«Flight of Icarus? The PYD’s Precarious Rise in Syria». International Crisis Group: Middle East Report N°151. 8 de mayo de 2014. Archivado desde el original el 16 de noviembre de 2020. Consultado el 9 novembre 2020. «: "The Middle East's present-day borders stem largely from the 1916 Sykes-Picot agreement between France and the UK. Deprived of a state of their own, Kurds found themselves living in four different countries, Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Iran. The term 'rojava' ('west' in Kurdish) refers to the western area of 'Kurdistan'; today in practice it includes non-contiguous Kurdish-populated areas of northern Syria where the PYD proclaimed a transitional administration in November 2013.".»
«KURDISH POPULATION IN SYRIA». Sahipkıran Stratejik Araştırmalar Merkezi - SASAM(en tr-TR). 5 de agosto de 2014. Consultado el 12 de noviembre de 2020.
«Kurdish Population in Syria». 5 de agosto de 2014. Archivado desde el original el 22 de octubre de 2018. Consultado el 25 novembre 2017. Various proportions are predicted for Kurds. For example McDowall[8] and O’shea[9] predict 8%, Bruinessen predicts 8.5%,[10] Chailand predicts 10%[11]. Vanly, Kurdish writer, stated that Kurds must be at least 7% of Syrian population
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«Who are Syria's minority groups?». Special Broadcasting Service. 11 de septiembre de 2015. Consultado el 25 novembre 2017. Kurds are the largest ethnic minority in Syria, constituting around 10 per cent of the population - around 2 million of the pre-conflict population of around 22 million.
Fabrice Balance (2018). Sectarianism in Syria's Civil War. Washington, DC: The Washington Institute for Near East Policy. Archivado desde el original el 26 de junio de 2019. Consultado el 25 juin 2019. In this atlas, French geographer Balanche suggests that "As of 2010, Syria’s population was roughly 65% Sunni Arab, 15% Kurdish, 10% Alawite, 5% Christian, 3% Druze, 1% Ismaili, and 1% Twelver Shia." (page 13) "The number of Kurds in Syria is often underestimated by analysts, who tend to cap them at 10% of the population. In fact, they are closer to 15%."(page 16) The 2018 breakdown is 1% Sunni Arab, 16% Kurdish, 13% Alawite, 3% Christian, 4% Druze, 1% Ismaili, 1% Twelver Shia, 1% Turkmen (page 22) Balanche also refers to his Atlas du ProcheOrient Arabe (Paris: Presses de l’Université Paris-Sorbonne, 2011), p. 36."
«Flight of Icarus? The PYD’s Precarious Rise in Syria». International Crisis Group: Middle East Report N°151. 8 de mayo de 2014. Archivado desde el original el 16 de noviembre de 2020. Consultado el 9 novembre 2020. «: "The Middle East's present-day borders stem largely from the 1916 Sykes-Picot agreement between France and the UK. Deprived of a state of their own, Kurds found themselves living in four different countries, Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Iran. The term 'rojava' ('west' in Kurdish) refers to the western area of 'Kurdistan'; today in practice it includes non-contiguous Kurdish-populated areas of northern Syria where the PYD proclaimed a transitional administration in November 2013.".»
Fabrice Balance (2018). Sectarianism in Syria's Civil War. Washington, DC: The Washington Institute for Near East Policy. Archivado desde el original el 26 de junio de 2019. Consultado el 25 juin 2019. In this atlas, French geographer Balanche suggests that "As of 2010, Syria’s population was roughly 65% Sunni Arab, 15% Kurdish, 10% Alawite, 5% Christian, 3% Druze, 1% Ismaili, and 1% Twelver Shia." (page 13) "The number of Kurds in Syria is often underestimated by analysts, who tend to cap them at 10% of the population. In fact, they are closer to 15%."(page 16) The 2018 breakdown is 1% Sunni Arab, 16% Kurdish, 13% Alawite, 3% Christian, 4% Druze, 1% Ismaili, 1% Twelver Shia, 1% Turkmen (page 22) Balanche also refers to his Atlas du ProcheOrient Arabe (Paris: Presses de l’Université Paris-Sorbonne, 2011), p. 36."
«Kurdish Population in Syria». 5 de agosto de 2014. Archivado desde el original el 22 de octubre de 2018. Consultado el 25 novembre 2017. Various proportions are predicted for Kurds. For example McDowall[8] and O’shea[9] predict 8%, Bruinessen predicts 8.5%,[10] Chailand predicts 10%[11]. Vanly, Kurdish writer, stated that Kurds must be at least 7% of Syrian population
