Is it Time for Kurdish Independence?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ก.พ. 2025
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Kurdish ambitions for independence and their own oil revenue is raising alarm bells in Washington and Baghdad. Tensions are escalating, with both sides threatening violence.
According to US official Jon Cebra, the Kurds welcomed the overthrow of Saddam Hussein as an opportunity to reintegrate into the rest of Iraq. But on the streets of the Kurdish capital, Irbil, no-one s interested in reintegretion. Independence is on its way because Iraq s future is to be divided . The Kurds now have their own government and army and collect their own taxes. But more significantly, they're signing their own oil deals, and it's a very sensitive issue. The Kurdish government is also going to extreme lengths to boost the Kurdish population of Kirkuk, which it hopes will become the new capital. They gave $10,000 to people to come back , states Azadeen. The Kurds were once said to be America's best friends in the Middle East. Now, they wonder whether their independence was ever part of America's plans. There was meant to be a referendum last December on the issue. That vote has now been postponed indefinitely but the issue is not going away. " If the referendum is not implemented, we are afraid that something will happen". states President Massoud Barzani. "What may happen, I can't tell you now. But for sure it will not remain like now ."
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Ofc the time has come !
This Belgian supports the Kurdish independence !
The Kurds deserve their own country.Free them from dictator Erdogan.
America supports the Kurds to .isis can burn
+Varri Varrichio
NORTHERN IRAQ IS (OCCUPIED ASSYRIA) & IT BELONGS ONLY TO THE I DIGENOUS ASSYRIANS. IF YOU LIKE QUDS SO MUCH THEN OPEN YOUR HOUSE TO THEM YA DOG!!!!
thesacrisant belgian hates pkk apo terrorist supporters, who ever supports pkk - ypg and that terrorist fool named abdullah ocalan will get locked up...
+Adam Zaar
Your trolling wont help
"This isn't the first or last time the Kurdish people will be without international support..." Wow, that woman was spot on
After all THIS IS KURDISTAN AND KURDS LIVE IN THEIR COUNTRY!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Support from India
I hope kurdistan will get independence state they deserve!! From KOSOVA
Tafil Doroci thank you brother we love kosovo
I love Kosovoa people, and have so many friends from there❤
Love kurdiston from Brazil
doesnt matter ❤️❤️❤️❤️
Kurdish people deserve their land and independence.
-- Who are the kurds? There are nearly 35-40 million kurds in the world, kurds are from aryan, kurdish is in Indo-European languages, most of kurds are muslim but we have non-muslim kurds, kurds founded many state in the past such as the Hurrians, the Medians, the Mervanids, the Hasanwayhids, the Rawadids, the Shaddadids, Saladin Ayyubi was also kurd but today, kurds are the most crowded stateless people in the world,
-- Why kurds are stateless? Our lands are controlled by turks since 1049, turks weren't in anatolia even 11th century, turks came anatolia after the battle of kapetron, after the turkic invasion, we could founded some state but they couldn't exist a long time, ottoman empire lost worl war I in 1918, we could found our state like arabs, but our ancestors believed republic of turkey's founder kamal's lies, ottoman empire behaved well to kurds, because our religion are same, but kamal founded a racist system, kurdistan diveded into four by british empire, france and turkey in the treaty of Lausanne, then north kurdistan was given to turkey, South kurdistan was given to ıraq, West kurdistan was given to syria, East kurdistan was given to ıran, south kurdistan won self-government, when syrian civil war started syria forces retreated, then west kurds declared self-government but no side recognize them, west(rojava) kurdistan is under attack by turkey, ısıs, al-nusra and syria also North and east kurds have nothing, even our language and our culture were banned for years, we don't have education with our mother language, there is no enough school and hospital, there is no electricity, there is no water, there is no road in many kurdish villages and town, even many people are illiterate, many kurdish families left kurdish lands and their children forgot kurdish then they assimilated in forein lands
-- What is our purpose? we are try to found a democratic republic, we are the most supporter of women's rights in the islamic countries maybe in the world, our women and men militaries are fighting aganist ısıs together, we are respect all religions and all opinions, we saved the non-muslims from ısis, we gave equal rights to non-muslims, we gave non-kurds education with their mother language, on the contrary we don't have enough support to found a free state, we need help
Kurds are ancient people. They have always existed way before most european countries. But the west denies them because they are afraid of thier power. Kurds are descendents of the Medes, they were part of the Persian empire and the west hate that, because they are jealous of our ancient history and potential power.
love for all kurdish leaders
Italy love Kurdistan 🇮🇹🇮🇹
Viva Kurdistan from Albanian end Kosova 🇦🇱🇦🇱
Kerkok belong to Kurdish people ! Arab and Turk out!
