Kurdistan and The Kurds A Divided Homeland and a Nation without ...

“The activist Fahmi Laji was one of the Sheikh Saiid’s
assistants and close to him; at the same time he was one
of those who had not much regard for religious issues.
When some people criticized the Sheikh for taking such
a atheist person as his assistant!! Sheikh Saiid would
answer: Fahmi is an atheist more than any other atheist
person and he is infidel more than any infidel. However,
he is a good Kurd. He would then say: if he dies do not
bury him in Muslim graveyards; that it is the most I can
do, other than that holding him to an account must be
left to his God because He is the highest judge.”
We must mention that the Kurdish nationalistic feelings
were not crystallized in the minds of people, that is why
when Sheikh Saiid was brought to his trial, the judge
told him: why do you fight the Turkish government?
His answer was far from the Kurdish cause and anything
to do with Kurds. He knew how to give an answer that
causes a huge effect in the soul of the Kurdish people by
saying his famous words: “I fight you because you are
infidels.” These words and the way he became a martyr
caused a popular uprising and the Kurdish tribes, even
those who were against his revolution for a while, took
to the revolution after his death. Kurdish revolutions
started in all parts of Kurdistan under the control of Turkey.
However, their reactions were on the individual basis
without coordination, as a direct reaction to the
execution of Sheikh Saiid and his comrades. That is
why they all failed. On old man from those who lived
that era told me once: “After the revolution of Sheikh
Saiid Piran, there were Kurdish uprisings in all areas and
mountains, unfortunately each one was apart from the
other, so there was no communication or cooperation
between them, which enabled the Turks to overpower
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