Editing Population transfer (section)

===Persia===
{{See also|Great Surgun|History_of_the_Kurds#Displacement_of_the_Kurds|Khorasani Kurds}}

Removal of populations from along their borders with the [[Ottoman Turks|Ottomans]] in [[Kurdistan]] and the [[Caucasus]] was of strategic importance to the [[Safavids]]. Hundreds of thousands of [[Kurds]], along with large groups of [[Armenians]], [[Assyrian people|Assyrians]], [[Azeris]], and [[Turkmens]], were forcibly removed from the border regions and resettled in the interior of [[Persia]].That was a means of cutting off contact with other members of the groups across the borders as well as limiting passage of peoples. Under [[Tahmasp I]] the Safavids deported a huge portion of the Kurdish population in [[Anatolia]] to [[Khorasan province|Khorasan]], creating the modern [[Khorasani Kurds]]. Some Kurdish tribes were deported farther east, into [[Gharjistan]] in the [[Hindu Kush]] mountains of [[Afghanistan]], about 1500 miles away from their former homes in [[Syrian Kurdistan|western Kurdistan]].