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

Scientific Association in Damascus, who stayed as its
chairman for twelve years because there was no one among
the Arabs better than him in literature and Arabic language.
18) The Ottoman administration conspired to cause
this murder incident by igniting the common people of
Mosul. They left them murder the Sheikh and some of
his followers without giving them any protection while
one Turkish gendarme would have been enough to repel
those commons from their despicable act.
19) General Ihsan Nouri Pasha was one of the leaders
of Khoibun and general commander of the Kurdish
revolution from 1927 – 1930. After the failure of the
revolution he became a political refugee in Iran, where
he suffered poverty and destitute. So, his wife worked
as a tailor of clothes in order to provide for themselves.
After the revolution in Kurdistan ended in 1975, there
was a political vacuum, and people turned to General
Ihsan Nouri to fill the gap. That is why Shah of Iran
conspired to assassinate him in 1976 in one of the streets
of Tehran with a road accident involving a motorcycle,
peace be upon his soul.
20) The great activist Apo Osman Sabri was arrested
eighteen times by the Syrian, Turkish and French
authorities, and in all periods: progressive and non
progressive, because he was only carrying out his struggle
for the rights of the Kurdish people. The Kurdish liberation
movement has never seen a more courageous and more
faithful leader at all times of colonization of Kurdistan.
However, at the end of his life he decided to stop political
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