{"id":10664,"date":"2021-04-27T08:00:06","date_gmt":"2021-04-27T12:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/thediplomaticenvoy\/?p=10664"},"modified":"2022-01-06T23:22:33","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T04:22:33","slug":"focus-on-separatist-movements-kurdistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/thediplomaticenvoy\/2021\/04\/27\/focus-on-separatist-movements-kurdistan\/","title":{"rendered":"FOCUS on Separatist Movements: Kurdistan\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Juliet Nangini<br \/>\n<\/b><b><i>Staff Writer<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Among global separatist movements, the Kurds stand as the largest nation without an independent state and make up the fourth-largest ethnic group in the Middle East, according to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-middle-east-29702440\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">BBC News<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. There is an estimated population of 30 million Kurds scattered across the mountainous regions within the borders of Armenia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey. The Kurds often say that they have \u201cno friends but the mountains.\u201d <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/the-economist-explains\/2021\/04\/13\/why-kurds-are-losing-hope-of-having-their-own-state\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Economist<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> also reports that \u201cinternal division has been one of their worst enemies.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Proposals for an independent Kurdish state range as far back as the First World War. The Treaty of Sevres of 1920, a pact between the Allies and the Ottoman Empire after the end of World War I, featured an Allied proposal for an independent Kurdistan. However, this was followed by the Treaty of Lausanne of 1923, which provided the Republic of Turkey with international recognition as the sovereign successor of the Ottoman Empire. With the new boundaries established through this treaty, the provision for a Kurdish state was forgotten and led to the suppression and limitation of rights for Kurds that are still seen today.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The levels of Kurdish autonomy and oppression vary between each country. In 1988, Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein launched nerve gas attacks against Kurdish communities. The United States, Britain, and several other countries supplied humanitarian aid to Iraqi Kurdistan and established a no-fly zone. Now, more than thirty years after the chemical attacks, families are still trying to identify and bury the victims of the attack. According to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/features\/2021\/4\/14\/hold-survivors-of-the-anfal-kurdish-genocide-long-for-closure\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Al Jazeera<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, several mass graves filled with bodies that were believed to be killed by Saddam Hussein\u2019s regime were found in Southern Iraq in 2019.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Meanwhile, Syrian Kurds have been in the fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) have received military and diplomatic support from the U.S. According to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/extremism-watch\/syrian-kurds-optimistic-about-continued-us-support-under-biden-presidency\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Voice of America<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, the Kurds are hopeful that they will have continued support from the U.S\/ after Biden\u2019s victory in the election, as they \u201chave a common objective to defeat terrorism in Syria.\u201d This came after worries produced by the U.S.\u2019s partial troop withdrawal from Syria in October 2019, which was followed by a Turkish invasion of the region. During the campaign event in October 2019, Biden expressed that the decision to withdraw was a \u201ccomplete failure,\u201d citing the risk of Turkish attacks on Syrian Kurds due to their perception of Syrian Kurdish fighters as terrorists, reports Voice of America. Additionally, Kurdish officials are advocating for U.S. support in unity talks between rival Kurdish groups in Syria.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2021\/3\/28\/syria-kurds-arrest-9-at-al-hol-camp-for-isil-families\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Al Jazeera<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> reports that Kurdish forces arrested nine people, some of whom were suspected members of the Islamic State, in northeast Syria. Over the past few months, violence has increased in the area, particularly in the al-Hol camp where over 60,000 people reside. Since the U.S.-led coalition captured the last area held by the Islamic State, Kurdish authorities have been in control of the area.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Meanwhile, in the mountains of Iraqi Kurdistan, where Kurdish and Assyrian communities established a home for thousands of years, three former Kurdish peshmerga soldiers were missing and recently found dead. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/04\/iraq-turkey-pkk-drones-kurds-kurdistan\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Guardian<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> reports that the bodies were \u201ctorn to pieces\u201d in a Turkish drone strike. This attack adds to the growing number of civilian casualties as Turkey increases tensions in the fight between Kurdish militants on its borders. The Turkish defense ministry also stated that \u201cfive Kurdistan Workers\u2019 party (PKK) combatants were \u2018neutralized\u2019 in Iraq,\u201d reports The Guardian. In 2017, Iraqi Kurds proposed independence for Iraqi Kurdistan.\u00a0Moreover, in Turkey, the Kurds strive for political rights but continue to have some political influence.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Economist reports that the Kurds seem to have established that too much pressure for independence is dangerous in Iraq and Syria. Despite the many gains and losses for the Kurds, they continue to face different challenges across the Middle East.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo courtesy of Roger Blackwell (Flickr)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Among global separatist movements, the Kurds stand as the largest nation without an independent state and make up the fourth-largest ethnic group in the Middle East, according to BBC News. There is an estimated population of 30 million Kurds scattered across the mountainous regions within the borders of Armenia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey. The Kurds often say that they have \u201cno friends but the mountains.\u201d The Economist also reports that \u201cinternal division has been one of their worst enemies.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4888,"featured_media":10610,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2190,2104,5,2201,388],"tags":[454,480,500,544,545,2208],"class_list":["post-10664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-april-2021","category-2104","category-focus","category-separatist-movements","category-mid-east","tag-iraq","tag-syria","tag-turkey","tag-kurds","tag-pkk","tag-self-determination"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>FOCUS on Separatist Movements: Kurdistan\u00a0 - The Diplomatic Envoy<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/thediplomaticenvoy\/2021\/04\/27\/focus-on-separatist-movements-kurdistan\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"FOCUS on Separatist Movements: Kurdistan\u00a0 - The Diplomatic Envoy\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Among global separatist movements, the Kurds stand as the largest nation without an independent state and make up the fourth-largest ethnic group in the Middle East, according to BBC News. 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