I was in Syria 2017. The Kurds where and still are one of the most humble people I’ve ever met. They are kind, generous, and very resourceful. They also fight like dogs backed in a corner. They brought light to the ignorance that I had for the people who follow Islam. I left with a whole new understanding of the people and cultures of the Middle East. I hope one day they can have a land of their own.
The land we think we own isn’t ours to keep but it will surely keep our bones someday. Thank you for your kind words. All the peoples of Mediterranean have similar characteristics. We are warm and friendly even with strangers. We are familiar with different faces and their customs. We are familiar with many religions and languages. We have witnessed many empires rise and fall. Our soils are fertile with the blood of the mighty warriors from every corner of the world. We don’t need a piece of land. We need peace and prosperity for everyone which is so easy to fulfill only with the money and effort spend on wars. Don’t promise us a place in heaven please. Let’s build the heaven on earth together.
From an outsider's perspective, there's very little not to like about the Kurdish people. They work hard, mind their own business when they can, and fight like hell when they have to. I don't think anyone really knows what their future holds, but I hope whatever happens, it leads to a more prosperous and peaceful future. They deserve as much, at the very least
As a Kurd I believe you should have given more detail on anfal and how inhumanly brutal it was, I don't think it's talked about enough. It's extremely difficult for me to hear or see any pictures of it but I think the world needs to know for the sake of humanity and all the victims.
@@The.Alchemist-d2vSo arabs have a right to kill 200,000 innocent people cuz their leader had a collaboration with the only democrat in the middle east?
@@rovankamal7647 barzani family is a threat to kurdish independence. The only kurdish leaders that should be looked up to and should be idolized are Salahuddin and Qazi Muhammad.
Thanks very much for your informations about great Kurdish people, which liev tausends of years in the same area. Salut from Switzerland with mounten and without see as Kürdistan.
Kurdistan and Kurds are upper Mesopotamia endogenous people , close tie with Sumerian , Aryan and hurricane , pity after WW1 colonialism divided Kurdistan over newly made fake countries like Turkey , Iran , Iraq and Syria , mistake or crime done by English and French last century need to be corrected now , it’s 21 century everyone has to be free for self determination so as Kurds
I’m from Mexico and even tho my country doesn’t have any reason to be involved with the Kurdistan problem but I still have nothing but respect for all the Kurdish people. I don’t know why other powers just couldn’t be fine with a Kurdish state
@@lavieenconfinement3511 yeah It’s just stupid cuz I’ve met a couple Kurds and they are nothing but humble and very friendly people I’ve met from that region of the world it feels like. I honestly rly hope they will one day find independence
@@Chorizero2369 we have a sad history, we have been and divided into 2 empires. So Ottoman Empire and Saffavid empire (persian) used kurds to kill each other. Every kurd can speak at least 2-3 language in the region. Other nations cans only speak one language. Kurdish people are the most democratic and equal people between men and women. Our kurdish women fought against Daesh dogs. My aunt she herself fought for our freedom. May her soul rest in peace.
The title deeds of the Armenian province are available in the Ottoman state archives. Today, the heir of the Ottoman Empire, the Republic of Turkey, has the authority to hand over the Armenian province to the Armenians again when the time comes. The peaceful repatriation of the nomadic Kurds, who colonized historical Armenia, to Mesopotamia and Iran is within the authority of the Republic of Turkey. Israel is a good example
Tbf put any other group of people in between those states and they wouldn’t win either. Iran has almost always had a great military and so has Turkey and those are just 2/4
@@skp8748 To many Kurds everyone they deal with is an outside power. What’s the difference between meeting a leader in Istanbul and joining with them in an alliance vs London to them? Both of them are foreigners that don’t care about them but atleast the London guns shoot better.
@@skp8748To the Kurds, the Arabs are also outsiders. Makes it worse when Arabs tried to genocide them after the Iran-Iraq War. They have no reason to side with their "countrymen" who merely treat them as troublemakers or lesser citizens, compared to outsiders who at least are giving them some sort of a helping hand.
As a US citizen it is quite painful that we have not given the Kurdish nation the support it deserves. It was my hope that the actions of the Peshmerga & other units against ISIS would galvanize more overt support...but geopolitics have screwed the Kurds at every turn.
Yeah it’s too bad Barzani tried to push the independence referendum in 2017, and then central gov in Iraq took back Kirkuk - and all of it’s massive oil revenue. Kurdish control lasted 2014-2017. 2014 was when the Kurds liberated Kirkuk from ISIS.
I was deployed to the Kirkuk area in 06 and 07 at FOB Mchenry. Worked side by side with the Peshmerga and felt super safe with them. They don’t mess around when it comes to warfare. All the Kurdish people I ever had the pleasure of meeting were always kind and friendly. But a lot of the people I had met in my time on that deployment were nice and kind people. It’s just a different culture and way of life that some people lose sight on.
@@mrb7057i dont see referendum as wrong thing, i voted for yes i saw it as our basic right. And before i vote for Yes i questioned me should i vote for yes? I came to result why in middle east they made some very small countries for some tribes but why freedom for 50 million kurdish with their own language and culture is wrong thing ?
@@ferquentenrique8373 I dont know where were turkmen when saddam hussain regime was ruling? We never heard any turkmen to say kirkuk is turkmen city, cause he could kill all of you in one single hour. Once kurdistan government had been formed they recognized all of small nations and religions in kurdistan cause they said we faced lots of genocide we dont want minorities to feel same as we felt, even turkey said there is no turkmen in this world at beginning. until lately they use you as pawn of game, when every thing come to peace turkemn raise n said kirkuk is turkmen city, The question is that what will turkmen do if another Saddam Hussein rise in iraq? Will you still say same thing ?
Kurdistan and Kurds are upper Mesopotamia endogenous people , close tie with Sumerian , Aryan and hurricane , pity after WW1 colonialism divided Kurdistan over newly made fake countries like Turkey , Iran , Iraq and Syria , mistake or crime done by English and French last century need to be corrected now , it’s 21 century everyone has to be free for self determination so as Kurds
I'm Iranian and I love Kurds, I love their culture and their language! I believe Kurdistan has enough cultural and geographical unity to turn into a country. they are lovely people ,I have had classmates from Kermanshah, he was one of my best friends during mid-school. Also I strongly believe that Middle East before British colonisation have had open boarders in between ethnicities, there were no clear boarder, there were Turkish and Persian and Arabic cities who decided to protect certain geographical regions ,but never like after what the world has become after World War Two. I think the strong boarder ownerships began in Middle East region with the British, where they sow regions as belongings and wealth , you can ask any Arab ,Kurd, Turkish, Armenian ,Persian you know and they will agree, there were no boarder ownership in entire Middle East and because of that ethnicities rarely fought and if they did there usually was a conflict between sultans that forced them to join X or Y army. Kurds just like all other ethnicities in Middle East have a large population, they are the decedents of the Ancient Medes & Hattush (Hitties). so we know that they have had their own historical eras at some point. There always been good relations between Kurds and their neighbours up untill saddam and all other dictators who emerged after him in the region that is why it is important to keep in mind as any included/neighbouring people to Kurdistan that it would be a different relation between us if we went to war against Kurds than peacefully accepting their demand, remember these boarders we have today? they were not the boarders we decided to have, if the problem will solve with separation of Kurdistan so let it be so, we have a stronger bound in between us. I rather this friendship between us and Kurds because they are great people than destroying it because of greed and pride, I would hate it if I know one day people in my country and people in Kurdistan would have a slightest hate towards each other that was the product of a war that happened between our people. that has more value to us than having different shape on a worthless political map, remember we are human at the first place, and to be realistic about nationality, there is only one country we should all worry about and that is the Earth itself.
I agree, there were no borders. I'm from Kurdistan of Iraq, but half of my relatives live in Kurdistan of Iran which shows that people used to move freely without borders getting in the way. All the Kurds on the border cities have relatives in other parts of Kurdistan.
Persians & kurds should make a strong super state, with area from Iraq + Turkey plus beyond. Even Azerbajdzjan & Armenia. The future is unity, not wars.
This is very narrow thinking woke argument with modern colonialism of the brittish. Just to go back a little bit, The ottomans suppresed and took down arab nationalism, kurdish nationalism, Assyrians, jews, armenian with many more ethniticies. The muslims conqueror in history suppresed all non beliver until they either converted or had to become second citizens and pay tax (only people from the book) the rest they killed or had to convert - indigenous Arabian polytheism, ancient Semitic religions, Christianity, Judaism, Mandaeism, Hinduism and Zoroastrianism etc. It was not peace with kurds before Saddam. I hope one day that the kurds will get a land, and all of them move away from Europe, North America etc and fill that land with knowledge and democracy, you are smart people!
I think the Kurds deserve better than the card they’ve been dealt from your analysis. I hope the Kurd factions can put aside their differences and work together for independence
@@TwentyZZ24 does land belong to someone who manages to establish an internationally wide recognized state or does it belong to people who are indeginous to this land? Most countries that have been established, e.g. Germany, France, Russia, etc., were made by people who are indeginous to that land. Turkey, USA, Israel however, are states established by people, who settled/colonized indeginous land. This being said, there is a vast majority of people criticising states of people who arent indeginous to that land, rather than those states which are of the indeginous. Because of that, land belongs to people who are indeginous to it, so yes, the land of the kurds, that turkey, iraq and iran took unjustly in the treaty of ankara and the treaty of lausanne BELONGS TO THE KURDISH PEOPLE.
What we need as Kurds: 1: Air Force. 2: an influential leader who can show our people that we can put our cultural differences to the side and stand together whether in Syria, Iraq, Iran, or Turkey. The money and western support is there for it. As the largest ethnic minority in the world without a country, it’s a slap in the face by the international community that more has not been done for us.
*No* *No* *NO!* you need negotiation, there is no need for war, don't make yourselves look like rebels and terrorist by going to war with 4 biggest countries on Middle East. you already have a big population and united geography, there is no need to die, I honestly would advice you to look at this with bigger scope, you Kurds have respect in the region ,specially in Iran and Iraq, you could spend 10 years of negotiation and manage to create your own nation, or go to war with those countries for again 10 years, loose millions of people and most likely not create Kurdistan. it's the only reality, accept it and you will have a bright future, you will have Kurdistan, Inshallah, just act smart. Kurds are not loose criminals like ISIS in between boarders, so don't make yourselves look like them, don't label yourselves with ugly words such as _Terrorists_ because you are not! you are a nation! you are a ethnicity! make sure you peacefully work towards it, it might take 20 years, but it will be well worth it. trust me, I spend 20 years study history and culture, I learned this, this is the only recipe for Kurdistan, remember Armenian genocide! turkey have had 20% Armenian population during the ottoman era, they wanted to separate and 60% of them were murdered! this could be the reality of Kurdistan if there would be a war in the region, *Don't let them threat you as rebels* can you imagine 60 million of Kurds turn to 30 millions scattered between 4 countries, that would not even be big enough to try a second time. Act smart, I support Kurdistan, love from Iran
You can’t acknowledge in the same comment that the west will have your back, while also claiming that you get no international support lol. That makes no sense
What you need is not attacking the Federal German police at your rallies, every time with serious injuries at the police. German police should adapt Israeli procedures, to tell them how them to behave.
You forgot to mention that British Air force bombing the kurdish villages and resistance with Iraqian army from 1921 to 1958 and destroyed hundreds of villages because Iraq was created by Britain after first World War. My grand father fought against British when Britain occupied kurdistan after WW1 with his 300 fighters, and one day when the british army attacked his region, called shameran he shot down a British fighter plane. My grand father name was Muhammad san Ahmed. Respect for your video
Well, Churchill did test Britain's first chemical gas bombs on Kurdish villagers hiding within caves. The point with Kurdistan that everyone can take from the activities conducted against the Kurds is that Kurdistan exists as a lawless paradise for external powers to commit crimes with impunity.
@@arwing20 Expand on that a little more. What did they lose? What are they keeping on loosing? Why can't they have their state, what's your argument for that? Come on, show us how smart you are.
Any smart person knows that unity means peace, prosperity and power to defend yourself. The real traitors are those who want to be divided. They are so brainwashed with their ethnicity and the lie of fake freedom that they don’t even realize they are putting themselves in great danger because the predator’s tactic is divide and conquer. The history is full of examples with this. The nature is full of examples with this. Every predator attacks the weaker member. Lions, wolves, etc. first create a diversion and divide the tribe so that they can get what they want! Even small stupid fish know how to defend themselves against large predators. They come together and pretend to be large even though they are not. Besides why side with foreigners who are only interested in our natural resources rather than work with our neighbors with whom we are sharing the land together for 1000s of years? Neither the Kurds nor the Turks who live in Turkiye want to divide. On the contrary, we want to unite all the nations in and around our lands so that we can bring peace and prosperity back. The history writes it was the British who drew the recent borders in the Middle East. They had divided our lands so that it will be difficult for us to unite again. Because they are well aware of us sending them back where they came from when we are united. They even planted a puppet government Israel right in the middle of Islamic states just to cause more conflict in the area. Wasn’t it more peaceful before the Brits? Didn’t we live in peace and prosper together for hundreds of years? Stop blaming Turks for the wars happening in the Middle East! The wars were in Europe when Turks ruled in the Middle East! Don’t be a fool my dear neighbor, my brother, my sister! “Sürüden ayrılanı kurt kapar!”
If you love them so much, you can give them some territory from your country, so they can establish Kurdistan there and not steal lands from other countries. Win-Win
@@kral16643 US can’t even conquer Vietnam and Afghanistan, man. How are they gonna conquer 100 million populated Turkey? 😂 They’re all gay in US. They can’t fight like a man 😂😂
When I was in Iraq, during the US backed first election since the 1950s, there were seats in Iraqi parliament set aside for Kurdish leaders. They were in control of a large portion of Northern Iraq that US forces called Kurdistan and when our troops went there to visit the dam and even swim in the reservoir were able to walk around the Kurdish villages without their body armor and weapons. I was unable to go on the mission, though, so this is coming from my little brother and his rifle squad members (we were squad leaders together for ten out the thirteen months we spent there). Everyone of the twenty or so of our battalion's interpreters were Kurds and many of the Iraqi soldiers and police officers in the Mosul region were as well. Every single Kurdish soldier and police officer I met spoke Arabic, Kurdish, Turkish and English. A few spoke Russian and Persian. These weren't always traditionally educated men, though a few had graduated from the University of Mosul, but rather had learned all the languages out of both a need to survive and an unspoken good natured competition between one another as to whom could be the most fluent in the most languages. I found them all to be good men, highly intelligent soldiers and solid fighters.
The Kurds are very well liked among the us military, and Erbil probably has the highest number of US troops. They're great fighters and courageous people. Imo they're the sole reason Iraq wasn't overrun by ISIS, as the official Iraqi army wasn't putting up a fight and the PMF wasn't really armed and established. I hope one day they will be strong enough and supported enough to prevent turkey and Iran from bombing them whenever they want.
Appreciate your kind words as a kurd brother, I wish you luck and happiness in life, you sound very intelligent yourself and hopefully one day Kurdistan will be established and you will be more than welcome to visit.
