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

historical victories both politically and militarily.
Nevertheless, it dissipated on 6 March 1975, within 24
hours, as a result of the Treaty of Algiers between Iran
and Iraq. The reason was the late Mella Mustafa put his
trust in the Iranian state (in order to gain from the conflicts
between Iraq and Iran) despite the fact that the revolution
had more than 150 thousand armed fighters in 1975.
Unfortunately, Mr Abdullah Ocalan, the leader of the
Kurdistan Workers Party, repeated the same mistake of
the late Mella Mustafa by putting his trust in the Syrian
state that colonises a part of Kurdistan. As soon as the
Syrian – Turkish agreement was signed in the city of
Adhana in November 1998, the revolution of the Kurdistan
Workers Party that also lasted for 14 years, 1984–1998,
fell. However, its fall was not quick and obvious but
gradual. That is because they did not have liberated
areas as was the case with the late Mella Mustafa. For
this reason, once again, I warn all organisations not to
distance themselves from the holy aim of the Kurdish
people: the independence of Kurdistan and reject any
patchy solutions for the Kurdish cause including
autonomy, federalism or confederacy and not to put their
trust in the colonisers of Kurdistan because they, however
different on the face of it, are always united on not allowing
the Kurdish people gaining even the smallest and the
most unworthy of rights, for they do not accept in principle
the existence of the Kurdish people. For the thousandth
time I repeat that the destiny has put us among savage
states that do not recognise the human and democratic
rights of their own people, so how can we then ask them
to recognise the national rights of another people!! The
only solution, with such people, is to put borders between
our homeland and their homelands. Those who think
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