Zaze

Zaze ili Dimiliji su iranski narod^[1] u istočnoj Anatoliji odnosno istočnim turskim pokrajinama: Adıyaman, Aksaray, Batman, Bingöl, Diyarbakır, Elazığ, Erzurum, Erzincan (Erzıngan), Gumushane, Kars, Malatya, Mus, Sanliurfa, Sivas i Tunceli. Osim Turske, žive i u Gruziji, a iseljeničke zajednice žive u Njemačkoj, Kazahstanu i Nizozemskoj.

Iako ih se ponekad svrstava u samostalnu etničku skupinu, brojni govornici jezika zazaki smatraju se Kurdima.^[2][3][4][5]

Ima ih od 1 do 2 milijuna. Po vjeri su muslimani suniti i aleviti.

Poznata turska glumica Songül Öden je rodom Zaza.^[6]

1. ↑ G. Asatrian, "DIMLĪ" in Encyclopaedia Iranica. [1]  Arhivirana inačica izvorne stranice od 26. prosinca 2010. (Wayback Machine) "DIM(I)LĪ (or Zāzā), the indigenous name of an Iranian people living mainly in eastern Anatolia, in the Dersim region (present-day Tunceli) between Erzincan (see ARZENJĀN) in the north and the Muratsu (Morādsū, Arm. Aracani) in the south, the far western part of historical Upper Armenia (Barjr Haykʿ)."
2. ↑ "Kurdish Nationalism and Competing Ethnic Loyalties", Original English version of: "Nationalisme kurde et ethnicités intra-kurdes", Peuples Méditerranéens no. 68-69 (1994), 11-37
3. ↑ Kehl-Bodrogi, Krisztina. "Syncretistic religious communities in the Near East: Collected Papers of the International Symposium, Alevism in Turkey and Comparable Syncretistic Religious Communities in the Near East in the Past and Present”, Berlin, 14-17 April 1995
4. ↑ Ozoglu, Hakan. "Kurdish notables and the Ottoman state." Albany: State University of New York Press, 2004
5. ↑ Romano, David. "The Kurdish nationalist movement: opportunity, mobilization, and identity." Cambridge. Cambridge University Press, 2006.
6. ↑ "Kıvanç Tatlıtuğ ile aşk yaşadı mı?", Haber Türk, 27. prosinca 2009.