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refugees.","findings":[{"id":"diaspora-finding","name":"Diaspora","description":"Diaspora.","questions":[{"text":"Where are diaspora and refugee communities, and how did they form?","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"Which entry fits a specific community?","kind":"action"}]}]}]},{"id":"history","name":"History","description":"History and politics.","layers":[{"id":"past","name":"Past","description":"History.","findings":[{"id":"past-finding","name":"Past","description":"Past.","questions":[{"text":"How did Kurdish history develop from medieval principalities through the Ottoman and Persian empires to the post-1918 division?","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"Which references are standard?","kind":"provenance"}]}]},{"id":"status","name":"Status","description":"Political status.","findings":[{"id":"status-finding","name":"Status","description":"Status.","questions":[{"text":"How do sources describe the political status of Kurds in each state, autonomy movements and conflicts, with positions attributed?","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"Is the presentation attributed and neutral?","kind":"boundary"}]}]}]},{"id":"rights","name":"Rights","description":"Rights and culture.","layers":[{"id":"rights","name":"Rights","description":"Rights and persecution.","findings":[{"id":"rights-finding","name":"Rights","description":"Rights.","questions":[{"text":"What do rights bodies document about persecution, displacement and language rights?","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"Which entry fits minority rights?","kind":"action"}]}]},{"id":"culture","name":"Culture","description":"Culture.","findings":[{"id":"culture-finding","name":"Culture","description":"Culture.","questions":[{"text":"What are notable features of Kurdish culture, such as Newroz, music and literature?","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"Which entry fits Kurdish culture?","kind":"action"}]}]}]}]},"agentConduct":{"may":["Describe Kurdish history, culture and languages from scholarly and community sources.","Report population estimates with ranges and sources, noting they are disputed."],"mustNot":["Use stereotypes or slurs about Kurds or equate Kurds with any armed group.","Present contested political questions, such as statehood or autonomy, as settled.","Identify or profile individuals as Kurdish from names or data without consent.","Erase or deny Kurdish identity or language."],"requiresHuman":["Publishing information about individuals that could expose them to persecution."]},"ethics":{"considerations":["Kurds have faced persecution, mass killings and bans on their language.","Many Kurds are refugees and their safety depends on privacy."],"affectedParties":["Kurdish people","Kurdish refugees and diaspora","Minorities in the region"]},"owners":{"steward":"Nobody owns a people; Kurdish communities and institutions speak for themselves.","roles":[],"masterSystems":[]},"relations":[{"target":"Q100448011","type":"parent","note":"registry parent class"},{"target":"Q1672477","type":"parent","note":"registry parent class"},{"target":"Iranian peoples","type":"related","note":"in registry terms"},{"target":"Middle Easterners","type":"related","note":"in registry terms"},{"target":"Kurdish languages","type":"related","note":"the languages"},{"target":"Kurdistan","type":"related","note":"the region"}],"interaction":{"identity":{"applicability":"required","items":["Vercy registry: vr.tr.kurds","Wikidata: Q12223 (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q12223)"]},"properties":{"applicability":"not-applicable","items":["population: about 30-45 million people - estimates vary widely; no censuses count ethnicity in most states"]},"recognition":{"applicability":"optional","items":["Kurdish-speaking people of Kurdistan region","Self-designation Kurd, in Kurdish Kurd or Kurmanc","Kurdistan as a region has no agreed borders; the Kurdistan Region of Iraq is an autonomous region","No defining physical appearance; identity is linguistic, cultural and historical."]},"capabilities":{"applicability":"required","items":["explain identity, language and religion","relay demographic figures with sources","present history and political status with attribution","describe diaspora and refugee communities"]},"hazards":{"applicability":"required","items":["Presenting contested political questions as settled","Unsourced population figures","Ignoring persecution documented by rights bodies","Conflating Kurds with specific political organisations"]},"interfaces":{"applicability":"required","items":["Minority rights frameworks in countries of residence","Iraqi constitution recognising the Kurdistan Region","Refugee law for displaced Kurds","Language rights provisions where they exist"]},"context":{"applicability":"required","items":["Not applicable; a people.","Kurds in Turkey, Iraq, Iran and Syria","Kurds in the Caucasus and Central Asia","tribal and regional groups such as Jalali, Jalilavand and Shabankara","diaspora communities in Europe and elsewhere","Kurdish refugees and displaced people"]}},"sources":[{"title":"Wikidata item Q12223: Kurds","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q12223","note":"identity and sense of the item"},{"title":"Wikipedia: Kurds","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurds","note":"general description of the item"}],"openQuestions":["Should Kurdish languages and the Kurdistan Region be the primary linked entries?","How should census and rights sources be linked?","The registry entry has merged aliases naming tribal groups and refugee populations; should they be split off?"],"resources":{"spec":"/models/things/publications/thing-q12223/spec.json"},"provenance":{"origin":"thing registry research (pass 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