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

This is a fact confirmed by the Armenians and the
academician Orbelli.
The meeting between the leader of the Armenians
Dashnak party with Abdel Rahman Badirkhan, one of
the Kurdish leaders in Geneva with the purpose of unifying
the demands of the Armenians and the Kurds witnesses
to the excellent and strong relations between the two
people.
Following the meeting, and based on it, Abdel Rahman
Badirkhan published an article in the Kurdish language
in Arabic letters in the newspaper Troshak (The Flag),
organ of the Dashnak party. (ref: The History of the
Armenian Nation , Dr. K.A. Astarjian, published in Mosul,
1951, p.315)
These relations are also referred to in the publications
of General Sherif Pasha (16) in the newspaper of El
Mashrouteya in 1914, in which he criticised the racist
policies of the Unionists (Ittihad) in relation to the
Armenian massacres.
This rapprochement was also supported by bi-lateral
accord between Boghos Nubar Pasha, representative of
the Armenian people, and General Sherif Pasha,
representative of the Kurdish people during the peace
treaty of 1919 in Paris. They presented a joint memo to
the representatives of the union of nations after WW I,
relating to the rights of the Kurdish and Armenian people
in forming their respective independent homelands. The
treaty of Sevres was the result of these efforts.
The Koyboun party further deepened and harmonised
the relations between it and the Armenian leaders. They
signed the historic treaty of political and military
cooperation between the Kurds and the Armenians in
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