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

colleges in 1936 because those colleges were saturated
by the Kurdish applicants. In addition to that he made
several preparations to declare the independence of
Kurdistan. However, the conspiracy on his life came
before that and this hero Bakir Sidqi was assassinated in
the city of Mosul before he accomplished his historic
mission.
These developments also led to the Birth of the
“Jiyanewey Kurd” Party in 1942 whose ideas were an
expression of Kurdish people’s aspirations for liberation
and unification of Kurdistan. In 1959 another party
“KAJYK” was born and continued the path of the Kurdish
revolutions and movements that asked for a Kurdish state
and established the philosophical foundations for the
liberation and independence of Kurdistan in the book
“Kajyknama = the Kajyk Massage”.
These developments had a large role in the
establishment of the Kurdistan Democratic Party – Iran
in 1945 and the Kurdistan Democratic Party – Iraq in
1946, and in later dates, in the fifties and sixties, parties
with identical names were also established in the Western
Kurdistan (Syrian Kurdistan) and Northern Kurdistan
(Turkish Kurdistan). All this also had a huge effect
on the ignition of 11 September 1961 Revolution under
the command of the late Mella Mustafa Barzani. The
revolution had a great echo in the consciousness of the
Kurdish people and in the other parts of Kurdistan,
especially after the agreement of 11 March 1970 that
also led to the creation of numerous Kurdish parties in
the Northern and the Western Kurdistan. The fall of the
mentioned Revolution in 1975 led to establishment of
several Kurdish parties in the Southern and the Eastern
Kurdistan. The heroic struggle of the 11 September 1961
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