Iran's Kurds at the End of the Nineteenth Century

Abstract

    The problem of the Kurds is a good embodiment of the problem of poor planning and demarcation of political borders between countries in the continent of Asia. Hence, the Kurdish became a minority population that preserved its language, creed, customs and nationality in multiple countries, and the Kurdish minority refused to engage and integrate into the host countries. In the hope that it will realize its dream of unity and the establishment of a state for them, after they have all the elements of land, people and leadership available to them. The danger of the Kurdish minority has increased with the increasing neglect of the governments of the countries. Which prompted the Kurds to raise problems and desire to separate from the mother countries.

    The Kurdish uprisings and revolutions, beginning in the early nineteenth century AD, took a turn more closely related to national sentiment. In the beginning, this was not an effort to form a Kurdish state on a national basis, but rather a spontaneous effort to get rid of the hegemony of the Persian eastern neighbor and the Turkish western neighbor on the one hand. But the concept of Kurdish separatism in Iran refers to various events not related to Iran's recent history, led by Kurdish individuals or organizations calling for secession from Iran.