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For large parts of its of the female This, though, incurred the wrath of the the huge empires which formed much of history, Turkey has banned all division of central government in Baghdad and its the world’s primary political structures IRAN expressions of Kurdish identity, the People’s close allies in Iran, both of whom rising army of subscribers - in 2019 not were disintegrating, notably the 80.8 million including the language and any Protection Units strongly oppose any changes to Iraq’s neighbouring Austro-Hungarian and suggestion that a Kurdish people even (YPG), take part borders. Ottoman empires. TURKEY exists. Until 1991, Ankara officially in the funeral of Tehran fears the precedent this could A spirit of freedom and optimistic categorised them as ‘mountain Turks’. eight comrades set for Iran’s own Kurdish population. nationalism swept those territories and Traditional Kurdish resistance to the in Derek, Rojava The Iranian and Iraqi push-back resulted ultimately led to the formation of many Turkish state was overtaken in the 1970s in the Kurds losing control of the of the independent countries that exist by the more militant, Marxist-influenced 2 Green valleys strategically important city of Kirkuk 8.1 million and mountain only did The New European celebrate its today. (10%) Kurdish Workers’ Party (PKK) led by and the oil-rich region around it. The Kurds were a part of this wave. SYRIA Abdullah Öcalan. scenery around It remains to be seen too what fate will They formed a significant element of the The decades of violence that followed the rocky now befall the abandoned Kurds of opposition to the, by now, corrupt and during the de facto war between Turkey plateau of the northern Syria. As well as Syria and despotic Ottoman rulers in Istanbul. The IRAQ IRAN and the PKK cost the lives of more than the Kurdish Turkey, outside powers such as Russia last remnants of the empire finally IRAQ 40,000 people. Öcalan was captured by town of Amedi- and Saudi Arabia also have a significant collapsed at the end of the First World 32.6 million the Turks in 1999 and remains in jail Amadiya role to play. War, in which it had been one of the (having spent the years 1999 to 2009 as None of these parties have the Kurds’ 150th issue, it also reached a file size of defeated powers. The aftermath appeared the sole prisoner on the island of Imrali). Photos: best interests at heart. to offer the prospect of an independent He now claims to have renounced Getty Images The Saudis are seeking to use them as Kurdish nation. Instead, it turned out to 5.5 million violence. His socialist and feminist a tool against their own enemies – Assad be when the modern story of the betrayal (17.5%) philosophies were a powerful influence and his Iranian backers. Having lost US of the Kurds truly began. on the recent Rojava campaign. They support, the Rojavan Kurds’ leaders are In August 1920, the victorious First disappointment to the Kurds. While it This created the problem the Kurds are also enjoying something of a now being reduced to the grim but least- World War Allied powers gathered in promised them independence, it offered have been stuck with ever since. They Graphic: CIA renaissance in global leftist circles. The 2 worst option of negotiating an over 8200 unique subscribers. Sèvres, on the outskirts of Paris, to less than half of their traditional land, have frequently been a pawn of the World Factbook SYRIA reverence for Öcalan sometimes teeters accommodation with Damascus and 18 million much of which laid to the west of the on becoming a Chairman Mao-style cult Moscow. divide up the administration of the world’s great powers and never a priority Right, the Euphrates. The promise also excluded the of personality. They hope this will at least offer them former Ottoman territories. At the time, for them. number and oil-rich region around Mosul (now in The Kurds of northern Iraq have been some semblance of protection against the the Kurds appeared to have as good a case The post-First World War realignment proportion of northern Iraq), which was given to 1.7 million perhaps the most successful in asserting renewed onslaught threatened by Turkey. as anyone for independence and enjoyed left the Kurds scattered as minorities Kurds in each France to administer. (9.7%) some form of independence. Since the Erdogan sees Rojava as a potential safe the backing of US president Woodrow across four countries: Iran, Iraq, Turkey country Wilson, among others. The debate about whether the glass and Syria. This fragmentation makes first Iraq War in 1991, they have steadily haven for Turkey’s own Kurdish As almost every Kurd knows, Article 62 was half-full or half-empty soon ceased to establishing a strong and unified Kurdish built up a territory that is largely resistance groups and is not prepared to of the Treaty of Sèvres committed the matter. In the end the Kurds got nothing. independence campaign extremely self-governing. tolerate its existence just across the Allies to establishing a Kurdish self- The new Turkish Republic under complex. Disunity born of differing In keeping with Kurdish history, Syrian border. governing territory “in those regions Kemal Atatürk strongly opposed Kurdish circumstances has often bedevilled the though, this progress only came after Numbering an estimated 28 million where the Kurdish element is independence and the powers mandated Kurds. many decades of horrific oppression. people, the Kurds remain arguably the preponderant lying east of the River to run most of the rest of the region, Each of the four states in which the TURKEY A previous attempt to seek world’s largest nation without a country Euphrates, to the south of a still-to-be Britain and France, were not much Kurds live in significant numbers has 81.6 million independence during the 1980-88 Iran- of their own.