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

greet the Shah. On arrival the Shah used all his skilful
trickery to murder all of them in the most traitorous
manner. Then the murderous Shah went to the castle of
Kadul and committed the worst kind of massacres against
the Mukri tribes killing thousands of the innocent Kurdish
Mukris and capturing thousands of women and children.
The Junbulat Revolution
Junbulat is the Kurdish family which inherited the rule
of the Kils city since ancient times. Prince Hussein was
the head of the family and Mayor of Aleppo at the time
when the Ottoman emperor went to occupy Iran. Prince
Hussein refused to answer the emperor’s call to participate
in his campaign of the Iranian war. For this he was
killed using traitorous methods. Then his brother, Prince
Ali, carried out a revolution against the Ottomans and
fought them in 1607 AD with an army of forty thousand
Kurdish fighters capturing Aleppo, Damascus and the
Sham Tripoli. After some violent battles the Ottomans
forced him to surrender. He was pardoned by the Ottoman
Sultan and appointed as a Mayor of Tamashwar, a province
of Austria, but he sent after him secret assassins to kill
him in the city of Belgrade on his way to his new job’s
headquarters (6). The politician Walid Jinpilat, the son
of the great Lebanese leader Kamal Jinpolat, is a
descendant of this ancient and courageous Kurdish family.
Massacres of the Kurdish Ashi Tribe
When the Ottoman Prime Minister Murad Pasha died
in 1611 AD, Nasuh Pasha was a Mayor of Diarbakir.
He took over a castle belonging to the Kurdish Ashi
tribe and gathered four thousand of their women and
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