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

arena, as no one has any interest in caring for our cause
because we have no power either to protect or to threaten
as an independent power from the countries in the region.
It looks like that the Soviets applied this policy with
some tactics added to it summarized in not ignoring the
Kurdish cause completely, as this would bring up hostility
and anger of the Kurdish people, but just not getting
involved in the Kurdish game, because the establishment
of a Kurdish state would anger the governments of Turkey,
Iran, Iraq and Syria. This was the most convenient choice
as by this they managed to “kill two birds using one
stone” i.e. using the Kurdish nationalist movement
whenever they had the opportunity and there were
circumstances as a pressure tool on the states that divide
Kurdistan. This was an attempt to finish or limit the
American and European influence and replacing it with
their own influence (see the article by N. Bekas entitled
“Choices of the Soviet Policy towards the Kurdish Case”
published in Issue 2 of Kurdish Studies, magazine of
“Kurdish Institute in Paris”).
This is the international situation, and if we think about
it thoroughly it makes our choice of way more definite
than before and defines our aims in a clear way. All this
does not mean that there is no chance to establish a
Kurdish state; on the contrary there have been
opportunities always. We can see other countries in the
world wasting opportunities for example Shah of Iran
and Numairi in Sudan who were ousted from power by
public uprisings. So, we have to prepare ourselves to
take the initiative and the coming opportunity.
In addition and as I mentioned before the international
policy is based on interests and interests alone, and there
is no consistency in it, so that the friend of today becomes
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