If you love them so much, you can give them some territory from your country, so they can establish Kurdistan there and not steal lands from other countries. Win-Win
@@Alierturk7 stfu Mongol, you really have no shame, this is there own land, why does another country have to give them land?? they want their own land the one you stole from them, it's written in every history book, a Greek jew man name Kemal created turkey and stole the Kurdish land even though he promise he will give them independence if they support him against greek
Ive been wanting to know more about Kurdistan since i 1st heard about it back in school from a classmate who happend to be from MASSIVE Kurdish family... i didnt really understand at 1st but, ive come along way... and Thankyou for the vid on topic here buddy i appriciate your effort
Kurdistan and Kurds are upper Mesopotamia endogenous people , close tie with Sumerian , Aryan and hurricane , pity after WW1 colonialism divided Kurdistan over newly made fake countries like Turkey , Iran , Iraq and Syria , mistake or crime done by English and French last century need to be corrected now , it’s 21 century everyone has to be free for self determination so as Kurds
With respect to all the countries and nations of the world, the Kurdish nation, with a population of more than fifty million and a well-known language and ancient culture and civilization, deserves a government. I hope the great powers will understand. Please introduce Kurdistan to the world with a video.❤
No they never, they created the safe haven in 1991 after the first gulf war and have had a presence ever since. Including support, it is no accident DAESH didn’t get much further than Mosul with its predominantly Arab population. The current issues are about the enclave areas in which the surrounding countries claim, the core of Kurdistan is stable.
They fought with alongside us when we were in Iraq. Their AOR was the ONLY area we felt safe for good reason: They stopped taking shit from the rest of that "country" once they saved Northern Iraq from Daesh. They organized their militias unlike Arabic Shiites and Sunnis in-fighting over scraps of Hussein's former reign. Incredibly brave, absolutely steadfast in their resolve, patriotic to their cause and they are fiercely protective over their identity. I respect that as a Native American. Now that Sweden is joining NATO, I wonder what Turkey bargained in regards to the PKK and Kurdish independence.
In Sweden PKK has been presented as representing a lot of the Kurds for years. It's only in present times that reports of lokal actors blackmailing other Kurds and funneling the money to PKK. Public opinion in that matter is changing fast but at the same time there is a clash between Turkish interpretation of freedom of religion and Swedish interpretation of freedom of speech. I think forces outside Sweden nudged Turkey to acctept Sweden into Nato rather than Sweden following all of Turkeys demands.
If there is one singular redeeming fact about Bush 41, it's the no-fly zone he instituted over Iraqi Kurdistan. At least some people survived the chemical raids this way. It's also weird how one of the heroes of the Muslim world, Yusuf ibn Ayub, better known as Salahuddin was a Kurd and born in Tikrit. Saddam was not kurdi, but born in the same city and tried to exterminate them.
So given that, and I agree mostly, why did the Peshmerga collapse in just days when the Iraqi Army moved into Kurdish areas to the edge of the governorates of Dohuk, Erbil and Sulimania? I wouldnt down play the Iraqi forces so much - yes they melted away in disgrace from ISIS in 2014 (which was a result of horrible governing by the Iraqis making Sunnis the underclass, and hence easy to recruit). But the Gold Division were the primary fighters in battle for Mosul which was so long and difficult due to all the vast tunnel systems built. The Militias were more of a follow-up police force and not front line soldiers then. Some were for their own groups (Christian Militias - Chaldeans), Turkoman, Kakai' and Shabbak, so they acted as their own defense forces. The Shia militias were really in it for money - once Iran stopped funding them, they basically became occupying units and began kidnapping the wealthy for cash in some areas. I had to meet some militias for road access but soon a Iraqi National Police force moved in as the local force in Mosul.
There was a Kurdish population in Nagorno-Karabakh. They were expelled by the Armenians when Armenia took the region. They justified the expulsion because the Kurds had assisted in the Turkish genocide against the Armenians.
Kurds admitted their crime regarding Armenian Genocide. Yet they brazenly claim Van , Bitlis, Mush( places where Armenians massacred in their historic homeland ) as Kurdistan although those lands are within Armenian borders according to the first resolution of league of nations in Feb 1920. Besides, Kurds will never make free people country even for Kurds themselves. Because you are like north Korea, Syria, azerbaijan, the son inherits presidency from father!!!???
@@yusufcetin9732 turks will never learn the easy way. turks not only don't regret their crimes against humanity, which all the world knows. But, brazenly deny.
@@thegratepotato1281 You are talking like an American. It is an American way to thank for your service. We in this part of the world don’t serve because we are not slaves. We help each other! From Turkiye
This was mostly neutral but there were still downplaying facts and some huge mistakes, for example PKK was so wickedly attacking civilians including even Kurdish civilians the second highest casualty in this conflict after terrorists themselves isn't Turkish army, police nor civilians at all rather it is actually KURDS, civilians and especially Kurdish village guards that PKK killed thousands of them! There are hundreds of villages in southeastern Turkey alone and because the region is extremely mountainous Turkish army couldn't protect all villages constantly and Kurdish villagers were becoming easy targets for PKK raids. As a solution the government trained and armed Kurdish civilians so they could defend themselves until the army arrived. I bet some people may think ''Kurdish'' PKK and Kurdish villagers didn't fight against each others but in reality it is terrorist PKK which was seizing their assests while calling it ''tax'' and even forcefully recruiting their children! So Kurdish village guards pretty much always fought against them even if they were greatly outnumbered, while PKK simply declared them as ''traitors'' and mercilessly killed thousands of them!! Especially in 90s their violence was out of control if a Kurdish intellectual could talk against PKK would be found dead in their homes. Suicide bombing attacks in public buses, squires, markets, stations, stadiums you name it and this is the reason why literally DOZENS of countries recognize PKK as a terrorist organization as they really are terrorists!! PKK isn't committing as many terrorist attacks as before doesn't prove they magically changed like some westerners claim. Rather it is mainly because they can not smuggle both arms and themselves through Turkish-Iraqi anymore because of constant surveillance by drones. In 90s the best Turkey could do was building border outposts along the mountanious border to literally watch the border with soldiers and several dozen soldiers in a mountain peak were often becoming a target themselves.. It is true KDP asked support from even saddam but they did that out of desperation, after years of infighting they were exhausted and with great Iranian support PUK was gaining upper hand. This was also the point PKK joined PUK alliance not after KDP asked support from Iraqi government, there is a timelapse for obvious reasons! It was also completely ignored after PUK territorial gains in 1997 Turkey invaded norhern Iraq with 60,000 soldiers as PKK alliance couldn't be allowed to win the civil war and gain huge support. Instead of the truth it is told like Barzani stopped the civil war by swinging his magical wand for obvious reasons. This Turkish intervention and ending the civil war in favour of KDP was also the reason why Turkey and Barzanis have been allies since then and 15 Turkish bases were built in KDP territories started from 1998 for training Peshmerga forces and providing security. It is also a completely a false Turkey blocked KRG's access to the world, in fact both Barzani and Talabani also many Iraqi Kurds have TURKISH diplomatic passports so they can travel through Turkey freely and ask for support from other nations. What more Turkey supposed to do than giving people diplomatic passports who aren't even Turkish citizens, huh?? Then they also completely ignored vast majority of KRG's trade travel through Turkey including 95% of their oil exports and this was the only reason KRG could survive so long. Then comes ''Turkey using PKK as an excuse to attack YPG'' nonsense, while in reality there are around TWO THOUSAND PKK terrorists in YPG's ranks, in fact even the commander of YPG is a ''former'' PKK terrorists called Mazloum Abdi! This isn't a secret or anything, just search his name you would see he is a known PKK terrorist, but no worries according to our ''trustworthy'' allies he retired being a terrorist and he is a democratic hero now!! Turkey will never ever accept this moronity, while the only way PKK terrorists can be declared innocent they will surrender and apologize to the people that they killed thousands of them. Until it happens Turkey will continue targeting them in every opportunity or YPG can cut it's ties with PKK, in fact Turkey actually asked it from US many times before starting operations against them which was ofc forgotten again! However with even it's commander being a PKK terrorist i guess it is extremely unlikely they can cut ties or could be even called seperate organizations... PS: There aren't 30-40 million Kurdish people living Kurdistan, for example over 12 million Kurdish people out of Turkey's around 18 million Kurdish minority live in WESTERN Turkey not in Kurdistan. While the biggest Kurdish city in the world isn't Erbil, Sanadaj or Diyarbakır rather ISTANBUL with 3 million Kurdish population! They could at least research about populations properly but nope..
@@ggoddkkiller1342 lol it’s cute you paint the Turkish state that made the Kurdish language illegal for instruction and governance as protectors of their Kurdish minority.
Continued repression my ass. The wife of Erdoğan is Kurdish-descent, for more than 10 years the head of intelligence was a Kurdish-descent (now Foreign Secretary) On the other hand, do you know how many villagers, teachers, workers, children, public officials have been murdered by mines, ambushes, bombings, shootings, Molotov attacks, etc since 1984 by so called "freedom fighters of pkk"? Kurds as for many other people from different ethnic background have the same freedom in Türkiye as long as they don't arm themselves and run into the mountains to live like wild dogs only to drug themselves to blow up a remote observation post filled with army soldiers, police stations in the cities, busy main streets in the city center, etc. I truly hope that one day the same exact thing would pop up in the USA or in the West. I would then see how civilized and forgiving the US or Western people are towards the terrorists claiming fighting for freedom whilst burning forests (see how many terrorists have been apprehended before, during, after forest fires in Türkiye...) There are things that the manipulative Western media shows and there are truth. STFU if you know jack about a reality, going on for more than 40 years and claimed more than 40 fucking thousand peoples lives...
@@ggoddkkiller1342 PKK killed more Kurdish people in the area than any foreign power. Wake up guys. PKK pretty much cleaned out Kurdish villages with massacres which you can go and read about. Nothing but a bunch of baby killers.
@@a.g.5983You have done more for blacks than any other country. They never seem to be satisfied. Asia, east Europa and Middle East threat them like shit, east Asia have black population less than 1%. They kill country from inside. USA have now 50 million ! Blacks. And a lot other non American people. White is about 50% soon in their own country. When war start china, Russia and Iran and all Islamic countries against USA they will aleredy be losing by their on hostile populations. It was a big mistake to let them in 200 years ago. Today it’s the divided country of America
@@Romanized_QuranWell the thing is, Kurds almost never existed as a state besides small kingdoms. That's why their notable moments in history is rather lacking. Wikipedia tends to say Ayyubid Dynasty is Kurdish but it was rather an Arabic dynasty. Later replaced bu a Turkic dynasty as the Mamluks.(Although still having ruled with mostly Arab influence)
Hi Simon, great topic! And a fairly relevant one for me as an inhabitant of the Middle East I guess.. As per your suggestion in the video, I *am* very much interested in a more detailed ethnographic/historic survey of the Kurds. Cheers!
@@normanradd1909 The Aryans in the Middle East are immigrants coming from western Mongolia, Central Asia, and northern India, and they worshiped the dragon and the Nazi symbol, and they killed the indigenous people of Iran, who are Elam
@@عليياسر-ذ5ب u talking about turks. We have a history and place never smaller than the old iraq oh sorry iran puppet* and even though this video is about kurds why tf is an dirty arab commenting?
@@عليياسر-ذ5ب if you want to be so wrong and stupid at least get one thing right, literally any correct information would have been fine, but you went straight doe being stupid?! Definitely a choice
As a Kurd , thanks for your great video , Kurdistan Region of Iraq currently able to produce 500K barrels of oil per day and 500 Million standard cubic feet
For the sake of Kurdistan unity, Will you share your god given wealth to your Kurdish brother and sisters who where born in Iran, Turkey and Syria? Or you look down at them and keep being hostile to them as usual?
@@xeon39688 it isn't. it was shared between the Barzani boys and Erdogan. Salaries weren't paid when Baghdad stop sending funds because the KDP stopped sending them oil. And because the Barzanis approach everything like they're working on their fathers farm, all that money, billions of dollars, which they put in dodgy Turkish banks, are now denied to them by Erdogan after the French courts decision that the sales were illegal. So most of the oil money is now in Turkish hands, which is probably why the KDP are now the personal soldiers of Erdogan, attacking other Kurds fighting against Turkish fascists.
This was mostly neutral but there were still downplaying facts and some huge mistakes, for example PKK was so wickedly attacking civilians including even Kurdish civilians the second highest casualty in this conflict after terrorists themselves isn't Turkish army, police nor civilians at all rather it is actually KURDS, civilians and especially Kurdish village guards that PKK killed thousands of them! There are hundreds of villages in southeastern Turkey alone and because the region is extremely mountainous Turkish army couldn't protect all villages constantly and Kurdish villagers were becoming easy targets for PKK raids. As a solution the government trained and armed Kurdish civilians so they could defend themselves until the army arrived. I bet some people may think ''Kurdish'' PKK and Kurdish villagers didn't fight against each others but in reality it is terrorist PKK which was seizing their assests while calling it ''tax'' and even forcefully recruiting their children! So Kurdish village guards pretty much always fought against them even if they were greatly outnumbered, while PKK simply declared them as ''traitors'' and mercilessly killed thousands of them!! Especially in 90s their violence was out of control if a Kurdish intellectual could talk against PKK would be found dead in their homes. Suicide bombing attacks in public buses, squires, markets, stations, stadiums you name it and this is the reason why literally DOZENS of countries recognize PKK as a terrorist organization as they really are terrorists!! PKK isn't committing as many terrorist attacks as before doesn't prove they magically changed like some westerners claim. Rather it is mainly because they can not smuggle both arms and themselves through Turkish-Iraqi anymore because of constant surveillance by drones. In 90s the best Turkey could do was building border outposts along the mountanious border to literally watch the border with soldiers and several dozen soldiers in a mountain peak were often becoming a target themselves.. It is true KDP asked support from even saddam but they did that out of desperation, after years of infighting they were exhausted and with great Iranian support PUK was gaining upper hand. This was also the point PKK joined PUK alliance not after KDP asked support from Iraqi government, there is a timelapse for obvious reasons! It was also completely ignored after PUK territorial gains in 1997 Turkey invaded norhern Iraq with 60,000 soldiers as PKK alliance couldn't be allowed to win the civil war and gain huge support. Instead of the truth it is told like Barzani stopped the civil war by swinging his magical wand for obvious reasons. This Turkish intervention and ending the civil war in favour of KDP was also the reason why Turkey and Barzanis have been allies since then and 15 Turkish bases were built in KDP territories started from 1998 for training Peshmerga forces and providing security. It is also a completely a false Turkey blocked KRG's access to the world, in fact both Barzani and Talabani also many Iraqi Kurds have TURKISH diplomatic passports so they can travel through Turkey freely and ask for support from other nations. What more Turkey supposed to do than giving people diplomatic passports who aren't even Turkish citizens, huh?? Then they also completely ignored vast majority of KRG's trade travel through Turkey including 95% of their oil exports and this was the only reason KRG could survive so long. Then comes ''Turkey using PKK as an excuse to attack YPG'' nonsense, while in reality there are around TWO THOUSAND PKK terrorists in YPG's ranks, in fact even the commander of YPG is a ''former'' PKK terrorists called Mazloum Abdi! This isn't a secret or anything, just search his name you would see he is a known PKK terrorist, but no worries according to our ''trustworthy'' allies he retired being a terrorist and he is a democratic hero now!! Turkey will never ever accept this moronity, while the only way PKK terrorists can be declared innocent they will surrender and apologize to the people that they killed thousands of them. Until it happens Turkey will continue targeting them in every opportunity or YPG can cut it's ties with PKK, in fact Turkey actually asked it from US many times before starting operations against them which was ofc forgotten again! However with even it's commander being a PKK terrorist i guess it is extremely unlikely they can cut ties or could be even called seperate organizations... PS: There aren't 30-40 million Kurdish people living Kurdistan, for example over 12 million Kurdish people out of Turkey's around 18 million Kurdish minority live in WESTERN Turkey not in Kurdistan. While the biggest Kurdish city in the world isn't Erbil, Sanadaj or Diyarbakır rather ISTANBUL with 3 million Kurdish population! They could at least research about populations properly but nope! By the way even if im a Turkish person im fully support a Kurdish state they suffered a lot especially in Iraq and we would rather having a border with a Kurdish state than Iraqis. But a KURDISH state not a terrorist state, we will never ever support such a country and even fight against it's forces as long as those PKK terrorists are in charge..
