"region of Kurds") or Greater Kurdistan is a roughly defined geo-cultural historical region wherein the Kurdish people form a prominent majority population and Kurdish culture, languages, … The operation succeeded in Syria, but the Erdogan Administration had to identify soon a new ‘danger’ in Northern Iraq, where the Iraqi Kurdish Regional Government, controlled by Kurdish pro-independence parties, sets the date for an independence referendum on September 25, 2017.
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The Flag of Kurdistan (Kurdish: ئاڵای کوردستان ,Alaya Kurdistanê ) was created by Xoybûn during the Ararat rebellion against Turkey in 1928, where it was hoisted by thousands of Kurdish rebels. However, in 2014, during the war against the “Islamic State” (In Iraq, the Kurdish government of Erbil controls almost all the territory the Kurdish nationalist ever claimed in Iraq (the Not surprisingly, if for the Kurds the “liberation” of However, the establishment of the Kurdish autonomous governments in the Northern Syria and Iraq seems to be a In Iran, the central government succeeded to manage the conflict with the Kurdish insurgency, thanks to a stick-and-carrot approach, but the situation is different in Turkey. In 1991, after the Gulf War, a new Kurdish revolt challenged the Iraqi government and, a year later, the Kurdish nationalists will establish a Kurdistan Regional Government. In order to reduce the possibility of a major conflict with other nationalist movements, the State of Kurdistan had only to incorporate the predominantly Kurdish regions of the Turkish Eastern Anatolia, the Northern Syria, the Iraqi Kurdistan and the Iranian Kurdistan, with an access to the Mediterranean Sea.In Turkey, the most radical Kurdish organization, the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (Often described as one of the largest national communities in the world without their own state, the Kurds, numbering somewhere between 25 and 30 million, In Iraq, the relations between the Kurdish community and the central government have known a very sinuous course after the WWII. The Treaty of Sèvres has been annulled and the new Treaty of Lausanne (1923) produced results less favorable to the Kurds. The defeat of the Ottomans in the WWI had already opened the way to the disintegration of the Ottoman multinational state. © 2020 Sputnik. In fact, Turkey didn’t recognize Kurdish aspirations for autonomy and the Kurds became “Mountain Turks”...After the WWII, the Kurdish nationalist organizations changed their major objective and, with regard to the Kurdistan’s territory, they opted for a lesser objectionable frontier. According to the Treaty of Sèvres (1920), it was accepted a local autonomy within the Turkish State for the predominantly Kurdish areas lying east of the Euphrates, south of the southern boundary of (the Wilsonian) Armenia and north of the frontier of Turkey with Syria and Mesopotamia.If within one year from the coming into force of the Treaty of Sèvres the Kurdish people within this Kurdish autonomous entity would have asked for the independence from Turkey, the Great Powers would have accepted the establishment of an independent Kurdish State. Without their own state, the Kurds have seen the Kurdistan, “the land of the Kurds”, divided mainly between these neighbors (the present-day states of Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Iran). © 21, 1988–1989, p. 281, by Société des études armeniennes, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Published by Imprimerie nationale, P. Geuthner, 1989.T. To improve the performance of our website, show the most relevant news products and targeted advertising, we collect technical impersonal information about you, including through the tools of our partners.