Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p In the 20th century, most Kurds fled religious persecution in the Ottoman Empire to the Russian Empire. In Georgia, Kurds enjoy a higher standard of living than the Kurds in Turkey and the Kurds in Iran and they face no discrimination in Georgia, but the return of their Kurdish surnames needs efforts, says Kurdish activist in Georgia. The Kurds also have their own schools, school books and a printing press in Georgia. Illiteracy among them disappeared in the early 1900s. According to a United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees rerport from 1998, about 80% of the Kurdish population in Georgia are Yazidi Kurds. Kurds in Georgia are politically neutral, however in 1999, they staged a huge demonstration in Tbilisi, demanding the release of the founder of Kurdistan Workers' Party, Abdullah Ocalan. Kurds in Georgia use Cyrillic script. Earlier in the 1920s, they used the Latin script.. }
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- Kurds_in_Georgia abstract "In the 20th century, most Kurds fled religious persecution in the Ottoman Empire to the Russian Empire. In Georgia, Kurds enjoy a higher standard of living than the Kurds in Turkey and the Kurds in Iran and they face no discrimination in Georgia, but the return of their Kurdish surnames needs efforts, says Kurdish activist in Georgia. The Kurds also have their own schools, school books and a printing press in Georgia. Illiteracy among them disappeared in the early 1900s. According to a United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees rerport from 1998, about 80% of the Kurdish population in Georgia are Yazidi Kurds. Kurds in Georgia are politically neutral, however in 1999, they staged a huge demonstration in Tbilisi, demanding the release of the founder of Kurdistan Workers' Party, Abdullah Ocalan. Kurds in Georgia use Cyrillic script. Earlier in the 1920s, they used the Latin script.".