During Barzani's visit to Cizre, the presence of the flag of the Kurdistan Federated Region on the shoulders of the bodyguards he brought with the approval of the national authorities caused an uproar. Was that coat of arms the cause of the uproar or was it a public manifestation of hidden hostility?
\nIt was undoubtedly the manifestation of hidden feelings of enmity, which I will now explain one by one, with historical documents. Briefly, without boring you. An important institution asked me for a report on this subject, I prepared it, gave it to them, and wanted to share the summary with you.
\nAlthough you will not find a single sentence about the Kurds in the Turkish Political History, which was dictated by big professors by the junta and the dirty and shameful parts were removed, unfortunately, there are no Kurds in the written Turkish Political History, even though the fateful union of Turks and Kurds dates back to before the Crusades.
\nThe imperial powers that divided the Kurds into four parts in the Middle East a hundred years ago caused the Kurds to be subjected to many massacres in the Middle East.
\nIt is a pity that the Kurds, who have lived through so many dramas in these four parts, who have been martyred on the same fronts with the Turks for a thousand years, who have given and received daughters, whose fates are united like the back of a glove, do not have a single emphasis on the Kurds in the narrative of Turkish political history.
\nThere are many reasons for this, such as assimilation, but I will not go into that for now, let me just say that this history based on official ideology is a history far from reality, impartiality, conscience and sense of justice.
\nThe history of the Kurdish people is actually a history of rebellion...
\nI will not repeat what everyone already knows, but I will underline important points about the Kurds written by US and British scholars and historians that have never been mentioned before.
\nAccording to American historians and intelligence reports, the Kurds...
\n\u201cThe Kurds are one of the oldest peoples living in the Near East. Known as Guti and Kurtle, they date back several thousand years.
\nEarly Greek historians and geographers, including Strabo and Zenophon.
\nThey spoke of the Kurdish people and at times described them as a community living within the borders of \u201cKurdistan\u201d.
\nThe same word \u201cKurd\u201d has been used by Arab writers since the ninth century.
\nDespite their long history, the Kurds fought with the Iranians against the Arab conquests in the 9th century, and with the Iranians against the Arab advance.
\nThe Kurdish homeland corresponds to the current national borders. It encompasses inaccessible mountainous regions stretching northeast of Iraq, northwest of Iran, southeast of Turkey and south of Azerbaijan.
\nOn the other hand, Kurdish communities living separately can be found beyond these borders.
\nIn northern Iraq, Kurds and Assyrians fought against the British because of the British support for the Arabs.\u201d
\nLet me open a parenthesis here, especially some Ataturkists, some nationalists and extreme Turkish nationalists, historians and politicians claiming that the British support the Kurds in their books, articles, social media posts and all their meetings are completely lies and the result of motivated feelings of hostility.
\nThe British never helped the Kurds in rebellions such as the Sheikh Sait rebellion during the Republican period, nor during the Ottoman period.
\nThe slanders of some Atat\u00fcrkists that Sheikh Said and Said Nursi were British agents and received support from the British have never been documented. Their feelings of enmity are the strongest lie they resort to in order to reinforce the legitimacy of their lies and to humiliate those they see as enemies.
\nSo far they have not proved a single document that the British helped the Kurds.\u201d
\nThe report said the Barzanis
\n\u201cThe Barzanis are not a tribe but a confederation of villages...\u201d
\nThe following findings about Barzani and his family in the CIA report on the Kurds are noteworthy.
\n\u201cThe Barzanis are not a tribe. At the beginning of the 19th century, they are a confederation of villages that came together as a result of a religious movement.
\nIn Iran in the 1920s and in Iraq in 1931, rebellions were organized under the leadership of Sheikh Mahmoud.\u2019<\/p>\n
Intelligence reports indicate that even during the most violent periods of the uprisings, Kurdish unity was never \u201cabsolute\u201d.
\nAmong the Kurds, some stray mercenaries fought on the side of the government during the war, while other tribes switched sides from time to time.
\nOther families made their fortunes by remaining neutral.
\nThere were seven coups in Iraq between 1937 and 1941.
\nIn 1920, he wrote a telegram to Davud Efendi, the son of Haydarizade Sheikhulislam \u0130brahim Efendi, who had come to Diyarbak\u0131r from Kirkuk, saying \u201cDo not leave under the protection of the British\u201d.
