Analisis of Kurdish Geopolitics Past and Present
Analysis of Kurdish Geopolitics Past and Present Who are the Kurds? ... I would like to give you a better understanding of what it is to be Kurdish by describing to you the past and present condition of Kurdistan, the state or territory that the Kurdish people populate. A brief understanding of the history of the Kurdish people is all that is needed to successfully accretion just why we should be more involved and educated about the current political activities surrounding Kurdistan and the countries that infringe upon it. The Kurdish people have the unfortunate distinction of being the only community of over 15 million in population that has not achieved some form of national statehood. ... 4 The Kurdish are an ancient people who about 4,000 thousand years ago started to trickle into Kurdistan in limited numbers to settle there. ... Barring a catastrophe, Kurds will become the third most populous ethnic group in the Middle East by the year 2000, furthermore, if present demographics trends hold, the Kurds will replace the Turks as the majority ethnic group in Turkey itself. ... Kurdish society was well underway of developing a political culture but this was disbanded by the redistribution of their county at the end of the first World War. ... 11 Kurdish lands, rich in natural resources, have always sustained and promoted a large population. ... There is now one Kurdish city with a population of nearly a million(Kirminshah), two with over half a million (Diyarbekir, Kikuk), five between a quarter and a half million (Antep, Abril, Hamadan, Malatya,Sulaymania), and 13 cities with a quarter of a million (Adiyamamn, Dersim, Dohuk, Elazig, Haymana, Khanaqin, Mardin, Qamishli, Qochan, Sanandja, Shahabad, Siirt and Urfa). ... The Kurds are speakers of Kurdish. Kurdish is related to the northwestern subdivision of the Indo-European family of languages. ... Kurdistan in the state that is now, is just a region of the middle east, which overlays several other countries that the majority of the Kurdish people inhabit. The Kurdish are only recognized as minorities and unwanted people and can only hope to be granted the right to live in peace, alone without ever having an official country. ... They were expected to learn the language of the new state in which they found themselves, Turkish, Persian, or Arabic, and to abandon their Kurdish identify and accept Turkish, Iranian, or Arab nationalism. ... But in 1975 the Shah of Iran, who had supported Barzani, signed the agreement of Algiers with the Iraqi and abandon the Kurds to their fate; as a result the Kurdish resistance collapsed.