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

personality and was the representative of the Kurdish
people during the peace conference and the Treaty of
Sevres in the aftermath of the World War I and before
that he held several military and diplomatic positions in
the Ottoman era.
17) In this way the international politics forced the
Kurdish people to depend on the good intentions and
justice of the Iraqi government. Is it possible for colonizers
to be just ever? Is it possible for the wolf to have good
intentions for the lamb? But that is what the international
politics wanted for us. We were not backwards to the
extent not to deserve a political entity for ourselves. Some
may say that we were in this regard behind many European
countries; this could be true in some regards. However,
those who got hold of their political entity in the Middle
East (where Kurdistan is) were in no better situation
than the Kurdish people at all. The British brought kings
for them from outside their country and appointed the
descendants of Sharif Hussein (Sharif of Mecca) Kings
for Syria, Iraq and Jordan. While the Kurds at that time
had already their leaders, politicians, princes and kings.
However, instead of leaving them alone to rule their
homeland Kurdistan, they were murdered, sent to exile
or imprisoned. Furthermore, the colonizers of Kurdistan
brutally clamped down on all Kurdish liberation
revolutions, and each time killed and displaced millions
of the Kurdish people. The Kurds did not have kings
alone, but they had scientists, literary figures and thinkers
more than their neighbors. The creative works of some
of those even exceeded the borders of Kurdistan to enrich
the thought and literature of the neighboring people. For
example: Muhammad Kurd Ali, the founder of the Arabic
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