@@slipslip9163 I can spam a million times if i want, it is none of your business! On the other hand you are free to quote those ''propaganda'' parts if you can actually manage ofc...
Talk about the kurdish teror organizaton pkk/ypg also. Theres nothing occupied. Kurds never had a state. How can a state that did never exist be occupied
I was there is Erbil, Suly all over in 2004-2005, they are hands down some of the most loyal, kind generous people on Earth! The US has crapped on them forever !
Please do a video on the Sykes Picot Agreement and the ramifications. Bonus points if you include notations of T. E. Lawrence and the formation of modern Isreal.
WTF was your father doing in Iraq in the first place? "Army" = bodyguards for politicians (thugs in suits) that want to steal peoples' sh*t. Oil in this example..
I'm an Egyptian and for us the kurdistan issue is agreat example for what the britsh and french done in the world they separated nations and disputed lands in the Middle East for their sakes Then they left the region fractured with alot of borders problems It's so sad that till now their is no justice in the world , just the jungle rules I hope one day kurds will have their country which is their right historically and culturally they are a nation and this is there land On other hand the western wouldn't help them cause they the resone from the beginning
This was mostly neutral but there were still downplaying facts and some huge mistakes, for example PKK was so wickedly attacking civilians including even Kurdish civilians the second highest casualty in this conflict after terrorists themselves isn't Turkish army, police nor civilians at all rather it is actually KURDS, civilians and especially Kurdish village guards that PKK killed thousands of them! There are hundreds of villages in southeastern Turkey alone and because the region is extremely mountainous Turkish army couldn't protect all villages constantly and Kurdish villagers were becoming easy targets for PKK raids. As a solution the government trained and armed Kurdish civilians so they could defend themselves until the army arrived. I bet some people may think ''Kurdish'' PKK and Kurdish villagers didn't fight against each others but in reality it is terrorist PKK which was seizing their assests while calling it ''tax'' and even forcefully recruiting their children! So Kurdish village guards pretty much always fought against them even if they were greatly outnumbered, while PKK simply declared them as ''traitors'' and mercilessly killed thousands of them!! Especially in 90s their violence was out of control if a Kurdish intellectual could talk against PKK would be found dead in their homes. Suicide bombing attacks in public buses, squires, markets, stations, stadiums you name it and this is the reason why literally DOZENS of countries recognize PKK as a terrorist organization as they really are terrorists!! PKK isn't committing as many terrorist attacks as before doesn't prove they magically changed like some westerners claim. Rather it is mainly because they can not smuggle both arms and themselves through Turkish-Iraqi anymore because of constant surveillance by drones. In 90s the best Turkey could do was building border outposts along the mountanious border to literally watch the border with soldiers and several dozen soldiers in a mountain peak were often becoming a target themselves.. It is true KDP asked support from even saddam but they did that out of desperation, after years of infighting they were exhausted and with great Iranian support PUK was gaining upper hand. This was also the point PKK joined PUK alliance not after KDP asked support from Iraqi government, there is a timelapse for obvious reasons! It was also completely ignored after PUK territorial gains in 1997 Turkey invaded norhern Iraq with 60,000 soldiers as PKK alliance couldn't be allowed to win the civil war and gain huge support. Instead of the truth it is told like Barzani stopped the civil war by swinging his magical wand for obvious reasons. This Turkish intervention and ending the civil war in favour of KDP was also the reason why Turkey and Barzanis have been allies since then and 15 Turkish bases were built in KDP territories started from 1998 for training Peshmerga forces and providing security. It is also a completely a false Turkey blocked KRG's access to the world, in fact both Barzani and Talabani also many Iraqi Kurds have TURKISH diplomatic passports so they can travel through Turkey freely and ask for support from other nations. What more Turkey supposed to do than giving people diplomatic passports who aren't even Turkish citizens, huh?? Then they also completely ignored vast majority of KRG's trade travel through Turkey including 95% of their oil exports and this was the only reason KRG could survive so long. Then comes ''Turkey using PKK as an excuse to attack YPG'' nonsense, while in reality there are around TWO THOUSAND PKK terrorists in YPG's ranks, in fact even the commander of YPG is a ''former'' PKK terrorists called Mazloum Abdi! This isn't a secret or anything, just search his name you would see he is a known PKK terrorist, but no worries according to our ''trustworthy'' allies he retired being a terrorist and he is a democratic hero now!! Turkey will never ever accept this moronity, while the only way PKK terrorists can be declared innocent they will surrender and apologize to the people that they killed thousands of them. Until it happens Turkey will continue targeting them in every opportunity or YPG can cut it's ties with PKK, in fact Turkey actually asked it from US many times before starting operations against them which was ofc forgotten again! However with even it's commander being a PKK terrorist i guess it is extremely unlikely they can cut ties or could be even called seperate organizations... PS: There aren't 30-40 million Kurdish people living Kurdistan, for example over 12 million Kurdish people out of Turkey's around 18 million Kurdish minority live in WESTERN Turkey not in Kurdistan. While the biggest Kurdish city in the world isn't Erbil, Sanadaj or Diyarbakır rather ISTANBUL with 3 million Kurdish population! They could at least research about populations properly but nope! By the way even if im a Turkish person im fully supporting a Kurdish state they suffered a lot especially in Iraq and we would rather having a border with a Kurdish state than Iraqis or Syrians. But a KURDISH state not a terrorist state, we will never ever support such a country and even fight against it's forces as long as those PKK terrorists are in charge..
As a Kurdish nationalist I can say the biggest mistake our people made they think America and west are our enemies but they should realize they are our friends and they are ready to help us to have our own country. I hope one day our people will understand we can’t do it without west’s and America’s help.
As a Kurdish im very proud of this video, thanks very much for mentioning us! However I know my people fought hard in past but if just they knew how corrupt the government will be after saddam i swear no body would fight for the cause
@zhingull5792 indeed why don't help the people and improve the youth while the youths are every country's treasure! The problem from the start those were not people of responsibility but rather just some business men got helped my us while saddam cracked they identifyed themselves as the the heros Like I can write down for you billion of words yet that is not enough... We are a small nation with a lot of resources like oil we should be rich as like qatar ... But no that didn't happen! This government's produce is only slave people... Unfortunately 💔
@alibaba-wl8jb Aww, bless your heart. It must be exhausting to be so wrong all the time. But hey, keep spreading your baseless conspiracy theories. It's a good reminder that ignorance truly knows no bounds.
A large portion of my deployment to Iraq in 2008-2009 was at or near Mt Sinjar. The people in that region were the nicest, most humble humans I’ve ever met. I’m ashamed my nation left the to the wolves of the region as the did.
Don't be ashamed of what your nation did be ashamed of Turkey and how they have been the dominant country that has their bootheel on the very idea of their ever existing and independent Kurdish Nation Turkey regularly abuses its position in NATO to ensure that there can never be an independent Kurdistan
@@rejvaik00 turkey could easily bring stability to the region and be a powerhouse once again, but they’d rather deal in ideological radicalism. The entire middle east fails to realize if Kurdistan were given autonomy, the world jihadist population would drop, Kurds don’t take kindly to these extremists
Stop blaming Turks for the wars in the Middle East you hypocrites! The wars were in Europe when Turks ruled in the Middle East! It was the British who drew the recent borders of our time not the Turks! They arranged it so well that it would be difficult for us to unite again because they are very well aware of us sending them back where they came from when we unite! How arrogant of you to blame Turkiye for destabilizing its own borders! Do you fcking say a war in the Middle East will help Turkiye prosper? Turkish economy would have been a lot better if there was peace not war! Sooner or later we will unite once all the colonial powers are cleansed from the vicinity. The real traitors are those who want to divide. Even the stupid small fish know how to defend themselves against large predators! They come together and pretend to be large even though they are not!
@@rejvaik00What exactly did you Except of turkey when some minor militias tries to divide it? Ofc turkey will take action and crush its rebelles. I do not think there is a shame in it.
@@rejvaik00 If you wouldn't form a terrorist organization in Turkish land, we may help you accomplish your goals. Even this Turkish hater channel couldn't defend you without recognizing how horrible your actions were. But after all that Turkey is the most peaceful place you could ever live in the region. You carry the same ID card as I do. But you would rather bite the hand that would rescue you from Chemical Ali. What goes around comes around. Let's face it Turkey will never let you form the terrorist nation that you would dream of. Also, I don't understand why this channel wouldn't call PKK what it is, a terrorist organization that is responsible for almost 50% of the organized crime in Europe. That so-called young intellectual had 5 billion US dollars in his personal account in Switzerland. Most of that was sourced from heroin and human trade.
Thank you for the beautiful video. Thank you thank you so much. I am My Kurdish. I am so proud of myself for the beautiful video thank you so much. I am a Kurdish. I miss Kurdistan but I'm in Canada 🇨🇦 No, I watch this video. I didn’t much appreciate it because you reminded me of back home. No, I watched this video I'm so happy thanks.😊
Instead of marching for support of terrorist state of Palestine, a nation born from nowhere relatively recently, people should stand up for real nation without country that has been living on their native land for centuries, the Kurds, oppressed by other countries, kingdoms, empires. People are too blind to see it, they're obsessed with blaming Israel. So corrected call Free, Free Kurdistan!
When you're going down the youtube rabbit hole, thinking you've finally escaped Simon, TH-cam recommends a new Simon channel you've never even heard of. Can't lie, I just laughed out loud when I saw Simon pop on my screen
What sucks is, they will be landlocked. What if they need stuff like oil shipped from other countries? They'd have to get permission to access the ocean from the neighboring countries, the ones they fought against.
yeaah! let's establish a country based on impulsive emotions after a youtube video brainwash without knowing the reality of the region!!! You must be a genius!! and yes let's give them an access to ocean as well even there is no god damn ocean in the region!
B) Mistakes: 1) You said Kurdistan was divided between four countries AFTER WW I. This is false. Western borders of Iran were largely settled in 1639 with the Treaty of Zuhab and only a few largely minor changes were made later. While before that, most of Kurdistan was part of Iran with those regions only being lost after Ottomans defeated Iran (back then known as Persia in the west) in the Battle of Chaldiran. 2) Unlike what you mentioned here, the Kurdish movements didn't began after World War II, there was a Kingdom of Kurdistan established in 1921 in the region of Sulaymaniyah, Iraq, which lasted until 1925 and then there was the Republic of Ararat (1927-1931) and the Dersim rebellion of late 30s in Turkey. There was also an autonomous region for Kurds of Karabakh called Kurdistan uezd (Red Kurdistan) as part of the USSR that lasted from 1923 to 1929 before being absorbed into Azerbaijani SSR. Of course there were also rebellions in late 1800s and during WW I but it seems to me that they were more tribal in nature. 3) Minor mistakes: 6:07 This is the flag of the Islamic republic, wrong flag for Iran of 1946. 15:12 Wrong flag for 1980s Iraq, this was only adopted in 2008. 15:47 I think this is the picture of modern Iraqi military, their uniforms look similar to the Americans. Finally, the name of the leader of the PKK should be pronounced like Ojalan not Okalan, c in Turkish alphabate and the latin Kurmanji Kurdish alphabet is pronounced like J in English.
My question is whether the Kurds are nomads from Central-Asia (Turkish, Hunnish, Alanni, and Sarmatian like tribes) that migrated into the debatable borderlands of the late Roman Empire and Sassanid Persia or are they more related to the Perso-Armenians who were an in between group of people both related to the Ancient Armenians and the Medes of Persia?
The Kurds are the indigenous population of Mesopotamia and the heritage of many peoples and dynasties that originated or settled there. Their history is 4000 years old and were already mentioned by the Sumerians. They are mostly descended from Mittani, Gutis, Hurrians and Iranian nomads peoples of western Iran. They are not nomads, there are some few tribes who were or still are nomads.
Kurds are one of the Iranic groups genetically, culturally, and linguistically like Persians, Scythians, Pashtuns, etc. They are mostly related to Medes but there were many migrations. For example, the Parthians who ruled Iran were Scythians and today both Persian and Kurdish are coming from Middle Persian which is Parthian but Persian still has Persian substrum and Kurdish has Median substrum. They both mixed with Scythians as well. And yes, nomadic culture is a way of life for all the Iranic people but many of them started to be settled during the Ancient times and some of them continue this culture. Until the late 1800s, Kurds were classified as semi-nomads but many of them were settled since Ancient times too.
Bir Kürt olarak anlarım bizim tarihimiz 5 bin yıl önce dayanıyor ve bütün dünya biliyor ki Osmanlı yıkılınca kürtlerin devleti kürdistanımız 4 e böldüler ingilizler ve abd şua kürtler 4 ülkede yaşıyorlar sayımız şuan belli değil ama resmi dayanaklar 80 milyon varız sadece resmi daha çoğuz ki bir devletimiz bile şuan yok Türkiye İran ırak ve Suriye 4 e böldüler 😔😔
@@omerfarukozyap9475is that all guys say? I don’t agree with the violence of the other guy that responded to you but why are you so bent to stop the prosperity of an entire ethnicity. (One that is more legit than yours I will add)
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Awesome video thank you but some minor points. It’s important to note that Kurds were the only people that did not leave the Ottoman Empire while Arabs left for their newly formed nations and Turks later also chose nationalism. This left the Kurds with the “caliphate” mentality left. They actually rebelled several times against the idea of a “new modern secular turkey” with the likes of Sheikh Said and his rebellion. The kurds also much earlier fought the English and also formed small kingdoms like sheik Mahmoud and his kingdom in Slemani. With this I mean that the Kurds didint want the division of the caliphate (ottoman) and they didint accept the devision of sevres treaty. With that said the Kurds have nothing left to trust or cooperate with the treaterous Turk and Arabs.
