Table of Contents
Volume I / 3 Part 1 / 3 Book One / 3
De'ja'vue / 5 Preface / 17 Author’s Introduction to Part One / 33 1 / 37 The War Is Over! / 37 2 / 39 Surrender / 39 The Ottoman Empire after the Treaty / 39 3 / 43 Mustafa Kama! in Anatolia / 43 The Cabinet of Farid Pasha and Mustafa Kamal / 47 4 / 51 The Empire Signs at Sevres / 51 (Article 62) / 52 (Article 63) / 52 (Article 64) / 52 5 / 55 The Treaty of Sevres / 57 6 / 59 Kamal Turns against the Kurds / 59 7 / 61 The Sixteenth-Century Treaty of Union / 61 The Kurdish Principalities and the Ottoman Sultan Saleem the First / 61 8 / 65 Centuries of Oppressio / 65 9 / 67 In the Aftermath / 67 Southern Kurdistan, During the Last Days of the First World War / 67 10 / 71 Who is Sheikh Mahmud and what do we know about his Life Style? / 71 The Mosul Scandal / 77 and the Murder of Sheikh Sa’id and his son Sheikh Ahmad / 77 12 / 83 The Return of Sheikh Mahmud to Slêmanî / 83 After Sheikh Mahmud’s Return to Slêmanî / 87 13 / 89 The First World War and Sheikh Mahmud / 89 Return of the British to Kirkuk / 95 14 / 99 The Arrival of Captain Noel in Slêmanî / 99 15 / 103 Ruler of Kurdistan / 103 16 / 107 Sheikh Mahmud and the Peace Conference / 107 17 / 109 The Situation in SlemanT during the First Period of Sheikh Mahmud’s Rule / 109 18 / 113 Major Noel’s Journey in Turkey Accompanied by Fa’iq-i Tapo / 113 to Drum up Support for the Independent Kurdish State / 113 19 / 117 Slêmanî after Noel’s Departure / 117 Slêmanî during Soane's Rule / 117 20 / 123 What were Sheikh Mahmud and his Government Doing? / 123 21 / 127 My Return to Koysinjaq with Captain Beale / 127 Beale was the unparalleled "Wrath" of the Almighty / 131 22 / 133 The Decline of Sheikh Mahmud's Influence / 133 Among the Tribes / 133 Sheikh Ameen of Sindolan / 134
Volume 1 / 139 Part 2 / 139 Book Two / 139
23 / 141 Introduction to Part Two / 141 24 / 143 Another Example of / 143 British Intrigue / 143 aimed at reducing Sheikh Mahmud's influence / 143 Ahmad Nuri / 143 The Post and Telegraph Inspector / 143 25 / 147 The Appearance of the Start of Sheikh Mahmud's Revolt / 147 26 / 151 My Trip to Rawandiz with Beale / 151 27 / 153 Sheikh Mahmud’s First Revolt and its Outcome / 153 Secret Post-Midnight Talks between Sheikh Mahmud and Simko / 157 Turkish awareness of the Secret Discussions between Sheikh Mahmud, Simko and me / 163 Tayer Ameen Afendi Masraf, Sheikh Mahmud and the Turks / 165 Agreement between / 167 the Kurds and the Turks on Sheikh Mahmud’s Requirements / 167 The British at Kirkuk and Major Soane were in Real Pain / 169 28 / 179 The Situation in Rawandiz during the Darband Battle / 179 29 / 187 Sheikh Mahmud’s Error in this Rebellion / 187 Rawandiz & I, after Beale's Departure to Hewler / 188 My Arrest in Rawandiz and Dispatch to Koya Prison / 190 30 / 193 My Life in Prison / 193 31 / 199 The "Friendly” Indian / 199 32 / 207 Abdulla Agha-i Haji Tayer Agha-i Hawezi / 207 33 / 211 My Release from Prison / 211 34 / 213 The Trial of Sheikh Mahmud / 213 in Baghdad and his Exile to the Andaman / 213 Islands / 213 35 / 221 The Greek Army Invasion of Turkish Territory / 221 36 / 225 The fall of Venizelos's Government / 225 The Outcome of Bakir Sami's Efforts and his Agreements with France and Italy / 233 37 / 237 News of the Kurdish Question in Istanbul / 237 38 / 243 Mustafa Kamal and the Kurds / 243 (Sheikh Mahmud Died!) / 243 39 / 249 Specific Factors Contributing to Mustafa Kamal's Success / 249 Some Special Reasons / 249