\nRussia's Kurdish Card in the CIA Report...
\n\u201cThe USSR has been interested in mobilizing the Kurds since the end of the Second World War.
\nIn 1945, it was the driving force behind the People's Republic of Azerbaijan as well as the Kurdish Republic of Mahabad in Iran.
\nA similar \u201cKurdish Republic\u201d was once established in Iraq but died in its infancy.
\nThe Kurds' constant resistance to assimilation among the surrounding peoples and their persistence in this resistance is an indication of how morally tolerant they are.
\nKurdish is an Indo-European language and ranks eighth in the world.\u201d
\nOpening a parenthesis here again, the Turkish parliament and Turkish courts have so far used the most degrading and humiliating expressions about the Kurdish language, calling it \u201cunknown language, unknown dialect, unknown x language\u201d.
\nThis is an example of 100 years of reckless assimilation.
\nThe CIA report also emphasizes the following:
\n\u201cKurds don't trust civilian courts.
\n\u201cKurds generally distrust civilian courts, and they are often right to do so.
\nKurds have always been subjected to the rule of foreign governments.
\nIn the 17th century, the Persian and Ottoman governments absorbed the whole of \u201cKurdistan\u201d between themselves.<\/p>\n
It focuses on three main personalities. Sheikh Mahmoud from Sulaymaniyah and two brothers in the Barzani clan, Sheikh Ahmad and Mullah Mustafa Barzani.
\nSheikh Mahmoud had gained a significant degree of independence in the First World War.
\nUntil the 1926 Treaty of Ankara settled the border dispute between Turkey and British-controlled Iraq over Mosul. Sheikh Mahmoud then led a series of uprisings against government forces.\u201d
\nAgain, the Ataturkists distort this issue and attribute the Sheikh Sait rebellion and the support of the British to this event, which, as we have seen, is not the case at all.
\nMoreover, the following statement of the British embassy clearly reveals their lies. The man says;
\n\u201cIf we had supported the Kurds, Mustafa Kemal would not have been able to establish the Turkish Republic...\u201d
\nThe report summarizes the attitude of the Turks as follows:
\n\u201cThe Turks are extremely sensitive to any demonstration of nationalism by the Kurds on their borders.
\nAlthough Kurds have recently been labeled as \u201cMountain Turks\u201d, they are still seen by Turks as a serious potential threat to internal stability and the indivisible integrity of the state.
\nDespite the Turks' dislike of the Baathist regime and the Baathists' alliance with the Soviet Union, the Turkish government sees militant Kurdish nationalism as a threat.
\nMullah Mustafa Barzani was the leader of the Kurdish rebellion of 1943 and military commander of the Kurdish Republic of Mahabad, which was established in Iran in 1946.
\nIn power since July 7, 1968, the Iraqi Baath Party is part of the Pan-Arab ideological movement that was founded in Syria a quarter of a century ago.
\nAlthough the Kurds are the fourth most populous people in the Middle East (after Arabs, Turks and Iranians), for a number of reasons they have not achieved territorial independence.
\nThe tribal structure, differences in religion and dialect, and obstacles at the national level have prevented Kurds from developing a real sense of unity. As a result, Kurdish nationalist groups have chosen to act independently of each other.
\nCompeting factions within Turkey, Iran and Iraq have always joined forces to frustrate Kurdish demands for separatism or autonomy.
\nThe British promised the Kurds autonomy in 1922, but did not fulfill it.
\nThe first sign of Kurdish political nationalism was the rebellion led by Ubeydullah of \u015eemdinli from \u015eemzinan in the 1880s.
\nThe rebellion aimed to unite the Kurdish peoples under the Turkish and Persian empires into a single state. But the rebellion failed when both empires cooperated to eliminate this threat.\u201d
\nSecret Report CIA September 1992
\n\u201cDisagreements between the Kurds and the Iraqi Kurds' dependence on Turkey will prevent the establishment of sustained cross-border cooperation between the two countries.
\nAnkara, Baghdad and Tehran will resort to harsh military methods to stop Kurdish rebellions. Yet they will not succeed in suppressing Kurdish nationalist sentiments.
\nHowever, if Operation Enduring Peace \/ Hammer Force were to end, Saddam would surely have brought the Kurds to their knees.