Its amazing my grandparents could raise the whole village im live in at a time where living was a challenge but iraqi troops killed him because he was kurdish I can imagine how great thay was
This was mostly neutral but there were still downplaying facts and some huge mistakes, for example PKK was so wickedly attacking civilians including even Kurdish civilians the second highest casualty in this conflict after terrorists themselves isn't Turkish army, police nor civilians at all rather it is actually KURDS, civilians and especially Kurdish village guards that PKK killed thousands of them! There are hundreds of villages in southeastern Turkey alone and because the region is extremely mountainous Turkish army couldn't protect all villages constantly and Kurdish villagers were becoming easy targets for PKK raids. As a solution the government trained and armed Kurdish civilians so they could defend themselves until the army arrived. I bet some people may think ''Kurdish'' PKK and Kurdish villagers didn't fight against each others but in reality it is terrorist PKK which was seizing their assests while calling it ''tax'' and even forcefully recruiting their children! So Kurdish village guards pretty much always fought against them even if they were greatly outnumbered, while PKK simply declared them as ''traitors'' and mercilessly killed thousands of them!! Especially in 90s their violence was out of control if a Kurdish intellectual could talk against PKK would be found dead in their homes. Suicide bombing attacks in public buses, squires, markets, stations, stadiums you name it and this is the reason why literally DOZENS of countries recognize PKK as a terrorist organization as they really are terrorists!! PKK isn't committing as many terrorist attacks as before doesn't prove they magically changed like some westerners claim. Rather it is mainly because they can not smuggle both arms and themselves through Turkish-Iraqi anymore because of constant surveillance by drones. In 90s the best Turkey could do was building border outposts along the mountanious border to literally watch the border with soldiers and several dozen soldiers in a mountain peak were often becoming a target themselves.. It is true KDP asked support from even saddam but they did that out of desperation, after years of infighting they were exhausted and with great Iranian support PUK was gaining upper hand. This was also the point PKK joined PUK alliance not after KDP asked support from Iraqi government, there is a timelapse for obvious reasons! It was also completely ignored after PUK territorial gains in 1997 Turkey invaded norhern Iraq with 60,000 soldiers as PKK alliance couldn't be allowed to win the civil war and gain huge support. Instead of the truth it is told like Barzani stopped the civil war by swinging his magical wand for obvious reasons. This Turkish intervention and ending the civil war in favour of KDP was also the reason why Turkey and Barzanis have been allies since then and 15 Turkish bases were built in KDP territories started from 1998 for training Peshmerga forces and providing security. It is also a completely a false Turkey blocked KRG's access to the world, in fact both Barzani and Talabani also many Iraqi Kurds have TURKISH diplomatic passports so they can travel through Turkey freely and ask for support from other nations. What more Turkey supposed to do than giving people diplomatic passports who aren't even Turkish citizens, huh?? Then they also completely ignored vast majority of KRG's trade travel through Turkey including 95% of their oil exports and this was the only reason KRG could survive so long. Then comes ''Turkey using PKK as an excuse to attack YPG'' nonsense, while in reality there are around TWO THOUSAND PKK terrorists in YPG's ranks, in fact even the commander of YPG is a ''former'' PKK terrorists called Mazloum Abdi! This isn't a secret or anything, just search his name you would see he is a known PKK terrorist, but no worries according to our ''trustworthy'' allies he retired being a terrorist and he is a democratic hero now!! Turkey will never ever accept this moronity, while the only way PKK terrorists can be declared innocent they will surrender and apologize to the people that they killed thousands of them. Until it happens Turkey will continue targeting them in every opportunity or YPG can cut it's ties with PKK, in fact Turkey actually asked it from US many times before starting operations against them which was ofc forgotten again! However with even it's commander being a PKK terrorist i guess it is extremely unlikely they can cut ties or could be even called seperate organizations... PS: There aren't 30-40 million Kurdish people living Kurdistan, for example over 12 million Kurdish people out of Turkey's around 18 million Kurdish minority live in WESTERN Turkey not in Kurdistan. While the biggest Kurdish city in the world isn't Erbil, Sanadaj or Diyarbakır rather ISTANBUL with 3 million Kurdish population! They could at least research about populations properly but nope! By the way even if im a Turkish person im fully supporting a Kurdish state they suffered a lot especially in Iraq and we would rather having a border with a Kurdish state than Iraqis or Syrians. But a KURDISH state not a terrorist state, we will never ever support such a country and even fight against it's forces as long as those PKK terrorists are in charge..
Algeria in 2001, and ten years later it became a constitutionally official language in Morocco. These developments have extended the use of Berber to the public domain (e.g., some schools, media outlets, and magazines). Nonetheless, when a Moroccan Arab and a Moroccan Berber meet, the customarily medium of com munication would be Moroccan Arabic possibly because Berber speakers also command Moroccan Arabic and not the opposite. Kurdish is another language that competes for space in the Arabic socio linguistic scene. Kurdish is not a single language, but several languages that are spoken by diverse speech communities spread over areas in southeastern Turkey, western Iran, northern Iraq, northeastern Syria, and smaller parts of Geor gia and Armenia.20 The existence of the Kurdish people in the north parts of the Arab Middle East predates the existence of Arabs in this region (McDowall, 2004; Vali, 2003). Kurdish languages are not mutually intelligible, although they often share a wide range of linguistic properties (Hassanpour, 2012; McDowall, 2004; Meho & Maglaughlin, 2001; Vali, 2003). Within the Arab context, Kurdish is spoken mainly in northern Iraq and in small parts in northern Syria. Like Ber ber, Kurdish had conventionally been a spoken language (McDowall, 2004; Vali, 2003). Since 2003, however, Kurdish has become an official language in Iraq, and henceforward, it came to be used in administration, schools and universities, media, and print. With the current conflict in Syria, the Kurds may replicate the Iraq experience in terms of making Kurdish an official language within a pro spective autonomous state. Outside the Kurd-dominated areas, however, Kurdish has often had meager presence and influence compared to the Syrian and Iraqi dialects (O'Shea, 2004; Sheyholislami, 2008). However, the situation is changing, particularly in the Iraqi context. While the presence of Berber and Kurdish is confined to certain parts of the Arab World, English and, to a lesser extent, French are two global languages whose influence is felt in various parts of the Arabic sociolinguistic arena.
This was mostly neutral but there were still downplaying facts and some huge mistakes, for example PKK was so wickedly attacking civilians including even Kurdish civilians the second highest casualty in this conflict after terrorists themselves isn't Turkish army, police nor civilians at all rather it is actually KURDS, civilians and especially Kurdish village guards that PKK killed thousands of them! There are hundreds of villages in southeastern Turkey alone and because the region is extremely mountainous Turkish army couldn't protect all villages constantly and Kurdish villagers were becoming easy targets for PKK raids. As a solution the government trained and armed Kurdish civilians so they could defend themselves until the army arrived. I bet some people may think ''Kurdish'' PKK and Kurdish villagers didn't fight against each others but in reality it is terrorist PKK which was seizing their assests while calling it ''tax'' and even forcefully recruiting their children! So Kurdish village guards pretty much always fought against them even if they were greatly outnumbered, while PKK simply declared them as ''traitors'' and mercilessly killed thousands of them!! Especially in 90s their violence was out of control if a Kurdish intellectual could talk against PKK would be found dead in their homes. Suicide bombing attacks in public buses, squires, markets, stations, stadiums you name it and this is the reason why literally DOZENS of countries recognize PKK as a terrorist organization as they really are terrorists!! PKK isn't committing as many terrorist attacks as before doesn't prove they magically changed like some westerners claim. Rather it is mainly because they can not smuggle both arms and themselves through Turkish-Iraqi anymore because of constant surveillance by drones. In 90s the best Turkey could do was building border outposts along the mountanious border to literally watch the border with soldiers and several dozen soldiers in a mountain peak were often becoming a target themselves.. It is true KDP asked support from even saddam but they did that out of desperation, after years of infighting they were exhausted and with great Iranian support PUK was gaining upper hand. This was also the point PKK joined PUK alliance not after KDP asked support from Iraqi government, there is a timelapse for obvious reasons! It was also completely ignored after PUK territorial gains in 1997 Turkey invaded norhern Iraq with 60,000 soldiers as PKK alliance couldn't be allowed to win the civil war and gain huge support. Instead of the truth it is told like Barzani stopped the civil war by swinging his magical wand for obvious reasons. This Turkish intervention and ending the civil war in favour of KDP was also the reason why Turkey and Barzanis have been allies since then and 15 Turkish bases were built in KDP territories started from 1998 for training Peshmerga forces and providing security. It is also a completely a false Turkey blocked KRG's access to the world, in fact both Barzani and Talabani also many Iraqi Kurds have TURKISH diplomatic passports so they can travel through Turkey freely and ask for support from other nations. What more Turkey supposed to do than giving people diplomatic passports who aren't even Turkish citizens, huh?? Then they also completely ignored vast majority of KRG's trade travel through Turkey including 95% of their oil exports and this was the only reason KRG could survive so long. Then comes ''Turkey using PKK as an excuse to attack YPG'' nonsense, while in reality there are around TWO THOUSAND PKK terrorists in YPG's ranks, in fact even the commander of YPG is a ''former'' PKK terrorists called Mazloum Abdi! This isn't a secret or anything, just search his name you would see he is a known PKK terrorist, but no worries according to our ''trustworthy'' allies he retired being a terrorist and he is a democratic hero now!! Turkey will never ever accept this moronity, while the only way PKK terrorists can be declared innocent they will surrender and apologize to the people that they killed thousands of them. Until it happens Turkey will continue targeting them in every opportunity or YPG can cut it's ties with PKK, in fact Turkey actually asked it from US many times before starting operations against them which was ofc forgotten again! However with even it's commander being a PKK terrorist i guess it is extremely unlikely they can cut ties or could be even called seperate organizations... PS: There aren't 30-40 million Kurdish people living Kurdistan, for example over 12 million Kurdish people out of Turkey's around 18 million Kurdish minority live in WESTERN Turkey not in Kurdistan. While the biggest Kurdish city in the world isn't Erbil, Sanadaj or Diyarbakır rather ISTANBUL with 3 million Kurdish population! They could at least research about populations properly but nope..
Im a kurd and even though we were just being brutally treated, we didnt help ourselved for being and having very politically naive leaders and parties who didnt know how to play the game, that could have saved thousands of lives... They scored too many own goals for being frankly either just stupid or very clingy to power
@@bijikurdistanss He didn't compare it "with others" he literally only talked about Kurdish leaders being dimwitted and shortsighted. They're always 50 years behind the global order. Never prepared, never united.
@namisieiieiriioiddio who is mehmed? No salahuddin didn't play the nationalism card. However, there are over 20 arab countries in which Islam is against nationalism. But what's your point? Shouldn't kurds have a nation?
I was in Syria 2017. The Kurds where and still are one of the most humble people I’ve ever met. They are kind, generous, and very resourceful. They also fight like dogs backed in a corner. They brought light to the ignorance that I had for the people who follow Islam. I left with a whole new understanding of the people and cultures of the Middle East. I hope one day they can have a land of their own.
The land we think we own isn’t ours to keep but it will surely keep our bones someday.
Thank you for your kind words. All the peoples of Mediterranean have similar characteristics. We are warm and friendly even with strangers. We are familiar with different faces and their customs. We are familiar with many religions and languages. We have witnessed many empires rise and fall. Our soils are fertile with the blood of the mighty warriors from every corner of the world.
We don’t need a piece of land. We need peace and prosperity for everyone which is so easy to fulfill only with the money and effort spend on wars. Don’t promise us a place in heaven please. Let’s build the heaven on earth together.
@@nostaljiturkce
Turk spotted
Like in Your backyard maybe
@@nostaljiturkce „I’m Kurdish..“ 👨🏿💻🇹🇷
@@nostaljiturkce stop pretending to be kurd 😂 fascist turk
From an outsider's perspective, there's very little not to like about the Kurdish people. They work hard, mind their own business when they can, and fight like hell when they have to. I don't think anyone really knows what their future holds, but I hope whatever happens, it leads to a more prosperous and peaceful future. They deserve as much, at the very least
Nailed it. Great people who have, historically, always drawn the short straw
Ok but decades of bombing turkey kinda stops that train of thought real quick lol
Their use of child soldiers is despicable. Kurds are monsters for using them.
And then the Turks arrived
They are the most islamic people in turkey. They are very conservative. They genocided the Christian assyrians.
I'm from Egypt and I love the Kurds, most humble people I met during my visit to Iraq. I hope they get their state. Har bji
Thank you bro from a fellow kurdish
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Thank
Her biji bira🔥❤️
Thank you
As a Kurd I believe you should have given more detail on anfal and how inhumanly brutal it was, I don't think it's talked about enough. It's extremely difficult for me to hear or see any pictures of it but I think the world needs to know for the sake of humanity and all the victims.
Anfal was a barzani mossad collaboration, don’t ever get it wrong. I’m Kurdish too I was not too far from the place
@@The.Alchemist-d2vSo arabs have a right to kill 200,000 innocent people cuz their leader had a collaboration with the only democrat in the middle east?
@@The.Alchemist-d2v do not spread misinformation, jash.
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barzani family is a threat to kurdish independence. The only kurdish leaders that should be looked up to and should be idolized are Salahuddin and Qazi Muhammad.
Thanks very much for your informations about great Kurdish people, which liev tausends of years in the same area.
Salut from Switzerland with mounten and without see as Kürdistan.
Kurdistan and Kurds are upper Mesopotamia endogenous people , close tie with Sumerian , Aryan and hurricane , pity after WW1 colonialism divided Kurdistan over newly made fake countries like Turkey , Iran , Iraq and Syria , mistake or crime done by English and French last century need to be corrected now , it’s 21 century everyone has to be free for self determination so as Kurds
I’m from Mexico and even tho my country doesn’t have any reason to be involved with the Kurdistan problem but I still have nothing but respect for all the Kurdish people. I don’t know why other powers just couldn’t be fine with a Kurdish state
We don't know neither, kurds have 50-60 millions population in this region. But 4 states are fascist against us
@@lavieenconfinement3511 yeah It’s just stupid cuz I’ve met a couple Kurds and they are nothing but humble and very friendly people I’ve met from that region of the world it feels like. I honestly rly hope they will one day find independence
@@Chorizero2369 we have a sad history, we have been and divided into 2 empires. So Ottoman Empire and Saffavid empire (persian) used kurds to kill each other. Every kurd can speak at least 2-3 language in the region. Other nations cans only speak one language. Kurdish people are the most democratic and equal people between men and women. Our kurdish women fought against Daesh dogs. My aunt she herself fought for our freedom. May her soul rest in peace.
The title deeds of the Armenian province are available in the Ottoman state archives. Today, the heir of the Ottoman Empire, the Republic of Turkey, has the authority to hand over the Armenian province to the Armenians again when the time comes. The peaceful repatriation of the nomadic Kurds, who colonized historical Armenia, to Mesopotamia and Iran is within the authority of the Republic of Turkey. Israel is a good example
You don't understand why countrys wouldn't just give away land?
As a Kurd its quite painful to listen to the long string of failures and inability to establish a free country.
Tbf put any other group of people in between those states and they wouldn’t win either. Iran has almost always had a great military and so has Turkey and those are just 2/4
Siding with outside powers doesn't help
@@skp8748 To many Kurds everyone they deal with is an outside power. What’s the difference between meeting a leader in Istanbul and joining with them in an alliance vs London to them?
Both of them are foreigners that don’t care about them but atleast the London guns shoot better.
@@skp8748To the Kurds, the Arabs are also outsiders. Makes it worse when Arabs tried to genocide them after the Iran-Iraq War.
They have no reason to side with their "countrymen" who merely treat them as troublemakers or lesser citizens, compared to outsiders who at least are giving them some sort of a helping hand.
As a US citizen it is quite painful that we have not given the Kurdish nation the support it deserves. It was my hope that the actions of the Peshmerga & other units against ISIS would galvanize more overt support...but geopolitics have screwed the Kurds at every turn.
I was stationed in Kirkuk in 2009. The Kurdish People were so good to us. Hopefully this video will help share their story
Yeah it’s too bad Barzani tried to push the independence referendum in 2017, and then central gov in Iraq took back Kirkuk - and all of it’s massive oil revenue. Kurdish control lasted 2014-2017. 2014 was when the Kurds liberated Kirkuk from ISIS.
I was deployed to the Kirkuk area in 06 and 07 at FOB Mchenry. Worked side by side with the Peshmerga and felt super safe with them. They don’t mess around when it comes to warfare. All the Kurdish people I ever had the pleasure of meeting were always kind and friendly. But a lot of the people I had met in my time on that deployment were nice and kind people. It’s just a different culture and way of life that some people lose sight on.
Kirkuk is türkmen city
@@mrb7057i dont see referendum as wrong thing, i voted for yes i saw it as our basic right.