Volume II / 253 Parti / 253 Book Three / 253
40 / 259 After the Turkish and Greek Battles and Turkish Victory ..259 41 / 265 After Sending Sheikh Mahmud to India / 265 The Conditions in Kurdistan / 265 42 / 267 The Revolt of the Iraqi Kurds in Amedt (Amadiya) and Akre (Aqra) / 267 43 / 277 The Coming of Ozdemir Pasha to Rawandiz / 277 44 / 285 In SlemanT after my Release / 285 45 / 289 An Encounter with the Major / 289 46 / 297 Sayid Taha of Shamdinan and the Kurdish Question / 297 47 / 301 The Kurds themselves / 301 Shared in the Failure of the Kurdish Cause / 301 The Return of Mustafa Pasha Yamulki to Slêmanî / 303 48 / 305 Iraq under the Mandate / 305 49 / 313 Summary of the Kurdish and Arab Revolutions in Iraq (1919-1922) / 313 80 / 343 Hamdi Beg-i Baban / 343 51 / 351 Mustafa Kamal’s Revolution in Turkey / 351 52 / 353 Turkish Designs for Mosul / 353
Volume II / 359 Part 2 / 359 Book Four / 359
Open Letter to all the esteemed critics / 363 Our Meeting at the home of Azmi Beg-i Baban / 365 53 / 371 Hamdi Beg’s Arrival in Slêmanî / 371 54 / 377 The Kurdistan Independence Society / 377 55 / 379 The Battle between the Kurds and the British at the Ranya Darband / 379 The British Conference in Cairo and the Discussion of the Kurdish and Arab Issues / 380 56 / 387 The Fate of the Independence Society / 387 57 / 393 A Telegram from Kirkuk / 393 I was close to becoming Ahmad Agha’s Agent And later his Clerk / 393 We wanted to establish a Library / 397 I was appointed Teacher in Kirkuk at the Dhafar (Victory) School. 401 58 / ֡407 The Najma Newspaper / 407 59 / 413 I Had Been Misledl / 413 60 / 415 The Day I was Fired / 415 61 / 419 Another Page from the Revolution of the Iraqi Arabs / 419 62 / 427 British Political Organisations in Iraq / 427 63 / 437 The Outcome of the Revolution in Iraq / 437 Iraq and Faisal’s Accession to the Throne / 437 The Kurdish Question / 437 Faisal in Syria / 443 64 / 451 Faisal was Crowned King of Syria / 451 65 / 459 How the Turks Achieved their Goals in the Conferences / 459 The London Conference and the Kurds / 460 The Question of Kurds and Armenians / 463
Volume II / 467 Part 3 / 467 Book Five / 467
A Plea and a Minor Correction / 471 The First Cabinet of / 473 Sayid Abdul Rahman / 473 Al-Naqeeb and the Kurdish Question / 473 Discussion of the Kurdish Question / 483 For the Attention of the Royal Palace of His Hashimite Majesty / 491 66 / 499 The Anglo-lraqi Treaty / 499 How the Founding Council Was Convened / 501 And the Valiant Efforts of the People / 501 How the Treaty was Pushed Through / 505 The Peace Conference and the Kurdish Question / 507 The British and the Arabs / 511 67 / 517 Turkish Meddling and Intrigue / 517 The Society of Kurdistan / 523 68 / 525 Back to Teaching / 525 Mustafa Pasha and Isma’il Agha-i Shukak (Simko) / 529 The Mosul Question / 533 And the Second-round Government of Sheikh Mahmud / 533 The conditions in Slemani Prior to the Return of Sheikh Mahmud / 541 The Ceremony of Raising of the Kurdistan Flag / 541 Raising the Flag of Kurdistan / 545 69 / 546 I did not see Sheikh Qadir until the Return of Sheikh Mahmud / 547 70 / 549 The Return of Sheikh Mahmud to Slemani / 549 The Period of Sheikh Mahmud’s Self-imposed Seclusion and the Establishment of the Ministerial Cabinet / 555 The Ruler Comes out of Seclusion / 561 The Manner with which Sheikh Mahmud had Conducted Himself before King Faisal and the High Commissioner / 565
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