"Kurdistan- "The Fertile/Golden Crescent"... the country where civilization was born, is now ruined beyond recognition, mainly by the Turkish occupation.”

A brief summary of Kurdistan's history of colonization

The river basin around Eufrates and Tigris, which historically is called Mesopotamia, was a cosmopolitan mixture of several cultures. Mesopotamia influenced all countries in the ancient world to a high degree.

The Mesopotamian culture originates from the firtile river basins of Eufrates and Tigris, on the highlands of Kurdistan where civilization was born. Here crops were grown for the first time, the wheel was invented and the art of making cheese developed. A 5000-year-old menu, a rock carving, was found when excavating close to the city of Hewlêr in southern Kurdistan. (Iraqi Kurdistan) In the Midde East, Several dynasties have ruled in history, such as the Guties, the Kyrties (year 3000 BC. And the Meds (year 500 BC.), from wich the Kurds themselves originates. In the bible the Kurds are mentioned as Hurritians. In modern history Kurdistan was a self-governing province under the multi-national Ottoman rule until 1919, when the Ottoman Empire fell. Many peoples then had the opportunity to free themselves from this “the peoples prison” and become independent. In the Paris convent wich took place in 1919, after the First World War, the victorious powers decided that the Kurds should be allowed to form their own state on the ruins of the Ottoman state, like the Armenians in todays northern Kurdistan. (the Turkish part of Kurdistan) and parts of southern Kurdistan.

But during the Sevre and Lozans peace treaties that decicion was never ratified because of European backup for Turkish nationalist politics, especially by the English governmental delegation. Prospecting by English state oil companies in Kurdish areas concluded that large amounts of oil were present in the area. The Kurdish nobility and intellektuals were persecuted, imprisoned and hanged and the rest of them deported by the new government. The Kurdish resistance was quelled.

Thereby five countries; Iran, Iraq, Syria; Turkey and the Soviet Union split Kurdistan. The exercising of Kurdish culture and language was prohibited by the new, Unitarian, pro- fascist Turkish state from the day it was formed. The father of the people Mustafa Kemal Ataturk began his buchering of the Kurds and hundreds of thousans of Kurds were murded and millions deported from Kurdistan to the western cities in Kapadokia, Anatolia and even further to Trakia.

The land Kurdistan is inhabited by a Kurdish majority, and minorities such as Armenians, Syrians and Arabs.
There are, however not a Turkish minority in Kurdistan. The Turks who inhabit the Kurdish cities are the Turkish state governing officials- either civil servants of the Turkish state or police and officers from the civil and military authorities.

Kurdish belongs to the Indoeuropean language family and is spoken by approximately 40 million people. Kurdish has a lot in comon with Latin languages and a lot of words are identical. Older and originally identical words in Kurdish English, Italian, French and Swedish are countless. To name but a few: horse, egg, lip, (eye) brows, door, bridge, pool, cone, hub, name etc.




Reference
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10. Bedir Khan, Sureyya/ The Case of Kurdistan Against Turkey, HOYBOON-Supreme Council of the Kurdish Government, Philadelphia,1926