Zaza People live in Middle and Eastern of Turkey. Is is not certain but it is estimated that 5-6 million Zaza people lives in Anatolia. They can not speak their own language, because Turkish Government have banned it since formation of the country, 1923. Therefore , they revolted three times against the government to gain their rights.


The Zaza / Dimili (Kirmanc) - Like all inhabitants of present day Anatolia, the origins of the Zaza / Dimili (Kirmanc) are not fully clear. The most likely theory, however, is that they are the descendants of the ancient Dailamites, who inhibited the mountainous southwestern region of the Caspian Sea shore known as Dailam. Fierce warriors, in search of conquest. Sometime between 800 AD, and 1000 AD, it is thought, a large group of Dailamites reached Anatolia.

The closest people to the Zaza / Dimili are the Kurds. But certain similarities does not automatically mean that the Zaza / Dimili are Kurds - no more than the several cultural and linguistic similarities between the Portuguese, the Italians and the Spanish automatically mean these three distinct nations are one.

http://members.tripod.com/~zaza_kirmanc/research/zkm.htm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqV-kbv4ca0&NR=1