The Kurds a Nation of Genocides

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Éditeur : Apec förlag	Date & Lieu : 2013-01-01, Stockholm
Préface :	Pages : 272
Traduction :	ISBN : 978-91-86139-71-1
Langue : Anglais	Format : 135 x 210 mm
Code FIKP : Liv. Eng. Koi. Kur. N° 5224	Thème : Général

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The Kurds a Nation of Genocides Kristiina Koivunen Apec Förlag The target of this book is ta describe the history of genocide during the twentieth century in North and South Kurdistan, an area ruled by the Ottomans from 1514 to 1923, but nowadays the lraqi and Turkish parts of Kurdistan. The book consists of three main historical themes. First I describe how the Ottoman Kurdistan was divided after the First World War (1914-1918) between Turkey and Iraq, and the Turks and Arabs started forced assimilation of the Kurds. West Kurdistan (the Syrian part of Kurdistan) although also part of the Ottoman state, is outside this research ...

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Contents

Map of Kurdistan / 15
List of Abbreviations / 17
Introduction / 21
Research about the Kurdish genocide process / 25
Sources and research methods / 29
Sources / 29
Extreme research / 30
Field work in two war zones / 32
Researching Kurdistan / 36
Ethics of research about genocides / 39
The case for considering the victim's perspective / 40
Theoretical approach / 43
Proto-nationalism / 43
Genocide theories / 44
The United Nations Convention against Genocide / 44
Raphaël Lemkin's genocide method categorisation / 45
Genocide of a prote-national group / 49
Kurdistan and the Kurds / 51
Kurds in the Ottoman state / 55
Yezidis / 57
Barzanî area, a non-Ottoman enclave / 59
Collapse process of the Ottoman state / 60
The Armenian genocide / 64
Treaty of Sevrés 1920 / 66
Treaty of Lausanne 1923 / 67
Divided Kurdistan / 71
Kurds in Iraq / 72
Kurds in Turkey / 75
Local uprisings / 79
Sheikh Mahmoud's rebellions 1919 and 1922-23 / 79
The Sheikh Said rebellion 1925 / 79
The Ararat Rebellion 1929-1930 / 81
The Barzanîan revolts / 83
Resistance in Dêrsim / 85
Halabja uprisings / 87
Lack of Kurdish cooperation / 88
Modern national liberation movemehts / 91
Kurdistan Democratic Party KDP / 91
Patriotic Union of Kurdistan PUK / 91
Kurdistan Workers' Party PKK / 92
Militarization in Iraq and Turkey / 95
Ba'athist dictatorship in Iraq / 95
Military rule in Turkey / 96
Militarization of Kurdistan / 113
Warfare in Iraq and Turkey / 115
Turkey's membership in NATO and CENTO / 115
The Algiers Accord / 116
War between the lraqi army and Kurdish peshmergas in South Kurdistan 117
Iran-Iraq War / 118
Uprising Raperîn / 119
War in North Kurdistan / 121
Genocide process in South Kurdistan / 133
Cultural genocide / 133
Yezidi massacres / 134
Fayli deportations / 139
Disappearance of the Barzanî men / 140
The question of Kirkuk / 145
Chemical attacks / 148
Chemical bombing in Halabja / 151
The Antal Campaign / 154
Eight waves of Antal / 156
Antal families / 164
Post-genocide South Kurdistan / 166
Genocide process in North Kurdistan / 173
Deportation / 173
Dêrsim massacre / 179
Other massacres of the Alevites / 185
Mass execution in 1943 knowns as "33 bullets" / 187
Cultural genocide / 188
Destruction of Kurdistan's history / 189
Linguicide / 190
Education as a method to Turkify Kurds / 194
Destruction of the Yezidi communities / 196
Political assassinations and covert actions / 200
Post-genocide Turkey / 206
Research about the Kurds / 209
Research about the Kurds in Iraq / 210
Research about the Kurds in Turkey / 211
Conclusion: Genocide process in North and South Kurdistan / 215
The Kurdish genocide process / 215
Kurdish nationalism / 225
Danger of continuing genocide / 229
Need for research about the Kurdish genocide / 233
Acknowledgements / 237
Appendix: History of North and South Kurdistan / 241
References / 245

Index / 267