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

Among the first books published in that era there were
the first poem book of the great poet “Jigerkhoin” and
the best book regarding the Kurdish language grammar
“Rezman” by the Kurdish writer “Rashid Kurd”, and the
most beautiful poetic and prose writings about the Kurdish
cause in a simple and expressive manner (Bahoz =
Hurricane, Darden Me = Our Troubles), and a poem
book by the leader and great writer Apo Osman Sabri,
whose poem book was published in Europe as “Apo”
which means Uncle, and it is the name that he has been
known by in the Kurdish society since more than half a
century.
When the French left Syria and the Syrians took the
power in 1946, they hurried to close all the Kurdish
associations, clubs and newspapers, and even confiscated
all the Kurdish publications in the markets and homes.
Then they started to practice the policy of ignoring the
existence of the Kurdish people and denying their ethnic
rights.
Project of a Kurdish State in Western Kurdistan
In 1949, the courageous Kurdish Officer General Husni
Zaeem carried out the first military coup in Syria and
became the President of the Syrian Republic. He appointed
the martyr Muhsin Berazi, one of the chiefs of the Kurdish
tribe Berazi, to form the council of ministers from a
group of Kurdish ministers and other Syrians who were
not hostile to the Kurdish people. The President General
Husni Zaeem informed Prince Jaladat Baderkhan to restart
his activities to form a Kurdish state in the Syrian
Kurdistan. He gave him all the authorities and told him:
do not be afraid and do not hesitate with anything, I am
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