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

Revolution that lasted for 14 years managed to achieve
wonderful military victories and introduced the Kurdish
people internationally, in addition to gathering all the
sects of the Kurdish people around it (21). It is necessary
to clarify and evaluate that period, especially the sudden
downfall of 1975, in a separate research so that the people
would get the whole truth.
The Kurdish Revolution 0f 11 September 1961 In
The Southern Kurdistan Under The Command Of
The Late Mella Mustafa Barzani And Its Evaluation
After the coup of 14 July 1958 the Kurdish people
gained the first official recognition of the existence of
the Kurdish people. As the second article of the temporary
Iraqi constitution stated that the Arabs and the Kurds are
partners in the homeland. The legal clarification of
partnership means the full independence of all partners
and consequently each partner has the right to end his
partnership with the other party if the partnership became
a liability for his interests and rule. Those who do not
like the existence of an independent Kurdish identity in
the region soon started using their corrupt pens and
conspiracies to ignite the hostility and calling the Iraqi
government to annihilate the separatist Kurdish
movement. They also started promoting the solution of
the Kurdish case in Iraq not by recognizing the legitimate
national rights of the Kurdish people, but by ignoring
them and melting the Kurdish people into the Arabism
and Arab nation. This as a result led to the fact that the
President of the Iraqi Republic Abdulkarim Qasem came
under the influence of such hostile notions and started in
a number of his speeches to convince the general public
that “the Kurds are Arabs in origin”. On the other hand
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