, were abducted by unknown persons from Turkish MIT and Iran's intelligence when they left the casino of Polat Renaissance Hotel in Yeşilköy, İstanbul ...
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Kurdish People
ug:كۇردلار Kurds ( ku, کورد ,Kurd, italic=yes, rtl=yes) or Kurdish people are an Iranian peoples, Iranian ethnic group native to the mountainous region of Kurdistan in Western Asia, which spans southeastern Turkey, northwestern Iran, northern Iraq, and northern Syria. There are exclaves of Kurds in Central Anatolia Region, Central Anatolia, Khorasan Province, Khorasan, and the Caucasus, as well as significant Kurdish diaspora communities in the cities of western Turkey (in particular Istanbul) and Western Europe (primarily Kurds in Germany, in Germany). The Kurdish population is estimated to be between 30 and 45 million. Kurds speak the Kurdish languages and the Zaza–Gorani languages, which belong to the Western Iranian languages, Western Iranian branch of the Iranian languages. After World War I and the defeat of the Ottoman Empire, the victorious Allies of World War I, Western allies made provision for a Kurdish state in the 1920 Treaty of Sevres, Treaty ...
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