Modern history of Kurdistan

    Hundreds of thousands of men, women and children were executed during a systematic attempt to exterminate the Kurdish population in Iraq in the Anfal operations in the late 1980s. They were tied together and shot so they fell into mass graves. Their towns and villages were attacked by …

Sykes-Picot Agreement 1916 WRITTEN BY: The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica Sykes-Picot Agreement, also called Asia Minor Agreement, (May 1916), secret convention made during World War I between Great Britain and France, with the assent of imperial Russia, for the dismemberment of the Ottoman Empire. The agreement led to the division of Turkish-held Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, and Palestine into various French- and British-administered areas. …

Saikh Saeed who headed the Kurdsih effort to free itself from the Turkish rule in 1925, was the symbol of Kurdish reistance to the the foreign yoke. No rebellion frightened the ” godless” repubic of Turkey more than the Sheykh’s glorious uprising in 1925. His last words before his great …

The Republics of Ararat was declared itself Kurdish state.  It had been established in the present North (Turkish occupy) Kurdistan, and her powers basis was found of in the Agri province.  The name of the Kurdish Republic had to thank one at the mountain of Ararat, this symbol for the …

The first independent Kurdish republic was in Iran. The ‘State of Republic of Kurdistan’ was founded in Mahabad in January 1946 and, although it survived for less than a year, it greatly inspired Kurdish nationalists everywhere. Abdication of Reza Shah The backdrop to this heroic chapter was the Anglo-Soviet invasion …

The glimpse of information from Russian, Ottoman Turkish, and British government sources from early 20th century give us a different look and appreciation the role of Sheikh Abdulsalam Barzani in Kurdistan liberation movements’ history in multiple aspects. The available sources indicate he had a great role across Kurdistan in early 1900s. …

The Kurds in Iran: The Past, Present and Future By Kerim Yildiz, Tanyel B. Taysi Kerim Yildiz, Tanyel B. Taysi-The Kurds in Iran_ The Past, Present and Future (2007) 0

The Kurds in Iraq_ The Past, Present and Future By Kerim Yildiz Kerim Yildiz-The Kurds in Iraq_ The Past, Present and Future (Revised Edition)-Pluto Press in association with Kurdish Human Rights Project (2007)   1+

Historical Dictionary of the Kurds (Historical Dictionaries of People and Cultures By Michael M. Gunter Michael M. Gunter-Historical Dictionary of the Kurds (Historical Dictionaries of People and Cultures, No. 1)-The Scarecrow Press, Inc. (2003) 0

Islam, Kurds and the Turkish Nation State By Christopher Houston   Christopher Houston-Islam, Kurds and the Turkish Nation State (New Technologies New Cultures)-Berg Publishers (2001) 0