Marriage Kurd-Turks

[Benny]

Hi all,

been thinking about something - does anybody know any statistics about relationships "across the line"? Do Kurds and Turks marry? Is it ok e.g. for a Kurdish girl to be sweetheart with a Turkish boy (or the other way around)?

/B

[Londoner]

Hi all,

been thinking about something - does anybody know any statistics about relationships "across the line"? Do Kurds and Turks marry? Is it ok e.g. for a Kurdish girl to be sweetheart with a Turkish boy (or the other way around)?

/B

Nature doesn't recognise people by their ethnic origin. So a Kurd can fall for a Turk or Arab or Persian and visa versa.

[Anthea]

The vast majority of Kurds marry their cousins or other family members

The only Kurds who I personally know to have married Turks - have been fairly well educated and/or met at university

[Benny]

Ok, many thanks for you answers! Perhaps it's getting more and more common that people meet across the group boundaries. I mean younger people today are more mobile than before, both geographically and socially. Perhaps also a bit more independent? Anyway, it's a comforting thing for an old romantic like me, that love really has no boundaries.

/B

[Piling]

Be careful, in some families, religion can be more important than ethnicity. For example, if an Alevi wants to marry with Muslim, it could create conflict with families more than the issue of Kurds vs Turks. The same with Yezidi and Muslims. Generally, religions minorities prefer to marry each others than to marry the dominant religion, that is islam in Kurdistan.

So it depends on the political/religious background the family. Marriages in Kurdistan are not only a private affair between 2 people even if, in diaspora, many Kurds tend to marry foreigners.