And before i vote for Yes i questioned me should i vote for yes? I came to result why in middle east they made some very small countries for some tribes but why freedom for 50 million kurdish with their own language and culture is wrong thing ?
@@ferquentenrique8373
I dont know where were turkmen when saddam hussain regime was ruling? We never heard any turkmen to say kirkuk is turkmen city, cause he could kill all of you in one single hour.
Once kurdistan government had been formed they recognized all of small nations and religions in kurdistan cause they said we faced lots of genocide we dont want minorities to feel same as we felt, even turkey said there is no turkmen in this world at beginning. until lately they use you as pawn of game, when every thing come to peace turkemn raise n said kirkuk is turkmen city,
The question is that what will turkmen do if another Saddam Hussein rise in iraq? Will you still say same thing ?
I have some friends and family that fought in Iraq with the help of Kurdish fighters. They all have high praise for the Kurdish people.
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Kurdistan and Kurds are upper Mesopotamia endogenous people , close tie with Sumerian , Aryan and hurricane , pity after WW1 colonialism divided Kurdistan over newly made fake countries like Turkey , Iran , Iraq and Syria , mistake or crime done by English and French last century need to be corrected now , it’s 21 century everyone has to be free for self determination so as Kurds
I'm Iranian and I love Kurds, I love their culture and their language! I believe Kurdistan has enough cultural and geographical unity to turn into a country. they are lovely people ,I have had classmates from Kermanshah, he was one of my best friends during mid-school. Also I strongly believe that Middle East before British colonisation have had open boarders in between ethnicities, there were no clear boarder, there were Turkish and Persian and Arabic cities who decided to protect certain geographical regions ,but never like after what the world has become after World War Two. I think the strong boarder ownerships began in Middle East region with the British, where they sow regions as belongings and wealth , you can ask any Arab ,Kurd, Turkish, Armenian ,Persian you know and they will agree, there were no boarder ownership in entire Middle East and because of that ethnicities rarely fought and if they did there usually was a conflict between sultans that forced them to join X or Y army.
Kurds just like all other ethnicities in Middle East have a large population, they are the decedents of the Ancient Medes & Hattush (Hitties). so we know that they have had their own historical eras at some point.
There always been good relations between Kurds and their neighbours up untill saddam and all other dictators who emerged after him in the region that is why it is important to keep in mind as any included/neighbouring people to Kurdistan that it would be a different relation between us if we went to war against Kurds than peacefully accepting their demand, remember these boarders we have today? they were not the boarders we decided to have, if the problem will solve with separation of Kurdistan so let it be so, we have a stronger bound in between us. I rather this friendship between us and Kurds because they are great people than destroying it because of greed and pride, I would hate it if I know one day people in my country and people in Kurdistan would have a slightest hate towards each other that was the product of a war that happened between our people. that has more value to us than having different shape on a worthless political map, remember we are human at the first place, and to be realistic about nationality, there is only one country we should all worry about and that is the Earth itself.
Bro Iranian And Kurd Is Brother The Same
I agree, there were no borders. I'm from Kurdistan of Iraq, but half of my relatives live in Kurdistan of Iran which shows that people used to move freely without borders getting in the way. All the Kurds on the border cities have relatives in other parts of Kurdistan.
Lots of love to you, humans. I hope you will be able to solve the mess my european ancestors donated you.
Persians & kurds should make a strong super state, with area from Iraq + Turkey plus beyond. Even Azerbajdzjan & Armenia.
The future is unity, not wars.
This is very narrow thinking woke argument with modern colonialism of the brittish. Just to go back a little bit, The ottomans suppresed and took down arab nationalism, kurdish nationalism, Assyrians, jews, armenian with many more ethniticies. The muslims conqueror in history suppresed all non beliver until they either converted or had to become second citizens and pay tax (only people from the book) the rest they killed or had to convert - indigenous Arabian polytheism, ancient Semitic religions, Christianity, Judaism, Mandaeism, Hinduism and Zoroastrianism etc. It was not peace with kurds before Saddam.
I hope one day that the kurds will get a land, and all of them move away from Europe, North America etc and fill that land with knowledge and democracy, you are smart people!
I think the Kurds deserve better than the card they’ve been dealt from your analysis. I hope the Kurd factions can put aside their differences and work together for independence
I hope the US will finally realize the Kurds are the second most reliable ally in the area, second only to Israel, and support them as such.
@@rogerjohnson2562 Turks always killed Kurds and organized many massacres. Kurds have woken up now, long live Kurdistan. HER BİJİ KURDİSTAN 💚☀️❤️
What independence? Independence with stolen land?
@@rogerjohnson2562 what a clown comment. Easy to say when it’s not your own land isn’t it?
@@TwentyZZ24 does land belong to someone who manages to establish an internationally wide recognized state or does it belong to people who are indeginous to this land? Most countries that have been established, e.g. Germany, France, Russia, etc., were made by people who are indeginous to that land. Turkey, USA, Israel however, are states established by people, who settled/colonized indeginous land. This being said, there is a vast majority of people criticising states of people who arent indeginous to that land, rather than those states which are of the indeginous. Because of that, land belongs to people who are indeginous to it, so yes, the land of the kurds, that turkey, iraq and iran took unjustly in the treaty of ankara and the treaty of lausanne BELONGS TO THE KURDISH PEOPLE.
One nation, one independent state. Free Kurdistan!
What we need as Kurds:
1: Air Force.
2: an influential leader who can show our people that we can put our cultural differences to the side and stand together whether in Syria, Iraq, Iran, or Turkey.
The money and western support is there for it. As the largest ethnic minority in the world without a country, it’s a slap in the face by the international community that more has not been done for us.
and counter attack defence drones etc
*No* *No* *NO!* you need negotiation, there is no need for war, don't make yourselves look like rebels and terrorist by going to war with 4 biggest countries on Middle East. you already have a big population and united geography, there is no need to die, I honestly would advice you to look at this with bigger scope, you Kurds have respect in the region ,specially in Iran and Iraq, you could spend 10 years of negotiation and manage to create your own nation, or go to war with those countries for again 10 years, loose millions of people and most likely not create Kurdistan. it's the only reality, accept it and you will have a bright future, you will have Kurdistan, Inshallah, just act smart. Kurds are not loose criminals like ISIS in between boarders, so don't make yourselves look like them, don't label yourselves with ugly words such as _Terrorists_ because you are not! you are a nation! you are a ethnicity! make sure you peacefully work towards it, it might take 20 years, but it will be well worth it. trust me, I spend 20 years study history and culture, I learned this, this is the only recipe for Kurdistan, remember Armenian genocide! turkey have had 20% Armenian population during the ottoman era, they wanted to separate and 60% of them were murdered! this could be the reality of Kurdistan if there would be a war in the region, *Don't let them threat you as rebels* can you imagine 60 million of Kurds turn to 30 millions scattered between 4 countries, that would not even be big enough to try a second time. Act smart, I support Kurdistan, love from Iran
@@Keyhan-c8cHere is the leader, the great unifier of the Kurxa
You can’t acknowledge in the same comment that the west will have your back, while also claiming that you get no international support lol. That makes no sense
What you need is not attacking the Federal German police at your rallies, every time with serious injuries at the police. German police should adapt Israeli procedures, to tell them how them to behave.
Free kurdistan🦁🦅
You forgot to mention that British Air force bombing the kurdish villages and resistance with Iraqian army from 1921 to 1958 and destroyed hundreds of villages because Iraq was created by Britain after first World War. My grand father fought against British when Britain occupied kurdistan after WW1 with his 300 fighters, and one day when the british army attacked his region, called shameran he shot down a British fighter plane. My grand father name was Muhammad san Ahmed. Respect for your video
Well, Churchill did test Britain's first chemical gas bombs on Kurdish villagers hiding within caves. The point with Kurdistan that everyone can take from the activities conducted against the Kurds is that Kurdistan exists as a lawless paradise for external powers to commit crimes with impunity.
Still lost. And you keep losing. Kurds will never have their own state 😁
@@arwing20 Expand on that a little more.
What did they lose?
What are they keeping on loosing?
Why can't they have their state, what's your argument for that?
Come on, show us how smart you are.
Any smart person knows that unity means peace, prosperity and power to defend yourself.
The real traitors are those who want to be divided. They are so brainwashed with their ethnicity and the lie of fake freedom that they don’t even realize they are putting themselves in great danger because the predator’s tactic is divide and conquer. The history is full of examples with this.
The nature is full of examples with this. Every predator attacks the weaker member. Lions, wolves, etc. first create a diversion and divide the tribe so that they can get what they want!
Even small stupid fish know how to defend themselves against large predators. They come together and pretend to be large even though they are not.
Besides why side with foreigners who are only interested in our natural resources rather than work with our neighbors with whom we are sharing the land together for 1000s of years?
Neither the Kurds nor the Turks who live in Turkiye want to divide. On the contrary, we want to unite all the nations in and around our lands so that we can bring peace and prosperity back.
The history writes it was the British who drew the recent borders in the Middle East. They had divided our lands so that it will be difficult for us to unite again. Because they are well aware of us sending them back where they came from when we are united. They even planted a puppet government Israel right in the middle of Islamic states just to cause more conflict in the area.
Wasn’t it more peaceful before the Brits? Didn’t we live in peace and prosper together for hundreds of years?
Stop blaming Turks for the wars happening in the Middle East! The wars were in Europe when Turks ruled in the Middle East!
Don’t be a fool my dear neighbor, my brother, my sister!
“Sürüden ayrılanı kurt kapar!”
@@arwing20the most childish comment
Thank you Simon for telling a story about us, all Kurds appreciate it when someone from the outside acknowledges us.
I lived in the Erbil area for summer 2014-2016. The Kurds are good people.
If you love them so much, you can give them some territory from your country, so they can establish Kurdistan there and not steal lands from other countries. Win-Win
@@Alierturk7ignore this guy he’s been saying this on every comment. He’s just hateful and has no life.
@@Alierturk7Yeah the US should conquer Turkey make it to a US state and give the East to the Kurds💀
@@kral16643 US can’t even conquer Vietnam and Afghanistan, man. How are they gonna conquer 100 million populated Turkey? 😂 They’re all gay in US. They can’t fight like a man 😂😂
Good to western visitors,bad to each other
Free Kurdistan
Free my ass 😂
When I was in Iraq, during the US backed first election since the 1950s, there were seats in Iraqi parliament set aside for Kurdish leaders. They were in control of a large portion of Northern Iraq that US forces called Kurdistan and when our troops went there to visit the dam and even swim in the reservoir were able to walk around the Kurdish villages without their body armor and weapons. I was unable to go on the mission, though, so this is coming from my little brother and his rifle squad members (we were squad leaders together for ten out the thirteen months we spent there).
Everyone of the twenty or so of our battalion's interpreters were Kurds and many of the Iraqi soldiers and police officers in the Mosul region were as well. Every single Kurdish soldier and police officer I met spoke Arabic, Kurdish, Turkish and English. A few spoke Russian and Persian. These weren't always traditionally educated men, though a few had graduated from the University of Mosul, but rather had learned all the languages out of both a need to survive and an unspoken good natured competition between one another as to whom could be the most fluent in the most languages.
I found them all to be good men, highly intelligent soldiers and solid fighters.
The Kurds are very well liked among the us military, and Erbil probably has the highest number of US troops. They're great fighters and courageous people. Imo they're the sole reason Iraq wasn't overrun by ISIS, as the official Iraqi army wasn't putting up a fight and the PMF wasn't really armed and established. I hope one day they will be strong enough and supported enough to prevent turkey and Iran from bombing them whenever they want.
Kurds have been wronged for so long and had lived a tough life for decades
They don’t back down as easily like their Southern counterparts
@@EM-tx3lyIraq: My brother, why do you want my country, my brother?
Appreciate your kind words as a kurd brother, I wish you luck and happiness in life, you sound very intelligent yourself and hopefully one day Kurdistan will be established and you will be more than welcome to visit.
@@CsCfg Iraq: Sorry brother, but you are Aryans
Kurds are good folks
They’re famous for beating women, cousin marriage, honor killings and islamism. 😂
Wow, that is a classic underdog story if I ever heard one. I hope the Kurdish people can win their independence someday.
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It is not possible
I have worked with Kurds in Iraq and Turkey. Some of the finest people.
Kurdistan ❤❤❤❤❤❤
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If you love them so much, you can give them some territory from your country, so they can establish Kurdistan there and not steal lands from other countries. Win-Win
@@Alierturk7but turkeya is our land bro and his realy name us kurdistan😊
@@Alierturk7 stfu Mongol, you really have no shame, this is there own land, why does another country have to give them land?? they want their own land the one you stole from them, it's written in every history book, a Greek jew man name Kemal created turkey and stole the Kurdish land even though he promise he will give them independence if they support him against greek
Ive been wanting to know more about Kurdistan since i 1st heard about it back in school from a classmate who happend to be from MASSIVE Kurdish family... i didnt really understand at 1st but, ive come along way... and Thankyou for the vid on topic here buddy i appriciate your effort
Kurdistan and Kurds are upper Mesopotamia endogenous people , close tie with Sumerian , Aryan and hurricane , pity after WW1 colonialism divided Kurdistan over newly made fake countries like Turkey , Iran , Iraq and Syria , mistake or crime done by English and French last century need to be corrected now , it’s 21 century everyone has to be free for self determination so as Kurds
With respect to all the countries and nations of the world, the Kurdish nation, with a population of more than fifty million and a well-known language and ancient culture and civilization, deserves a government. I hope the great powers will understand. Please introduce Kurdistan to the world with a video.❤
The Kurds deserve so much more for what they've done, I feel like the west has screwed them over multiple times.
No they never, they created the safe haven in 1991 after the first gulf war and have had a presence ever since. Including support, it is no accident DAESH didn’t get much further than Mosul with its predominantly Arab population.
The current issues are about the enclave areas in which the surrounding countries claim, the core of Kurdistan is stable.
#FREEKURDISTAN💚❤️💛
They fought with alongside us when we were in Iraq. Their AOR was the ONLY area we felt safe for good reason: They stopped taking shit from the rest of that "country" once they saved Northern Iraq from Daesh. They organized their militias unlike Arabic Shiites and Sunnis in-fighting over scraps of Hussein's former reign. Incredibly brave, absolutely steadfast in their resolve, patriotic to their cause and they are fiercely protective over their identity. I respect that as a Native American.
Now that Sweden is joining NATO, I wonder what Turkey bargained in regards to the PKK and Kurdish independence.
Well said.
In Sweden PKK has been presented as representing a lot of the Kurds for years. It's only in present times that reports of lokal actors blackmailing other Kurds and funneling the money to PKK.
Public opinion in that matter is changing fast but at the same time there is a clash between Turkish interpretation of freedom of religion and Swedish interpretation of freedom of speech. I think forces outside Sweden nudged Turkey to acctept Sweden into Nato rather than Sweden following all of Turkeys demands.
If there is one singular redeeming fact about Bush 41, it's the no-fly zone he instituted over Iraqi Kurdistan. At least some people survived the chemical raids this way.
It's also weird how one of the heroes of the Muslim world, Yusuf ibn Ayub, better known as Salahuddin was a Kurd and born in Tikrit.
Saddam was not kurdi, but born in the same city and tried to exterminate them.
In politics everyone is a enemy. Dog eats everything. ✌️☘️
So given that, and I agree mostly, why did the Peshmerga collapse in just days when the Iraqi Army moved into Kurdish areas to the edge of the governorates of Dohuk, Erbil and Sulimania? I wouldnt down play the Iraqi forces so much - yes they melted away in disgrace from ISIS in 2014 (which was a result of horrible governing by the Iraqis making Sunnis the underclass, and hence easy to recruit).
