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

It is the most practical, clear and proving experience
regarding the fact that the autonomy is a failed cause. It
is obvious that the question of autonomy depends on
many multisided circumstances. As when the government
is weak the autonomy would be agreed, but as soon as it
is strengthened it declares: “No to Autonomy”. In this
way the events continue in succession and if we, the
Kurds, would not change they would continue forever;
as it is mentioned in the holy Koran: “Allah does not
change the circumstances of any nation until they change
their own selves.”
I think everyone remembers when the Iraqi regime
was about to declare the autonomy for Kurdistan after
negotiations with the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan in 1984,
and how it changed that arrangement after a visit to
Baghdad by the head of the fascist Turkish regime Kanaan
Evren who spoiled those negotiations.
The enemies of our Kurdish people were always in
disagreement, nevertheless they always agree on their
hostile stand towards the Kurdish people. This has been
on the same line since the first division of Kurdistan
between the Persian and the Ottoman Empires (after
numerous wars between the two Empires, and signing of
the Zehab treaty of 1639 A.C. regarding the determination
of the international borders between them). And the
second division was according to the Sykes-Picot Treaty
of 1916. This treaty was to divide the territories of the
Ottoman Empire which was an ally to the defeated
Germany during the World War I, among Britain and
France as spoils of war and regions of influence. Thus
they created several Arab states in addition to the states
of Turkey and Iran. We were hoping that they would do
the same with Kurdistan and create several Kurdish states.
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