^Armenian News-NEWS.am, "Armenian President congratulates Kurds on Novruz", March 21, 2011. Accessed via online: [1] (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆) at March 22, 2011
^Kerim Yildiz, "The Kurds in Syria: the forgotten people" (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆), Pluto Press in association with Kurdish Human Rights Project, 2005. pp 119-120:"Given Syria's general antipathy towards the Kurds, it is easy to see that Newroz causes tension each year, as it also does in Turkey."
^Emma Sinclair-Webb, Human Rights Watch (Organization), "Turkey, Closing ranks against accountability" (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆), Human Rights Watch, 2008.
"The traditional Newroz/Nevruz celebrations, mainly celebrated by the Kurdish population in Turkey and taking place around March 21"
^ 4.04.14.2Josef W. Meri, Jere L. Bacharach, "Medieval Islamic Civilization: L-Z, index ", Taylor & Francis, 2006. pp 605: "Buyid rulers such as Azud al-Dawla resusciated a number of pre-islamic Iranian practices, most notably the titular of shahanshah (king of kings) and the celebration of the Persian New Year