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In the 20th century most Kurds fled religious persecution in the Ottoman Empire to the Russian Empire. In Georgia Kurds enjoy a higher standard of living than the Kurds in Turkey and the Kurds in Iran and they face no discrimination in Georgia but the return of their Kurdish surnames needs efforts says Kurdish activist in Georgia. The Kurds also have their own schools school books and a printing press in Georgia. Illiteracy among them disappeared in the early 1900s.
