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Reflections on a Hundred Years of Oppression of the Kurdish People
The first part concerns ancient history and the emergence of the Kurds. It briefly examines Kurdish ethnology and discusses the Medes and their actual relationship to the Kurds. It then connects geography and history as factors that caused the Kurds' isolation. The second part discusses the collapse of the Ottoman state and its effects on the Kurdish nation. It also makes important reference to how Kurdish tribes were exploited, fragmented, and deceived in the name of religion. Alongside this, it addresses the massacres of Armenians and Kurds at the hands of the Ottoman Turks and the Young Turks. The third part is devoted to the First World War and the partition of the Middle East by Britain, France, and Russia. It discusses the efforts of Kurdish figures to establish a Kurdish state within the framework of the Treaty of Sèvres, followed by Atatürk's agreement with the Allied countries within the...
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