But the Gold Division were the primary fighters in battle for Mosul which was so long and difficult due to all the vast tunnel systems built. The Militias were more of a follow-up police force and not front line soldiers then. Some were for their own groups (Christian Militias - Chaldeans), Turkoman, Kakai' and Shabbak, so they acted as their own defense forces. The Shia militias were really in it for money - once Iran stopped funding them, they basically became occupying units and began kidnapping the wealthy for cash in some areas. I had to meet some militias for road access but soon a Iraqi National Police force moved in as the local force in Mosul.
There was a Kurdish population in Nagorno-Karabakh. They were expelled by the Armenians when Armenia took the region. They justified the expulsion because the Kurds had assisted in the Turkish genocide against the Armenians.
Kurds admitted their crime regarding Armenian Genocide. Yet they brazenly claim Van , Bitlis, Mush( places where Armenians massacred in their historic homeland ) as Kurdistan although those lands are within Armenian borders according to the first resolution of league of nations in Feb 1920.
Besides, Kurds will never make free people country even for Kurds themselves. Because you are like north Korea, Syria, azerbaijan, the son inherits presidency from father!!!???
Not inside Nagorno-karabakh but in-between it and Armenia.............
the Lachin corridor
There is no genocide
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turks will never learn the easy way.
turks not only don't regret their crimes against humanity, which all the world knows. But, brazenly deny.
Which genocide simp
I fought side by side with the kurds in iraq. They are incredible people.
Thanks for your service and help.
From Kurdistan.
Who did you fight against?turks ?
god bless you hewalo
Roasted they look even more incredible 😂😂😂
@@thegratepotato1281
You are talking like an American. It is an American way to thank for your service. We in this part of the world don’t serve because we are not slaves. We help each other!
From Turkiye
I would definitely love to see a video on Kurdish culture and identity on your other channel, please!
Me too!
They have none
Kurdish culture:
Tribal life, inbred marriage, child marriage, constant family infighting, smuggling, dancing.
There you go, Kurdish 'culture'
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@alibaba-wl8jbwhatever you say you racist mug
1:15 - Chapter 1 - Kurds & kurdistan
4:30 - Chapter 2 - Early struggles for autonomy
7:20 - Chapter 3 - The peshmerga
12:45 - Chapter 4 - The PKK & continued repression
17:30 - Chapter 5 - Kurdish civil war
22:05 - Chapter 6 - War on terror & the islamic state
28:55 - Chapter 7 - Continued conflict
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- Chapter 9 -
- Chapter 10 -
This was mostly neutral but there were still downplaying facts and some huge mistakes, for example PKK was so wickedly attacking civilians including even Kurdish civilians the second highest casualty in this conflict after terrorists themselves isn't Turkish army, police nor civilians at all rather it is actually KURDS, civilians and especially Kurdish village guards that PKK killed thousands of them! There are hundreds of villages in southeastern Turkey alone and because the region is extremely mountainous Turkish army couldn't protect all villages constantly and Kurdish villagers were becoming easy targets for PKK raids. As a solution the government trained and armed Kurdish civilians so they could defend themselves until the army arrived. I bet some people may think ''Kurdish'' PKK and Kurdish villagers didn't fight against each others but in reality it is terrorist PKK which was seizing their assests while calling it ''tax'' and even forcefully recruiting their children! So Kurdish village guards pretty much always fought against them even if they were greatly outnumbered, while PKK simply declared them as ''traitors'' and mercilessly killed thousands of them!! Especially in 90s their violence was out of control if a Kurdish intellectual could talk against PKK would be found dead in their homes. Suicide bombing attacks in public buses, squires, markets, stations, stadiums you name it and this is the reason why literally DOZENS of countries recognize PKK as a terrorist organization as they really are terrorists!! PKK isn't committing as many terrorist attacks as before doesn't prove they magically changed like some westerners claim. Rather it is mainly because they can not smuggle both arms and themselves through Turkish-Iraqi anymore because of constant surveillance by drones. In 90s the best Turkey could do was building border outposts along the mountanious border to literally watch the border with soldiers and several dozen soldiers in a mountain peak were often becoming a target themselves..
It is true KDP asked support from even saddam but they did that out of desperation, after years of infighting they were exhausted and with great Iranian support PUK was gaining upper hand. This was also the point PKK joined PUK alliance not after KDP asked support from Iraqi government, there is a timelapse for obvious reasons! It was also completely ignored after PUK territorial gains in 1997 Turkey invaded norhern Iraq with 60,000 soldiers as PKK alliance couldn't be allowed to win the civil war and gain huge support. Instead of the truth it is told like Barzani stopped the civil war by swinging his magical wand for obvious reasons. This Turkish intervention and ending the civil war in favour of KDP was also the reason why Turkey and Barzanis have been allies since then and 15 Turkish bases were built in KDP territories started from 1998 for training Peshmerga forces and providing security.
It is also a completely a false Turkey blocked KRG's access to the world, in fact both Barzani and Talabani also many Iraqi Kurds have TURKISH diplomatic passports so they can travel through Turkey freely and ask for support from other nations. What more Turkey supposed to do than giving people diplomatic passports who aren't even Turkish citizens, huh?? Then they also completely ignored vast majority of KRG's trade travel through Turkey including 95% of their oil exports and this was the only reason KRG could survive so long. Then comes ''Turkey using PKK as an excuse to attack YPG'' nonsense, while in reality there are around TWO THOUSAND PKK terrorists in YPG's ranks, in fact even the commander of YPG is a ''former'' PKK terrorists called Mazloum Abdi! This isn't a secret or anything, just search his name you would see he is a known PKK terrorist, but no worries according to our ''trustworthy'' allies he retired being a terrorist and he is a democratic hero now!! Turkey will never ever accept this moronity, while the only way PKK terrorists can be declared innocent they will surrender and apologize to the people that they killed thousands of them. Until it happens Turkey will continue targeting them in every opportunity or YPG can cut it's ties with PKK, in fact Turkey actually asked it from US many times before starting operations against them which was ofc forgotten again! However with even it's commander being a PKK terrorist i guess it is extremely unlikely they can cut ties or could be even called seperate organizations...
PS: There aren't 30-40 million Kurdish people living Kurdistan, for example over 12 million Kurdish people out of Turkey's around 18 million Kurdish minority live in WESTERN Turkey not in Kurdistan. While the biggest Kurdish city in the world isn't Erbil, Sanadaj or Diyarbakır rather ISTANBUL with 3 million Kurdish population! They could at least research about populations properly but nope..
27:50 Map from after Alexander the great period :)
@@ggoddkkiller1342 lol it’s cute you paint the Turkish state that made the Kurdish language illegal for instruction and governance as protectors of their Kurdish minority.
Continued repression my ass. The wife of Erdoğan is Kurdish-descent, for more than 10 years the head of intelligence was a Kurdish-descent (now Foreign Secretary)
On the other hand, do you know how many villagers, teachers, workers, children, public officials have been murdered by mines, ambushes, bombings, shootings, Molotov attacks, etc since 1984 by so called "freedom fighters of pkk"?
Kurds as for many other people from different ethnic background have the same freedom in Türkiye as long as they don't arm themselves and run into the mountains to live like wild dogs only to drug themselves to blow up a remote observation post filled with army soldiers, police stations in the cities, busy main streets in the city center, etc.
I truly hope that one day the same exact thing would pop up in the USA or in the West. I would then see how civilized and forgiving the US or Western people are towards the terrorists claiming fighting for freedom whilst burning forests (see how many terrorists have been apprehended before, during, after forest fires in Türkiye...)
There are things that the manipulative Western media shows and there are truth.
STFU if you know jack about a reality, going on for more than 40 years and claimed more than 40 fucking thousand peoples lives...
@@ggoddkkiller1342 PKK killed more Kurdish people in the area than any foreign power. Wake up guys. PKK pretty much cleaned out Kurdish villages with massacres which you can go and read about. Nothing but a bunch of baby killers.
I would love a video about kurdish culture.
We are working to build a strong country in the world.
It will be great Kurdistan
Love the Kurds they are great people. We should do more to help them rather than countries that hate us.
@XbxbnWhdj United States
I love The Blacks and latinas. espessiclly in United States. We should do more to help them rather than countries that hate us.
@@a.g.5983You have done more for blacks than any other country. They never seem to be satisfied. Asia, east Europa and Middle East threat them like shit, east Asia have black population less than 1%. They kill country from inside. USA have now 50 million ! Blacks. And a lot other non American people. White is about 50% soon in their own country. When war start china, Russia and Iran and all Islamic countries against USA they will aleredy be losing by their on hostile populations. It was a big mistake to let them in 200 years ago. Today it’s the divided country of America
Her bijî Kurdistan
Long live Kurdistan
Long live the king
@@nostaljiturkceserok barzani
@@aqwsderxz
How about us? Do we all get to live long in peace if possible?
@@nostaljiturkceyeah ofc
Im honestly surprised the editors managed to keep this video this short.
Yes it was a very simplified explanation of the topic.
✌️Thank you for sharing our story
Great video!
Will you make a in-depth breakdown of their culture and history?
Would love to learn more about the Kurds
Yes please!
They have none
@@anilsilvercock you watched the same video as I?
@@Romanized_QuranWell the thing is, Kurds almost never existed as a state besides small kingdoms. That's why their notable moments in history is rather lacking. Wikipedia tends to say Ayyubid Dynasty is Kurdish but it was rather an Arabic dynasty. Later replaced bu a Turkic dynasty as the Mamluks.(Although still having ruled with mostly Arab influence)
@@antgaming5756 even bigger reason to make a in-depth video, would love to learn more
Hello from Kurdistan #Lalish❤💛💚
If Palestine had a state then Kurdistan need too
Not even the same thing
Kurds are a united culture Palestinians are divided tribes whose only common identity is hating Israel.
'Palestinians' have a state it is called JORDAN. Kurds actually deserve a state, Gazans and West Bankers DO NOT.
Hi Simon, great topic! And a fairly relevant one for me as an inhabitant of the Middle East I guess..
As per your suggestion in the video, I *am* very much interested in a more detailed ethnographic/historic survey of the Kurds.
Cheers!
You mean Aryan immigrants
@@عليياسر-ذ5ب what are you talking about?
@@normanradd1909 The Aryans in the Middle East are immigrants coming from western Mongolia, Central Asia, and northern India, and they worshiped the dragon and the Nazi symbol, and they killed the indigenous people of Iran, who are Elam
@@عليياسر-ذ5ب u talking about turks. We have a history and place never smaller than the old iraq oh sorry iran puppet* and even though this video is about kurds why tf is an dirty arab commenting?
@@عليياسر-ذ5ب if you want to be so wrong and stupid at least get one thing right, literally any correct information would have been fine, but you went straight doe being stupid?! Definitely a choice
As a Kurd , thanks for your great video , Kurdistan Region of Iraq currently able to produce 500K barrels of oil per day and 500 Million standard cubic feet
And still not able to pay salaries of people, restorate the schools…
For the sake of Kurdistan unity, Will you share your god given wealth to your Kurdish brother and sisters who where born in Iran, Turkey and Syria? Or you look down at them and keep being hostile to them as usual?
@@cyrusmackie9376those oils are used to pay for south Kurds
@@xeon39688 it isn't. it was shared between the Barzani boys and Erdogan. Salaries weren't paid when Baghdad stop sending funds because the KDP stopped sending them oil. And because the Barzanis approach everything like they're working on their fathers farm, all that money, billions of dollars, which they put in dodgy Turkish banks, are now denied to them by Erdogan after the French courts decision that the sales were illegal. So most of the oil money is now in Turkish hands, which is probably why the KDP are now the personal soldiers of Erdogan, attacking other Kurds fighting against Turkish fascists.
Landlocked anyways
Thank you for taking on this topic.
I’d love a video on Kurdish culture as a whole!
Probably not on here but there's certainly room for one on one of Simon's 8 gajillion channels on here
@@wheeliebeast7679well we have Biographics, Geographics, and Warographics so the next new channel should be called Demographics
This was mostly neutral but there were still downplaying facts and some huge mistakes, for example PKK was so wickedly attacking civilians including even Kurdish civilians the second highest casualty in this conflict after terrorists themselves isn't Turkish army, police nor civilians at all rather it is actually KURDS, civilians and especially Kurdish village guards that PKK killed thousands of them! There are hundreds of villages in southeastern Turkey alone and because the region is extremely mountainous Turkish army couldn't protect all villages constantly and Kurdish villagers were becoming easy targets for PKK raids. As a solution the government trained and armed Kurdish civilians so they could defend themselves until the army arrived. I bet some people may think ''Kurdish'' PKK and Kurdish villagers didn't fight against each others but in reality it is terrorist PKK which was seizing their assests while calling it ''tax'' and even forcefully recruiting their children! So Kurdish village guards pretty much always fought against them even if they were greatly outnumbered, while PKK simply declared them as ''traitors'' and mercilessly killed thousands of them!! Especially in 90s their violence was out of control if a Kurdish intellectual could talk against PKK would be found dead in their homes. Suicide bombing attacks in public buses, squires, markets, stations, stadiums you name it and this is the reason why literally DOZENS of countries recognize PKK as a terrorist organization as they really are terrorists!! PKK isn't committing as many terrorist attacks as before doesn't prove they magically changed like some westerners claim. Rather it is mainly because they can not smuggle both arms and themselves through Turkish-Iraqi anymore because of constant surveillance by drones. In 90s the best Turkey could do was building border outposts along the mountanious border to literally watch the border with soldiers and several dozen soldiers in a mountain peak were often becoming a target themselves..
It is true KDP asked support from even saddam but they did that out of desperation, after years of infighting they were exhausted and with great Iranian support PUK was gaining upper hand. This was also the point PKK joined PUK alliance not after KDP asked support from Iraqi government, there is a timelapse for obvious reasons! It was also completely ignored after PUK territorial gains in 1997 Turkey invaded norhern Iraq with 60,000 soldiers as PKK alliance couldn't be allowed to win the civil war and gain huge support. Instead of the truth it is told like Barzani stopped the civil war by swinging his magical wand for obvious reasons. This Turkish intervention and ending the civil war in favour of KDP was also the reason why Turkey and Barzanis have been allies since then and 15 Turkish bases were built in KDP territories started from 1998 for training Peshmerga forces and providing security.
It is also a completely a false Turkey blocked KRG's access to the world, in fact both Barzani and Talabani also many Iraqi Kurds have TURKISH diplomatic passports so they can travel through Turkey freely and ask for support from other nations. What more Turkey supposed to do than giving people diplomatic passports who aren't even Turkish citizens, huh?? Then they also completely ignored vast majority of KRG's trade travel through Turkey including 95% of their oil exports and this was the only reason KRG could survive so long. Then comes ''Turkey using PKK as an excuse to attack YPG'' nonsense, while in reality there are around TWO THOUSAND PKK terrorists in YPG's ranks, in fact even the commander of YPG is a ''former'' PKK terrorists called Mazloum Abdi! This isn't a secret or anything, just search his name you would see he is a known PKK terrorist, but no worries according to our ''trustworthy'' allies he retired being a terrorist and he is a democratic hero now!! Turkey will never ever accept this moronity, while the only way PKK terrorists can be declared innocent they will surrender and apologize to the people that they killed thousands of them. Until it happens Turkey will continue targeting them in every opportunity or YPG can cut it's ties with PKK, in fact Turkey actually asked it from US many times before starting operations against them which was ofc forgotten again! However with even it's commander being a PKK terrorist i guess it is extremely unlikely they can cut ties or could be even called seperate organizations...
