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

in the City of Urmia. He led many battles against the
Iranian government in defence of the Kurdish people
and their national rights. The Iranian authorities
assassinated him in 1930 (13).
The Republic of Kurdistan 1946
The birth of the Republic of Kurdistan in 1946 under
the presidency of Qazi Mohammed constitutes one of
the important events in Eastern Kurdistan. It lasted one
year because of the intricate plots attacking it from every
side. The retreat of the Russian forces in favour of the
Iranians in exchange of granting them the right to extract
petroleum in Iran did not help much either. The American
military intervention pushed the Iranian sources to the
colonisation of Kurdistan once again. All these movements
led to the fall of the Republic facilitated by an Iranian
military move. After feeling let down by Kurdistan’s
friends, Qazi Mohamed went to Teheran in order to
negotiate with the Iranian authorities for a mutually
acceptable solution to the Kurdish problem. The Shah of
Iran welcomed him at first, but later on ordered his
assassination, along with two of his accompanying
ministers. This was to be the ideal solution for the
colonisers of Kurdistan.
Indeed, while the Republic of Kurdistan fell, albeit
temporarily, the revolutions of the Kurdish people
continued in Eastern Kurdistan erupting on every possible
occasion. Of these, we can cite the Revolution of the
Juanro Kurdish clans in the 50s, and the revolution led
by the freedom fighter Faek Amin and his supporters in
1967. Then there was the coup by the martyr Ahmed
Tawfiq and his followers who fought the Iranian
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