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

the President of the Republic and in agreement with the
Prime Minister on all arrangements to declare a Kurdish
state; those arrangements are according to the plan of
Prince Kameran Baderkhan, which stated that a Kurdish
state should be declared in the part that has been linked
to the weakest state, and at the time Syria was the weakest.
So, Prince Kameran carried out international contacts
including with the Israeli State and promised them a
peace agreement with Syria if they support a Kurdish
state in Syria. (See: Mosad and Neighbouring Countries,
Shlomo Nekdimon (the relation Officer between Israel
and the Kurdish Revolution in the seventies), First Edition
in Hebrew 1997, and Second Edition in Arabic, Translated
by Bader Aqily, Published by Dar Al-Jalil Publishing in
Jordan.
However, not all wishes come true, and just after three
months of the Kurdish rule in Syria, Colonel Sami Al-
Hannawi carried out another military coup and overthrew
the Syrian government killing its Kurdish leaders first of
whom were the glorious martyrs Zaeem and Berazi. After
investigations by the Syrian Intelligence Services it was
discovered that the two Princes Jaladat and Kameran
were behind the Zaeem’s coup, so, they arranged a plan
to assassinate the two princes. Thus on 15/7/1951 they
assassinated Prince Jaladat Baderkhan using a prearranged
incident of water tank explosion that martyred him. As
for Prince Kameran, he fled Syria since then and never
returned until he died in Paris, mercy be on their souls
and heaven be their place. The murders of Zeem, Berazi
and Baderkhan extinguished the high hopes of the Kurdish
people for a while.
However, the rule of Colonel Sami Al-Hannawi did
not last more than few months and another coup under
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