PS: There aren't 30-40 million Kurdish people living Kurdistan, for example over 12 million Kurdish people out of Turkey's around 18 million Kurdish minority live in WESTERN Turkey not in Kurdistan. While the biggest Kurdish city in the world isn't Erbil, Sanadaj or Diyarbakır rather ISTANBUL with 3 million Kurdish population! They could at least research about populations properly but nope! By the way even if im a Turkish person im fully support a Kurdish state they suffered a lot especially in Iraq and we would rather having a border with a Kurdish state than Iraqis. But a KURDISH state not a terrorist state, we will never ever support such a country and even fight against it's forces as long as those PKK terrorists are in charge..
@@ggoddkkiller1342Spaming the same propaganda under every single comment is creepy
@@slipslip9163 I can spam a million times if i want, it is none of your business! On the other hand you are free to quote those ''propaganda'' parts if you can actually manage ofc...
LONG LİVE KURDİSTAN 🇹🇯🥰🖐️
Brako❤
Am an amazigh and i can say that you look a lot like us love yoy 😊❤❤
God bless the Kurds and Kurdistan!!!❤
Best video yet.
Thanks. Zor supas.
Kurds are wonderful people and long live Kurds and humanity
Turkey so desperate to break the Kurds is not talked about enough
Talk about the kurdish teror organizaton pkk/ypg also. Theres nothing occupied. Kurds never had a state. How can a state that did never exist be occupied
@tulayandic in the same logic why do edorgan now believe there should be a Palestinian state
@ no there is already one
@ israel. Was built on the alrady existing palestinian state
@tulayandic Kurds never had a country but they have everything a country should have, a population, a unique culture, military, defined land.
I had a professor at Michigan university who was kurdish. Liked the guy.
I was there is Erbil, Suly all over in 2004-2005, they are hands down some of the most loyal, kind generous people on Earth! The US has crapped on them forever !
Excellent excellent excellent video! Thank you so much!!
2:55 I would personally love to see a video on kurdish people and culture if possible
Same!
Many videos are there
@@Sizar8 Share some of them then
Search it, and you will find many. Unless you don't know how to search
Great program 💯
Kurdistan are in the same situation as Poland one century ago
Only a great war on the region can bring then a chance to have their sovereignty
100%.
Please do a video on the Sykes Picot Agreement and the ramifications. Bonus points if you include notations of T. E. Lawrence and the formation of modern Isreal.
My father was in Iraq in the British army during WW2. He had a very high opinion of the Kurds.
What you means?
WTF was your father doing in Iraq in the first place?
"Army" = bodyguards for politicians (thugs in suits) that want to steal peoples' sh*t. Oil in this example..
@@AbdullahXalki Lady Adela, maybe?
Of course he had
he meant he thought good of them@@AbdullahXalki
I'm an Egyptian and for us the kurdistan issue is agreat example for what the britsh and french done in the world they separated nations and disputed lands in the Middle East for their sakes
Then they left the region fractured with alot of borders problems
It's so sad that till now their is no justice in the world , just the jungle rules
I hope one day kurds will have their country which is their right historically and culturally they are a nation and this is there land
On other hand the western wouldn't help them cause they the resone from the beginning
also turkey and ottoman promised huge everything and gave us nothing we got robbed
I worked with the Kurds while I was in the service. As with Palestine, Kurdistan will one day rise. #LongliveKurdistan!!!
Long live Emperor Palpatine!
This was mostly neutral but there were still downplaying facts and some huge mistakes, for example PKK was so wickedly attacking civilians including even Kurdish civilians the second highest casualty in this conflict after terrorists themselves isn't Turkish army, police nor civilians at all rather it is actually KURDS, civilians and especially Kurdish village guards that PKK killed thousands of them! There are hundreds of villages in southeastern Turkey alone and because the region is extremely mountainous Turkish army couldn't protect all villages constantly and Kurdish villagers were becoming easy targets for PKK raids. As a solution the government trained and armed Kurdish civilians so they could defend themselves until the army arrived. I bet some people may think ''Kurdish'' PKK and Kurdish villagers didn't fight against each others but in reality it is terrorist PKK which was seizing their assests while calling it ''tax'' and even forcefully recruiting their children! So Kurdish village guards pretty much always fought against them even if they were greatly outnumbered, while PKK simply declared them as ''traitors'' and mercilessly killed thousands of them!! Especially in 90s their violence was out of control if a Kurdish intellectual could talk against PKK would be found dead in their homes. Suicide bombing attacks in public buses, squires, markets, stations, stadiums you name it and this is the reason why literally DOZENS of countries recognize PKK as a terrorist organization as they really are terrorists!! PKK isn't committing as many terrorist attacks as before doesn't prove they magically changed like some westerners claim. Rather it is mainly because they can not smuggle both arms and themselves through Turkish-Iraqi anymore because of constant surveillance by drones. In 90s the best Turkey could do was building border outposts along the mountanious border to literally watch the border with soldiers and several dozen soldiers in a mountain peak were often becoming a target themselves..
It is true KDP asked support from even saddam but they did that out of desperation, after years of infighting they were exhausted and with great Iranian support PUK was gaining upper hand. This was also the point PKK joined PUK alliance not after KDP asked support from Iraqi government, there is a timelapse for obvious reasons! It was also completely ignored after PUK territorial gains in 1997 Turkey invaded norhern Iraq with 60,000 soldiers as PKK alliance couldn't be allowed to win the civil war and gain huge support. Instead of the truth it is told like Barzani stopped the civil war by swinging his magical wand for obvious reasons. This Turkish intervention and ending the civil war in favour of KDP was also the reason why Turkey and Barzanis have been allies since then and 15 Turkish bases were built in KDP territories started from 1998 for training Peshmerga forces and providing security.
It is also a completely a false Turkey blocked KRG's access to the world, in fact both Barzani and Talabani also many Iraqi Kurds have TURKISH diplomatic passports so they can travel through Turkey freely and ask for support from other nations. What more Turkey supposed to do than giving people diplomatic passports who aren't even Turkish citizens, huh?? Then they also completely ignored vast majority of KRG's trade travel through Turkey including 95% of their oil exports and this was the only reason KRG could survive so long. Then comes ''Turkey using PKK as an excuse to attack YPG'' nonsense, while in reality there are around TWO THOUSAND PKK terrorists in YPG's ranks, in fact even the commander of YPG is a ''former'' PKK terrorists called Mazloum Abdi! This isn't a secret or anything, just search his name you would see he is a known PKK terrorist, but no worries according to our ''trustworthy'' allies he retired being a terrorist and he is a democratic hero now!! Turkey will never ever accept this moronity, while the only way PKK terrorists can be declared innocent they will surrender and apologize to the people that they killed thousands of them. Until it happens Turkey will continue targeting them in every opportunity or YPG can cut it's ties with PKK, in fact Turkey actually asked it from US many times before starting operations against them which was ofc forgotten again! However with even it's commander being a PKK terrorist i guess it is extremely unlikely they can cut ties or could be even called seperate organizations...
PS: There aren't 30-40 million Kurdish people living Kurdistan, for example over 12 million Kurdish people out of Turkey's around 18 million Kurdish minority live in WESTERN Turkey not in Kurdistan. While the biggest Kurdish city in the world isn't Erbil, Sanadaj or Diyarbakır rather ISTANBUL with 3 million Kurdish population! They could at least research about populations properly but nope! By the way even if im a Turkish person im fully supporting a Kurdish state they suffered a lot especially in Iraq and we would rather having a border with a Kurdish state than Iraqis or Syrians. But a KURDISH state not a terrorist state, we will never ever support such a country and even fight against it's forces as long as those PKK terrorists are in charge..
dear sir you thanks for kurdish real history that you telling🙏🙏
Thank you for knowing and sharing this about the Kurdish people
Thank you so much for making this video.. now the people will know a little bit more about the Kurds. God bless you 🙏
My dear Kurdish brothers and sisters. I as a Bosniak love you and respect you❤
thanks who respeckt kurdish people and their freedem..
Freedom doesnt exist
We love you 2 ❤ long live Bosnian ☝🏼
Well done, Simon. Amazing research, on your part and staff.
har bji Kurdistan ❤
As a Kurdish nationalist I can say the biggest mistake our people made they think America and west are our enemies but they should realize they are our friends and they are ready to help us to have our own country. I hope one day our people will understand we can’t do it without west’s and America’s help.
😂😂😂 the west doesn’t care about Kurds. They don’t even support our independence
You are turkish/arabe
As a Kurdish im very proud of this video, thanks very much for mentioning us!
However I know my people fought hard in past but if just they knew how corrupt the government will be after saddam i swear no body would fight for the cause
@zhingull5792 indeed why don't help the people and improve the youth while the youths are every country's treasure!
The problem from the start those were not people of responsibility but rather just some business men got helped my us while saddam cracked they identifyed themselves as the the heros
Like I can write down for you billion of words yet that is not enough... We are a small nation with a lot of resources like oil we should be rich as like qatar ... But no that didn't happen!
This government's produce is only slave people...
Unfortunately 💔
@alibaba-wl8jb
Ok mr racist
@alibaba-wl8jbdo a dna test turk you will not be happy
@alibaba-wl8jb Aww, bless your heart. It must be exhausting to be so wrong all the time. But hey, keep spreading your baseless conspiracy theories. It's a good reminder that ignorance truly knows no bounds.
Kurds should be allowed to be free and be able to enjoy sovereignty like other nations.
A large portion of my deployment to Iraq in 2008-2009 was at or near Mt Sinjar. The people in that region were the nicest, most humble humans I’ve ever met. I’m ashamed my nation left the to the wolves of the region as the did.
Don't be ashamed of what your nation did be ashamed of Turkey and how they have been the dominant country that has their bootheel on the very idea of their ever existing and independent Kurdish Nation
Turkey regularly abuses its position in NATO to ensure that there can never be an independent Kurdistan
@@rejvaik00 turkey could easily bring stability to the region and be a powerhouse once again, but they’d rather deal in ideological radicalism. The entire middle east fails to realize if Kurdistan were given autonomy, the world jihadist population would drop, Kurds don’t take kindly to these extremists
Stop blaming Turks for the wars in the Middle East you hypocrites! The wars were in Europe when Turks ruled in the Middle East! It was the British who drew the recent borders of our time not the Turks! They arranged it so well that it would be difficult for us to unite again because they are very well aware of us sending them back where they came from when we unite!
How arrogant of you to blame Turkiye for destabilizing its own borders! Do you fcking say a war in the Middle East will help Turkiye prosper? Turkish economy would have been a lot better if there was peace not war! Sooner or later we will unite once all the colonial powers are cleansed from the vicinity.
The real traitors are those who want to divide. Even the stupid small fish know how to defend themselves against large predators! They come together and pretend to be large even though they are not!
@@rejvaik00What exactly did you Except of turkey when some minor militias tries to divide it? Ofc turkey will take action and crush its rebelles. I do not think there is a shame in it.
@@rejvaik00 If you wouldn't form a terrorist organization in Turkish land, we may help you accomplish your goals. Even this Turkish hater channel couldn't defend you without recognizing how horrible your actions were. But after all that Turkey is the most peaceful place you could ever live in the region. You carry the same ID card as I do. But you would rather bite the hand that would rescue you from Chemical Ali. What goes around comes around. Let's face it Turkey will never let you form the terrorist nation that you would dream of.
Also, I don't understand why this channel wouldn't call PKK what it is, a terrorist organization that is responsible for almost 50% of the organized crime in Europe. That so-called young intellectual had 5 billion US dollars in his personal account in Switzerland. Most of that was sourced from heroin and human trade.
Thank you for this video!
Thank you for the beautiful video. Thank you thank you so much. I am My Kurdish. I am so proud of myself for the beautiful video thank you so much. I am a Kurdish. I miss Kurdistan but I'm in Canada 🇨🇦 No, I watch this video. I didn’t much appreciate it because you reminded me of back home. No, I watched this video I'm so happy thanks.😊
Instead of marching for support of terrorist state of Palestine, a nation born from nowhere relatively recently, people should stand up for real nation without country that has been living on their native land for centuries, the Kurds, oppressed by other countries, kingdoms, empires.
People are too blind to see it, they're obsessed with blaming Israel.
So corrected call Free, Free Kurdistan!
Israel also stands with Kurdistan!
I'm Kurdish but personally i think palestine should be free also
@@OWTSharkpalestinians don’t like you. they hate the Kurds, so stop supporting them.
Every non islamist kurd like me supports israel, Am Yisrael Chai🇮🇱
@@netalllf2329❤❤❤
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Can't lie, I just laughed out loud when I saw Simon pop on my screen
Kurds need their own country, even if the borders are not as large as wanted. Their own nation is warranted
What sucks is, they will be landlocked. What if they need stuff like oil shipped from other countries? They'd have to get permission to access the ocean from the neighboring countries, the ones they fought against.
Shut up Todd
Control your zlu t wife first
yeaah! let's establish a country based on impulsive emotions after a youtube video brainwash without knowing the reality of the region!!! You must be a genius!! and yes let's give them an access to ocean as well even there is no god damn ocean in the region!
make it in your country
@@Free_Muslim_Unlike_SlavesTurkey has the most kurds so most likely force turkey
B) Mistakes:
1) You said Kurdistan was divided between four countries AFTER WW I. This is false. Western borders of Iran were largely settled in 1639 with the Treaty of Zuhab and only a few largely minor changes were made later. While before that, most of Kurdistan was part of Iran with those regions only being lost after Ottomans defeated Iran (back then known as Persia in the west) in the Battle of Chaldiran.
2) Unlike what you mentioned here, the Kurdish movements didn't began after World War II, there was a Kingdom of Kurdistan established in 1921 in the region of Sulaymaniyah, Iraq, which lasted until 1925 and then there was the Republic of Ararat (1927-1931) and the Dersim rebellion of late 30s in Turkey. There was also an autonomous region for Kurds of Karabakh called Kurdistan uezd (Red Kurdistan) as part of the USSR that lasted from 1923 to 1929 before being absorbed into Azerbaijani SSR. Of course there were also rebellions in late 1800s and during WW I but it seems to me that they were more tribal in nature.
3) Minor mistakes:
6:07 This is the flag of the Islamic republic, wrong flag for Iran of 1946.
15:12 Wrong flag for 1980s Iraq, this was only adopted in 2008.
15:47 I think this is the picture of modern Iraqi military, their uniforms look similar to the Americans.
Finally, the name of the leader of the PKK should be pronounced like Ojalan not Okalan, c in Turkish alphabate and the latin Kurmanji Kurdish alphabet is pronounced like J in English.
Well spotted mistakes. I agree with you.
Perfectly noted and pointed, most of the photos are in the wrong places.
@@Farhad6th Iraqi Kurdistan went for independence and no power supported them.
Please do a video on Kurdish Traditions and History
Var
Cousin marriage, honor killings and islamism. Google them.
My question is whether the Kurds are nomads from Central-Asia (Turkish, Hunnish, Alanni, and Sarmatian like tribes) that migrated into the debatable borderlands of the late Roman Empire and Sassanid Persia or are they more related to the Perso-Armenians who were an in between group of people both related to the Ancient Armenians and the Medes of Persia?
