The history of the Kurdish national movement is often told through its most dramatic moments — the uprisings, the declarations, the battles, the martyrdoms. But beneath these moments of high drama lie
When the British Empire emerged victorious from the First World War and was awarded the mandate over Mesopotamia, its strategists expected that the Kurdish population of the newly created Iraq would a
In the dying decades of the Ottoman Empire, when the Kurdish people were beginning to develop the political consciousness that would eventually coalesce into a national movement, a small group of educ
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