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ArameansNestorian and Jacobite Arameans
"The foreign or at least non-Kurdish stocks may briefly be enumerated as the Arabo-Aramean population of Mossul, the pure Arameans as typified in the Nestorian and Jacobite Christians of Ain Kawa, Akra, and Keni Sanjak, the Turkish peoples of Altyn Kiopru, Kerkuk and Erbil, and the Bedawin and Felahin Arabs on the banks of the Tigris and the plains eastward of Mossul."
"The presence of the latter are denoted by a black. The question as to whether these Nestorian Christians of Hakkiari, who have a tribal organisation, are indigenous Kurds or fugitive Christians of Aramean stock, is I think still open; several learned Kurdish notables are of opinion that the Nestorians of Hakkiari are Kurds who were converted to Christianity before the advent of Al Islam; on the other hand the Christian clergy are firmly convinced that this is not the ease."
Mark Sykes explicitly classifies the Nestorian and Jacobite Christians of Ain Kawa, Akra, and Keni Sanjak as "pure Arameans", viewing them as a distinct, non-Kurdish population.
"The presence of the latter are denoted by a black. The question as to whether these Nestorian Christians of Hakkiari, who have a tribal organisation, are indigenous Kurds or fugitive Christians of Aramean stock, is I think still open; several learned Kurdish notables are of opinion that the Nestorians of Hakkiari are Kurds who were converted to Christianity before the advent of Al Islam; on the other hand the Christian clergy are firmly convinced that this is not the ease."
Mark Sykes explicitly classifies the Nestorian and Jacobite Christians of Ain Kawa, Akra, and Keni Sanjak as "pure Arameans", viewing them as a distinct, non-Kurdish population.