The Kurds are the indigenous population of Mesopotamia and the heritage of many peoples and dynasties that originated or settled there. Their history is 4000 years old and were already mentioned by the Sumerians. They are mostly descended from Mittani, Gutis, Hurrians and Iranian nomads peoples of western Iran. They are not nomads, there are some few tribes who were or still are nomads.
@@Meme-fz1kzWhen did the Aryans become indigenous? Go to your homeland, Western Mongolia, Siberia, Central Asia, and Northern India.
Kurds are indians
Kurds are one of the Iranic groups genetically, culturally, and linguistically like Persians, Scythians, Pashtuns, etc. They are mostly related to Medes but there were many migrations. For example, the Parthians who ruled Iran were Scythians and today both Persian and Kurdish are coming from Middle Persian which is Parthian but Persian still has Persian substrum and Kurdish has Median substrum. They both mixed with Scythians as well. And yes, nomadic culture is a way of life for all the Iranic people but many of them started to be settled during the Ancient times and some of them continue this culture. Until the late 1800s, Kurds were classified as semi-nomads but many of them were settled since Ancient times too.
Bir Kürt olarak anlarım bizim tarihimiz 5 bin yıl önce dayanıyor ve bütün dünya biliyor ki Osmanlı yıkılınca kürtlerin devleti kürdistanımız 4 e böldüler ingilizler ve abd şua kürtler 4 ülkede yaşıyorlar sayımız şuan belli değil ama resmi dayanaklar 80 milyon varız sadece resmi daha çoğuz ki bir devletimiz bile şuan yok Türkiye İran ırak ve Suriye 4 e böldüler 😔😔
Excellent coverage of this important history. Well done, Simon! 😊
This is not an important history, history of terrorism...
@@alpertungahan😂 cry
@@ibrahimk.3227 he's a typical turk. thinks he owns everything in asia minor but doesn't mind being a slave in the Xinjiang.
the Kurds deserve a nation
God bless Kurdistan 🙏🏻
Amen
Bless what?
@@omerfarukozyap9475bless the bomb that blow up in Istanbul 😂
@@Peshwar-Kurdi couldnt expect any different from terrorists
@@omerfarukozyap9475is that all guys say? I don’t agree with the violence of the other guy that responded to you but why are you so bent to stop the prosperity of an entire ethnicity. (One that is more legit than yours I will add)
Greetings from Kurdistan! Thanks for the great video ❤️❤️❤️
Btw most of this is highly simplified, but still great.
K******** DOESN'T EXIST
Where is that
@@DarkVeilNebula you are right that country doesn't exist
@@DarkVeilNebula Middle East
Free Kurdistan! Free Yezidis people!
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Thank you for such a detailed talk about Kurdistan.
Awesome video thank you but some minor points. It’s important to note that Kurds were the only people that did not leave the Ottoman Empire while Arabs left for their newly formed nations and Turks later also chose nationalism. This left the Kurds with the “caliphate” mentality left. They actually rebelled several times against the idea of a “new modern secular turkey” with the likes of Sheikh Said and his rebellion.
The kurds also much earlier fought the English and also formed small kingdoms like sheik Mahmoud and his kingdom in Slemani.
With this I mean that the Kurds didint want the division of the caliphate (ottoman) and they didint accept the devision of sevres treaty.
With that said the Kurds have nothing left to trust or cooperate with the treaterous Turk and Arabs.
Free Kurdistan ♥️⭐💚
Free or a vassal state for the colonial powers?
make it in your country
Thank you to tell historie off Kurdistan. ❤❤
Kurdistan❤
Kurdistan ❤Kurds is It’s not Muslim is being forced being Muslim I’m Kurdish Jewish❤️
I was waiting on a video about the Kurds. Awesome
Its amazing my grandparents could raise the whole village im live in at a time where living was a challenge but iraqi troops killed him because he was kurdish I can imagine how great thay was
Thankfully my grandma tried her best to keep everyone alive
❤❤❤دەست خۆش😊😊thank you
Glad you talked about this unlucky culture
This was mostly neutral but there were still downplaying facts and some huge mistakes, for example PKK was so wickedly attacking civilians including even Kurdish civilians the second highest casualty in this conflict after terrorists themselves isn't Turkish army, police nor civilians at all rather it is actually KURDS, civilians and especially Kurdish village guards that PKK killed thousands of them! There are hundreds of villages in southeastern Turkey alone and because the region is extremely mountainous Turkish army couldn't protect all villages constantly and Kurdish villagers were becoming easy targets for PKK raids. As a solution the government trained and armed Kurdish civilians so they could defend themselves until the army arrived. I bet some people may think ''Kurdish'' PKK and Kurdish villagers didn't fight against each others but in reality it is terrorist PKK which was seizing their assests while calling it ''tax'' and even forcefully recruiting their children! So Kurdish village guards pretty much always fought against them even if they were greatly outnumbered, while PKK simply declared them as ''traitors'' and mercilessly killed thousands of them!! Especially in 90s their violence was out of control if a Kurdish intellectual could talk against PKK would be found dead in their homes. Suicide bombing attacks in public buses, squires, markets, stations, stadiums you name it and this is the reason why literally DOZENS of countries recognize PKK as a terrorist organization as they really are terrorists!! PKK isn't committing as many terrorist attacks as before doesn't prove they magically changed like some westerners claim. Rather it is mainly because they can not smuggle both arms and themselves through Turkish-Iraqi anymore because of constant surveillance by drones. In 90s the best Turkey could do was building border outposts along the mountanious border to literally watch the border with soldiers and several dozen soldiers in a mountain peak were often becoming a target themselves..
It is true KDP asked support from even saddam but they did that out of desperation, after years of infighting they were exhausted and with great Iranian support PUK was gaining upper hand. This was also the point PKK joined PUK alliance not after KDP asked support from Iraqi government, there is a timelapse for obvious reasons! It was also completely ignored after PUK territorial gains in 1997 Turkey invaded norhern Iraq with 60,000 soldiers as PKK alliance couldn't be allowed to win the civil war and gain huge support. Instead of the truth it is told like Barzani stopped the civil war by swinging his magical wand for obvious reasons. This Turkish intervention and ending the civil war in favour of KDP was also the reason why Turkey and Barzanis have been allies since then and 15 Turkish bases were built in KDP territories started from 1998 for training Peshmerga forces and providing security.
It is also a completely a false Turkey blocked KRG's access to the world, in fact both Barzani and Talabani also many Iraqi Kurds have TURKISH diplomatic passports so they can travel through Turkey freely and ask for support from other nations. What more Turkey supposed to do than giving people diplomatic passports who aren't even Turkish citizens, huh?? Then they also completely ignored vast majority of KRG's trade travel through Turkey including 95% of their oil exports and this was the only reason KRG could survive so long. Then comes ''Turkey using PKK as an excuse to attack YPG'' nonsense, while in reality there are around TWO THOUSAND PKK terrorists in YPG's ranks, in fact even the commander of YPG is a ''former'' PKK terrorists called Mazloum Abdi! This isn't a secret or anything, just search his name you would see he is a known PKK terrorist, but no worries according to our ''trustworthy'' allies he retired being a terrorist and he is a democratic hero now!! Turkey will never ever accept this moronity, while the only way PKK terrorists can be declared innocent they will surrender and apologize to the people that they killed thousands of them. Until it happens Turkey will continue targeting them in every opportunity or YPG can cut it's ties with PKK, in fact Turkey actually asked it from US many times before starting operations against them which was ofc forgotten again! However with even it's commander being a PKK terrorist i guess it is extremely unlikely they can cut ties or could be even called seperate organizations...
PS: There aren't 30-40 million Kurdish people living Kurdistan, for example over 12 million Kurdish people out of Turkey's around 18 million Kurdish minority live in WESTERN Turkey not in Kurdistan. While the biggest Kurdish city in the world isn't Erbil, Sanadaj or Diyarbakır rather ISTANBUL with 3 million Kurdish population! They could at least research about populations properly but nope! By the way even if im a Turkish person im fully supporting a Kurdish state they suffered a lot especially in Iraq and we would rather having a border with a Kurdish state than Iraqis or Syrians. But a KURDISH state not a terrorist state, we will never ever support such a country and even fight against it's forces as long as those PKK terrorists are in charge..
@@ggoddkkiller1342cool story bro, now stfu
@@ggoddkkiller1342 Ahh, can't you stop spamming this propagandist bs on every comment??
@@unacknowledged3537 You are always free to quote and prove my ''propaganda BS'' if you could manage ofc :))
Kurdish people are great people
Erbil city is really awesome city it’s a capital city ok Kurdistan ☀️
thank you❤❤دەست خۆش
20% of Turkey is Kurdish…Seperate …Freedom. I like Kurdish from North 🇮🇳
Algeria in 2001, and ten years later it became a constitutionally official language in Morocco. These developments have extended the use of Berber to the public domain (e.g., some schools, media outlets, and magazines). Nonetheless, when a Moroccan Arab and a Moroccan Berber meet, the customarily medium of com munication would be Moroccan Arabic possibly because Berber speakers also command Moroccan Arabic and not the opposite.
Kurdish is another language that competes for space in the Arabic socio linguistic scene. Kurdish is not a single language, but several languages that are spoken by diverse speech communities spread over areas in southeastern Turkey, western Iran, northern Iraq, northeastern Syria, and smaller parts of Geor gia and Armenia.20 The existence of the Kurdish people in the north parts of the Arab Middle East predates the existence of Arabs in this region (McDowall, 2004; Vali, 2003). Kurdish languages are not mutually intelligible, although they often share a wide range of linguistic properties (Hassanpour, 2012; McDowall, 2004; Meho & Maglaughlin, 2001; Vali, 2003). Within the Arab context, Kurdish is spoken mainly in northern Iraq and in small parts in northern Syria. Like Ber ber, Kurdish had conventionally been a spoken language (McDowall, 2004; Vali, 2003). Since 2003, however, Kurdish has become an official language in Iraq, and henceforward, it came to be used in administration, schools and universities, media, and print. With the current conflict in Syria, the Kurds may replicate the Iraq experience in terms of making Kurdish an official language within a pro spective autonomous state. Outside the Kurd-dominated areas, however, Kurdish has often had meager presence and influence compared to the Syrian and Iraqi dialects (O'Shea, 2004; Sheyholislami, 2008). However, the situation is changing, particularly in the Iraqi context.
While the presence of Berber and Kurdish is confined to certain parts of the Arab World, English and, to a lesser extent, French are two global languages whose influence is felt in various parts of the Arabic sociolinguistic arena.
The new Iraqi governments are some of the most righteous in the world.
Spoken like a true linguist
This was mostly neutral but there were still downplaying facts and some huge mistakes, for example PKK was so wickedly attacking civilians including even Kurdish civilians the second highest casualty in this conflict after terrorists themselves isn't Turkish army, police nor civilians at all rather it is actually KURDS, civilians and especially Kurdish village guards that PKK killed thousands of them! There are hundreds of villages in southeastern Turkey alone and because the region is extremely mountainous Turkish army couldn't protect all villages constantly and Kurdish villagers were becoming easy targets for PKK raids. As a solution the government trained and armed Kurdish civilians so they could defend themselves until the army arrived. I bet some people may think ''Kurdish'' PKK and Kurdish villagers didn't fight against each others but in reality it is terrorist PKK which was seizing their assests while calling it ''tax'' and even forcefully recruiting their children! So Kurdish village guards pretty much always fought against them even if they were greatly outnumbered, while PKK simply declared them as ''traitors'' and mercilessly killed thousands of them!! Especially in 90s their violence was out of control if a Kurdish intellectual could talk against PKK would be found dead in their homes. Suicide bombing attacks in public buses, squires, markets, stations, stadiums you name it and this is the reason why literally DOZENS of countries recognize PKK as a terrorist organization as they really are terrorists!! PKK isn't committing as many terrorist attacks as before doesn't prove they magically changed like some westerners claim. Rather it is mainly because they can not smuggle both arms and themselves through Turkish-Iraqi anymore because of constant surveillance by drones. In 90s the best Turkey could do was building border outposts along the mountanious border to literally watch the border with soldiers and several dozen soldiers in a mountain peak were often becoming a target themselves..
It is true KDP asked support from even saddam but they did that out of desperation, after years of infighting they were exhausted and with great Iranian support PUK was gaining upper hand. This was also the point PKK joined PUK alliance not after KDP asked support from Iraqi government, there is a timelapse for obvious reasons! It was also completely ignored after PUK territorial gains in 1997 Turkey invaded norhern Iraq with 60,000 soldiers as PKK alliance couldn't be allowed to win the civil war and gain huge support. Instead of the truth it is told like Barzani stopped the civil war by swinging his magical wand for obvious reasons. This Turkish intervention and ending the civil war in favour of KDP was also the reason why Turkey and Barzanis have been allies since then and 15 Turkish bases were built in KDP territories started from 1998 for training Peshmerga forces and providing security.
It is also a completely a false Turkey blocked KRG's access to the world, in fact both Barzani and Talabani also many Iraqi Kurds have TURKISH diplomatic passports so they can travel through Turkey freely and ask for support from other nations. What more Turkey supposed to do than giving people diplomatic passports who aren't even Turkish citizens, huh?? Then they also completely ignored vast majority of KRG's trade travel through Turkey including 95% of their oil exports and this was the only reason KRG could survive so long. Then comes ''Turkey using PKK as an excuse to attack YPG'' nonsense, while in reality there are around TWO THOUSAND PKK terrorists in YPG's ranks, in fact even the commander of YPG is a ''former'' PKK terrorists called Mazloum Abdi! This isn't a secret or anything, just search his name you would see he is a known PKK terrorist, but no worries according to our ''trustworthy'' allies he retired being a terrorist and he is a democratic hero now!! Turkey will never ever accept this moronity, while the only way PKK terrorists can be declared innocent they will surrender and apologize to the people that they killed thousands of them. Until it happens Turkey will continue targeting them in every opportunity or YPG can cut it's ties with PKK, in fact Turkey actually asked it from US many times before starting operations against them which was ofc forgotten again! However with even it's commander being a PKK terrorist i guess it is extremely unlikely they can cut ties or could be even called seperate organizations...
PS: There aren't 30-40 million Kurdish people living Kurdistan, for example over 12 million Kurdish people out of Turkey's around 18 million Kurdish minority live in WESTERN Turkey not in Kurdistan. While the biggest Kurdish city in the world isn't Erbil, Sanadaj or Diyarbakır rather ISTANBUL with 3 million Kurdish population! They could at least research about populations properly but nope..
@@ggoddkkiller1342 Turkish ultranationalist spotted.
I see you and literally dozens of other commenters I recognize from other Kurdish videos spreading more anti Kurdish propaganda, go get a life.
Thanks for this interesting Video
Im a kurd and even though we were just being brutally treated, we didnt help ourselved for being and having very politically naive leaders and parties who didnt know how to play the game, that could have saved thousands of lives... They scored too many own goals for being frankly either just stupid or very clingy to power
You have to admit that it is near impossible to work with a communist government when sharing power. Their issues were understandable.
It's not easy when we are dealing with 4 brutal neighbours. Don't compare our struggle with others
@@bijikurdistanss He didn't compare it "with others" he literally only talked about Kurdish leaders being dimwitted and shortsighted. They're always 50 years behind the global order. Never prepared, never united.
@@bijikurdistanss why follow nationalism path like your neighbour?did great leader like mehmed/salahudin play the nationalist card ?
@namisieiieiriioiddio who is mehmed? No salahuddin didn't play the nationalism card. However, there are over 20 arab countries in which Islam is against nationalism. But what's your point? Shouldn't kurds have a nation?