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

“You will report to the people of strong determination”
The people referred to in the Holy Verse are the Kurds
as they were known for their strength and determination.
According to the information that has reached us from
inscriptions on ancient plates and from what we know
from the Orientalists and researchers about the origins of
the Kurdish people, it is possible to deduce that the Kurdish
people’s native Homeland lies in what is today known as
Kurdistan. Some disparity has resulted from constant
displacement and re-settlement in other parts due to
endless persecution and forced migration of the Kurdish
people from Mosul, Aleppo, Adana, Urmia, Tabriz and
Tripoli.
Since the fall of the Medean Empire, Kurdistan has
been subjected to attacks by countless peoples and
governments who have tried to colonise and conquer it.
Some of these conquerors were Akhminians, Alexander
the Macedonian, the ten thousand Greeks, the Akshanians,
the Sassanians, the Armenians, the Romans, the Arabs,
Khawarzmis, the Seljuks, the Tatars, Holako, the Mongols,
Timourlenk, Khazr, the Ottomans, the Russians, the
English and the French. Throughout all this, the Kurdish
tribes have been able to preserve their internal
independence during the different phases of history.
In addition to these invasions, most of the wars between
the Roman and Persian Empires and between the Ottoman
and Saffawid Persian Empires, or the wars between the
Tatars, the Mongols and the Seljuks from one side and
the Abbasids, the Ayyoubids and the Memlouks from
the other, have taken place on the lands of Kurdistan. All
that the Kurds have got from these wars have been endless
suffering and disasters the likes of which are very rare in
the history of Mankind. Many religions spread in
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