Sherko, also ''Şêrko'', is a
Kurdish
Kurdish may refer to:
*Kurds or Kurdish people
*Kurdish languages
*Kurdish alphabets
*Kurdistan, the land of the Kurdish people which includes:
**Southern Kurdistan
**Eastern Kurdistan
**Northern Kurdistan
**Western Kurdistan
See also
* Kurd (dis ...
given name for males and may refer to:
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Asad Ad-Din Sherko, a Kurdish General of
Zengid
The Zengid dynasty was a Muslim dynasty of Oghuz Turkic origin, which ruled parts of the Levant and Upper Mesopotamia on behalf of the Seljuk Empire and eventually seized control of Egypt in 1169. In 1174 the Zengid state extended from Tripoli to ...
army and uncle of
Saladin
Yusuf ibn Ayyub ibn Shadi () ( – 4 March 1193), commonly known by the epithet Saladin,, ; ku, سهلاحهدین, ; was the founder of the Ayyubid dynasty. Hailing from an ethnic Kurdish family, he was the first of both Egypt and ...
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Sherko Bekas
Sherko Fayaq Abdullah (; 2 May 1940 – 4 August 2013), was a Kurdish poet. He was born on 2 May 1940 in Sulaymaniyah, Kurdistan Region in Iraq as the son of the poet Fayak Bekas. He is widely regarded as the greatest Kurdish national poet, an ...
(born 1940), Kurdish poet
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Sherko Haji-Rasouli
Sherko Haji-Rasouli (born September 1, 1980) is a former Iranian professional football player. But now a Canadian football player. He played for the Montreal Alouettes and BC Lions of the Canadian Football League.
College career
Haji-Ra ...
(born 1980), Canadian football player from Iran
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Sherko Moarefi, Kurdish-Iranian activist
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Sherko Karim
Sherko Karim Lateef Gubari ( ar, شيركو كريم لطيف, ; born 25 May 1996) is an Iraqi professional footballer who plays as a forward for Kuwait Premier League club Kuwait SC.
Early life
Born in Kirkuk, Karim made his first steps on th ...
, Iraqi-Kurdish footballer
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