Love and Peace Kerkük is Turkish
Cenk Özkan in wich planet ?
correct.. Turkey/anatolia belongs to you !.syria's oil and water belongs to you.iraqi's oil, waters and cities belongs to you..iran belongs to you..caucasia belongs to you..maybe you want to cyprus too in future ? armenia ? azerbaycan ??...i cant understand why the western people support this dangerous folk. hey.westerns..you cant know kurds better than me.,so insidious people on the world..they are inside ISIS...they are inside PKK/YPG terror gang..millions iraqi and syrian people killed for great kurdistan.
TFCKR21
because they got the power.look at the history i has always been like this
Love and Peace Kerkuk belongs to Turkmens and Arabs!
Öncelikle hepinizden anlayışlı olmanızı bekliyorum.Küfür etmek şerefsen yoksunluğunuzu belirtir.Anlıyorum arkadaşlar kabul etmek zor, toprakdan pay olmaz ancak türkler bu topraklara ayak basmadan önce buralarda hep kürdler yaşıyordu.Bütün tarih kitaplarında hatta bizim ülkede Azerbeycanda bile böyle kabul olunuyor.O topraklarda yaşamak kürdlerin birebir hakkı.Ben türkleri de kürdleri de seviyorum.
Biji kurds from your ethnic bro Talyshistane!
+Sadiq Mehralizade bəli tarixən kürdlər və talışlar hətta Azərilər birlikdə yaşayıblar.Kadusilər talışlar,Şəddaidlər kürdlərdi.İrqçilik etmək ayıbdır
+Sadiq Mehralizade eynen qardaş.Senin kimi fikirleşenleri,doğru fikirleşenleri görende çox sevinirem.Esl türkler bu deqiqe Qırğızıstanda,Türkmənistanda,Monqolustanda və Çinin qərbində yaşayanlardır.Azərbaycanlıların sadəcə dilləri türk dilidir.Özleri ise Qafqaz irqine aiddir.Beli biz türkleri qardaşımız kimi sevirik ama özümüz türk deyilik çox güman ki...
+Sadiq Mehralizade cox dogrudur qardaşım.Bilinir ki araşdırıb oxumusan tarixi.Teessüfler olsun ki bizim zibil derslik kitablarda reallıqları gizledirler.Yeni dövrün uşaqları da bu yalana aldanıb gedirler.Azerbaycan torpağı tarixen qedim milletlerin yaşadığı erazilerdi kürdler,talışlar,ermeniler,farslar,ləzgilər,avarlar və s.Bizim millətə ingiliscə belə bir ad vermək olar turkified iranians.Çox böyük dövrə görə tariximiz Osmanlı və farsların təsiri altında olub qarışıb digər millətlərdən qarışıq bir irq formalaşan xalq kimi yaranmışıq.Səncə belədir doğrudanda?
Bayram Celik Cesaretli olup o toprakları işgâl etmek önemli tabi :/ :)
Səmral Vəliyev Din Kardaşım Allah senden her daim razı olsun gerçekten akıllı düşünen eden insan bi başkadır çok yorulduk bu boş davalardan her şeyimizi tükettik artık bitsin kavgalar, dövüşler 😔
thanks to all good people
Long liv Kurdistan
Over 100 years have passed and Kurds still do not have a homeland of their own. The referendum was a national right, and what happened to Human Right's principles of Democracy and Freedom that they talk about day and night? It was ruined by people who were against and not supportive of this process of democracy. The KRG agreed that the referendum wasn't the right time, but the United State of America said that KRG should postpone it for 2-3 years and then if you do that the U.S would respect the result of the referendum. The KRG said instead of saying "respect" the KRG requested the U.S the right "support" for the result and we will postpone it. The U.S didn't say "support" and they didn't promise the KRG support, and for this reason, the KRG had the absolute reason and right for not being convinced and to postpone it with no promising support from the U.S would do more harm.
In fact, many western countries ignored this peaceful process and should be ashamed. With support from western countries, we could create an independent Kurdistan of democracy and stability and it would be a gift to the world to show that Kurds are pro-democratic pro-western, but unfortunately, it seemed difficult for you and you made a mistake for not supporting this new uprising state. The Kurds have nothing to apologize for but to be warmly thanked by the whole world for the role of fighting ISIS, and if it wasn't for the Kurds for helping Iraq liberate Mosul they would have been much more bloodshed. The referendum has and will always be an excuse for Iraq, Iran, Turkey, and Syria for not letting Kurds achieve their dream of Freedom.
This is a nation who has fought against terrorist and spilled their own blood for independent KURDISTAN, Iraq treats Kurds bad and cut the "bread" food source for Kurds, that means that Iraq is the biggest enemy to humanity! Kurds are neither Arabs, Turks nor Persians, THEY ARE KURDS!!!!!!! INDEPENDENT KURDISTAN NOW AND FOREVER!!!!!
Free Kurdistan
Yes yes Kurdistan will have independence it is close
This is either really old (2007-2008), or is filled with a lot of misinformation.