\nIf a serious pro-Kurdish independence movement develops - which is unlikely - the West may be forced to change its long-standing policy and facilitate the peaceful emergence of a new ethnic state.
\nOn the one hand, it will try to protect its strategic interests in the existing states.\u201d<\/p>\n
The report also emphasizes the following:
\n\u201cIn addition to differences in language and ideology, historical experience must also be mentioned as an obstacle to the fulfillment of Kurdish demands.
\nKurdish tribes and groups have traditionally always been in competition with each other.
\nThere have not been many periods of stable cooperation with each other.
\nThis trend is best exemplified by the combative relationship between the Iraqi Kurdish leaders Masoud Barzani (KDP) and Jalal Talabani (PUK) and between them and PKK leader Abdullah \u00d6calan.<\/p>\n
An autonomous Kurdish state in northern Iraq could form the nucleus of a Kurdish state, possibly encompassing the territory of Turkey, Iran and Syria.
\nBut such a structure will not survive, it will be ephemeral.
\nBecause a Kurdish state, surrounded by a vast mountainous area and, most importantly, landlocked, would be dependent on its neighbors for access to trade routes, trading partners and secure borders; and without more sophisticated weaponry and international guarantees of its borders, it would be very difficult to defend and survive.\u201d<\/p>\n
May 29, 1969...
\nIntelligence Document (Report)
\nTalabani and a group of his supporters attempted to ambush Barzani and his supporters. The attempt failed and some 60 Talabani supporters were killed. Both Talabani and Barzani escaped unharmed.<\/p>\n
June 7, 1972 DOCUMENT 31<\/p>\n
National Security Council
\nMessage from Shah to Kurds!
\n\u201cThe main arguments that we should support the Kurds...
\nTo allow or encourage the continued existence of the Kurds in Iraq in order to use them as a source of instability, thus preventing Soviet efforts to support a national unity government in Iraq in order to further strengthen their own position.
\nThe Iranians, Jordanians and Israelis have at times supported the Kurds as a way of keeping Iraqi forces at home.
\nTherefore, the security of the Kurds is our concern.
\nIn addition, there is the possibility of continued Iraqi involvement in Gulf affairs, and creating internal instability through the Kurds would help to weaken this involvement.
\nIn the context of the Moscow summit talks, we need to consider the implications of supporting the Kurds.
\nSince the Soviets had recently made an attempt to persuade the Kurds to join the Ba'ath Party in the national unity government in Baghdad, support for the Kurds would be perceived as a direct anti-Soviet move.
\nAfter 15 years of exile in the Soviet Union, Mullah Mustafa Barzani returned in 1958, steadily increased his power, defeated his rivals, broke the arrogance of the Iraqi army on the battlefield, played a role in overthrowing the governments in Baghdad and occasionally negotiated with them.
\nThe cries of the unrecognized nation echoed in the Kurdish mountains...\u201d the report says.
\nPerhaps it is time for everyone to show a fair, conscientious and moral approach to solve the Kurdish issue, not to strangle it.
\nNeither the Turks nor the Kurds will gain anything with feelings of enmity...<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Barzani\u2019nin Cizre ziyareti s\u0131ras\u0131nda, ulusal makamlar\u0131n da onay\u0131yla getirdi\u011fi korumalar\u0131n omzundaki K\u00fcrdistan Federe B\u00f6lgesinin bayra\u011f\u0131n\u0131n olmas\u0131 k\u0131yametin kopar\u0131lmas\u0131na neden oldu. Kopar\u0131lan k\u0131yametin sebebi o arma m\u0131yd\u0131 yoksa gizlenen d\u00fc\u015fmanl\u0131\u011f\u0131n alenen d\u0131\u015fa vurumu muydu? \u015e\u00fcphesiz ki gizlenen d\u00fc\u015fmanl\u0131k duygular\u0131n\u0131n d\u0131\u015fa vurumu idi ve \u015fimdi tek tek a\u00e7\u0131klayaca\u011f\u0131m, hem de tarihi belgelerle. Az-\u00f6z, sizi s\u0131kmadan. \u00d6nemli bir […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":280390,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[286],"tags":[15,78,288],"class_list":{"0":"post-280389","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-yazarlar","8":"tag-chp","9":"tag-kemal-kilicdaroglu","10":"tag-ozgur-ozel"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280389"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":280391,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280389\/revisions\/280391"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}