Sheikh Mahmud Barzanji was born in 1878 in Sulayimaniyah, Kurdistan Region of Iraq. During the British occupation of Iraq following the First World War,…
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Washington Kurdish Institute July 24, 2018 Part II of a series on Turkey’s future This week’s report, the second in our series on today’s Turkey, discusses…
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Iran The Iran-based Kurdistan’s Free Life Party (PJAK), an offshoot of Turkey’s Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), was responsible for the deaths of eleven Islamic…
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Mustafa Barzani was born in Barzan, a village in Iraqi Kurdistan (then the Ottoman Empire) in 1903. Barzani was appointed Minister of Defense for…
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Abdullah Ocalan was born on April 4, 1949 and grew up in a large family in the village of Amara (called Omerli in Turkish)…
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Mam Jalal is the son of Sheik Hisamadeen of Sheik Nuri, the son of Sheik Ghafour. He was born in Kalkan village at the…
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Qazi Muhammad was born in Mahabad, Kurdish region of Iran (then called Persia) in 1893. A well-known and educated leader, Qazi Muhammad led a…
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Iran Members of the Iranian intelligence service known as Ettela’at, arrested several Kurdish activists on a recent raid. The Kurdistan Human Rights Association reported…
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Washington Kurdish Institute July 17, 2018 Part I of a series on Turkey’s future In 2002, the former Mayor of Istanbul, Recep Tayyip Erdogan…
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Iran On July 7, a Peshmerga group linked to The Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (KDP-I) clashed with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC)…