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

Mahmoud was his plea to Lenin, the Soviet Union leader,
to help the Kurdish liberation revolution, after his plea to
the Tsarist Russia before that (20).
Revolutions of Barzan
The Barzan revolutions and uprisings took place
successively since the end of the nineteenth century until
the start of the World War I, when they stopped after the
execution of Sheikh Abdulsalam Barzani in 1914 (see
part of Sophie Methods). The Barzanis restarted their
revolutions during the thirties and the forties of twentieth
century, the last of which was in Southern Kurdistan in
1945. However, the Barzanis continued their struggle
inside another part of Kurdistan by participation in
establishing the Kurdistan Republic in Eastern Kurdistan
in 1946.
As for the other parts of Southern Kurdistan, the Kurdish
liberation movement developed notably after the
successive revolutions of Sheikh Mahmoud Hafid, King
of Kurdistan, and this led to the foundation of a nuclear
for the political struggle. On the sixth of September
1930, the Kurdish people organized in the streets of
Sulaimany the first political national demonstration in
Kurdistan. Also the coup carried out by the Iraqi army’s
Chief of Staff, the Kurdish Officer Bakir Sidqi in 1936
had a great effect among the Kurdish intellectuals, as his
coup was in reality a Kurdish revolution. He ordered the
transfer of the arms and equipments of the Iraqi army
from the south to Kurdistan and asked for support from
the most famous German army officers to set up a plan
for the defense of Kurdistan. He also rejected all
applications from any Iraqi Arab for admission to military
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