they look a lot closer to kurds than the iranians do lol
i really think that kurds look like a mix of cypriots + georgians + tajiks
I guess they do. They have those longer, wider and square heads kurds have.
I think it has to do with cultural life-style + climate. Turkey kurds lives in a more northern climate compared to many iranians + lives a life-style(and their ancestors did as well) that gives them those feautures they share with pamiris.
Iranians however lives in a hotter climate and probably lives a more comfortable life-style and so did their ancestors, so they end up looking different to kurds in comparison to pamiris, even though latter is actually far closer to pashtuns like me autosomally than any kurd