DOI: 10.7160/KS.2022.190204 Author: J. Otto Pohl Affiliation: Independent researcher Email: j.ottopohl@gmail.com Language: English Issue: 2/2022 (19) Pages: 78–92 (15 pages) Keywords: Kurds, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, NKVD, special settlers Abstract Soviet policy towards its Kurdish minority shifted from supporting their cultural development during the 1920s and early 1930s to a more repressive policy from 1937–1956 and then…