If its old or not.The fact stays,Give the Kurds their own country.Then will there be peace in that region.
kurdishgeneral. It says 2008. Still, its reported by an Australian journalist who doesnt seem to like the idea of an independent Kurdish nation. Pity that.
Love Kurdistan people 🧡🧡🥰🥰❤❤❤
Kurdistan❤ 🇺🇸 for the Kurdish ❤
@sandraalvarez5894 Yes Kurdistan for Kurdistan and America are the best friend of Kurdistan long live America and Kurdistan and Israel ❤️ Italy
Israel supports the Kurdish people! It's high time they got their own land and weapons so they can't get kicked around and have to fight for survival every single day. Give these people a home already! #israelloveskurdistan
we love israel love from Kurdistan
Yes yes yessssssss for kurdistan free
Free Kurdistan from Iraq , Kirkuk belongs to Kurdistan, help Iraq in exploring oil and gas fields in southern iraq
I believe Kurdistan in Syria should not become independent because this will just produce more fighting yes we have treated the Kurds badly as well as opposition they both should be given full rights as other citizens, as for Iraqi Kurdistan I don't have enough information to speak about it
Gimli the dwarf
lol? when we were weak you wanted to oppress us. now all of a sudden we're fellow citizens? doesnt work like that mate.
Podesta is Moloch most of the Syrian population does consider you to be fellow citizens one of my best friends was a Kurd and I didn't give a shit about it a lot of my friends actually, in Syria it wasn't about being a Kurd or not it was about social class
It's wrong for rojava to become a sovereign state because Syrian Kurds are respected and are already in the Syrian mixture actors,workers..etc
Although I can't deny poor Kurds weren't given their rights but so were poor Arabs! Separation will cause hate towards Kurds from the Arabs and vice versa
Gimli the dwarf
there is already hate between them. i dont know where you were living, but in syria the kurds didnt even have passports. they also couldnt buy land, and could only sell it to arab. syria was/is a ba'athist regime, aka arab supremacy. i dont doubt you see kurds as your fellow citizen, but the overt majority, as well as your goverent has indisputably engaged in many crimes and atrocities against the kurds.
the hate between kurds and arabs has never been higher. creating an own sovereign nation doesnt change it enough to matter.
besides, it was only a matter of time. its always just a matter of time. same with iraq.
Podesta is Moloch it won't be in the greater good of both lands independence will only produce more fighting and hate, this is how they divide lands it's crazy how easy they make it look (USA) just tell one group you deserve more than the others,others hate you and so on and soon they'll believe that.
Unity is strong
rojava is Kurdistan bakur is Kurdistan rojhelat is Kurdistan bashur is Kurdistan
Thanks from producers of this film ..... in fact kurdish poeple are one of the noble tribes of Iran that are famous for their beauty and bravery.... governor of Iran is originally from arabian country... he fears from power of kurdish poeple ... so this reason have had a lot of rude against kurdish poeple .... best wishes for poeple that join to this group in spite of its hardness ... but hardness will be easy when u walk in truth path .....please be kindly voice of kurdish poeple.....
Perhaps the mystery is not so deep; think Thanksgiving in the US, the prize, of course is a turkey. My, what we'd do for a turkey could be considered even shameful.
Kurdistan is no more a part of Iraq
But what about Armenia? I've seen that they want a United Armenia where its western part includes parts of Kurdistan. Will there be a conflict between the Kurds abd Armenians?
Luqman Nazery fuck armenia weak ass bitches
might is right ;D
they shoudnt do it until they do something about their situation in turkey it doesnt make sence to me iran and turkey have the biggest population of kurds
Jn RAM yeah you know why cos the kurds migrated to turkey in the 70s that's why, they were running away from saddam.. so turkey opened it's borders and welcomed this filthy ungrateful terrorist fuckers in
Adam Zaar what a bullshit propaganda
العرب محل شك والأكراد يتحركون بكل حرية في محافظات العراق
after 15:18 that face expression is priceless
i dont like the iraqi kurds government they work to closely the kdp works to closely with turkey and puk with iran both supress kurds in their own countries
De kurdistan wil be independent and after de part of kurdistan van Turky.
does kurds deserves it ? yes
but with the current reccision no
Kurdistan will become independent If this is in america's interest, and it looks like it for now so they are helping the Kurds to have a corridor between Iraq n the med, that way they can build their Qatar gas pipeline to the med to try n stop the EU buying Russian Gas, something the Russians n Turks wont be happy with, best option is an Autonomous region but Baghdad will want to have to final say about the gas pipe so sadly for Kurds this is not likely to happen unless us troops are willing n happy to fight thwe Turks n Russians for the benefit of their globalist masters
And cuz the world hates Kurdistan because Kurdistan have lots of good things
kord kordish. are iranian they speaking iranian language the
Iran is killing kurds
Being Iranian for Kurdish people is only a way to assimilate Kurdish people and nothing more. Kurds are Kurdustani.
no it is not the time for that