Archive for the ‘Kurdish women’ Category
Kurdish women (Kurdish: Jinên/Afiretên Kurd) have traditionally played important roles in Kurdish history, society and politics.
In Politics
Sharaf-al-Din Bitlisi in Sharafnama written in 1597, mentions three Kurdish women assuming power in Kurdish principalities. Also Evliya Çelebi noted that Kurdish women did occasionally assume power in Kurdistan and Ottoman authorities accepted the succession in those principalities by a female ruler.