| Deportation of Kurds in the Soviet Union | |
|---|---|
| Part of Population transfer in the Soviet Union and Mass operations of the NKVD | |
 Kurdistan Uezd within Azerbaijan SSR in 1920s | |
| Location | Caucasus |
| Date | July 1937, March 1944, November 1944 |
| Target | Caucasian Kurds |
Attack type | Forcible displacement, ethnic cleansing |
| Perpetrators | NKVD |
| Motive | "Frontier cleansing" |
The Kurds were deported from Azerbaijan SSR, Georgian SSR, and Armenian SSR by the Soviet secret police NKVD in 1937 and 1944 and sent to special settlements in Central Asia.[1] During the July 1937 deportation, approximately 1,325 Kurds were deported.[2] In March, 3,240 Kurds and Azerbaijanis were deported from Tbilisi.[3] In November 1944 the Kurds of Georgian SSR were also sent to the "special colonies", including those in Siberia, and were resettled there, as part of the deportation of the Meskhetian Turks, when 8,694 Kurds were deported.[4] Most adult males were deported separately from females and children with their fate unknown.[5]
- ^ Human Rights Watch 1991, p. 71.
- ^ Marshall 2012, p. 500.
- ^ Polian 2003, p. 75, 85.
- ^ Polian 2004, p. 154.
- ^ Vanly (1992), p. 160.