Kurds Research Paper

My culture is a very unique and old style culture that has lasted for almost three thousand years. It is the Assyrian culture in which it has stayed to the old ways till this day. What we do is very different from normal families like for instance. When we get married the mates for the man go to the fiance´s home and take all her pictures and things indicating that the man has her now. Another cultural practice we do is usually when the man comes to age that he goes to the army with no exception. Our culture usually loves war and we have born into that lifestyle which means i will be going to the army after high school. The women in our culture are usually to obey the men but it's usually the other way around. Our women are very strong and dominant. We always respect our women in our culture. Our food is amazing we always cook new different foods every single day. Our culture is very traditional and very conservative we stick to our old roots and not changing to any other culture. We Assyrians have to stick together so our culture doesn't die off. For us, we usually only marry other Assyrians which means our culture will not die off and will survive the many years to come. Our culture is the only one left from the middle east that is originally from there which means all others are invaders to our homeland. I am the original race of our people from our homeland so i will not mix with others spreading my perfect genetics. That´s what i think with my culture which is fairly

Many contemporaries of that time said that they did not meet a single Armenian who would not know the Turkish language. It just shows how closely the Armenian people were tied to the Ottoman Empire.The Ottoman Empire never renounced the invention of the Great Turan - pan-Turkic state, which was to extend Turkish territories by occupying the Caucasus, North Caucasus, the Crimea, the Volga region, Central Asia up to the Altai and partly Mongolia. The Armenians had always prevented implementation of these plans; in addition, the Armenians had ties with the Russians. Therefore, it was one of the leading aspects to exterminate the Armenians. The plans for the extermination of the Armenian population were developed in October 1911 at a congress of the party "Union and Progress" ( "Ittihad ve Terakki") and took shape in the World War First. In September 1914, at a secret meeting chaired by the Minister of the Interior Talaat Pasha was established the leaders of the Young Turks Nazim, Shakir Behaetdin and Sukru. Nazim claimed; “If we remain satisfied with the sort of local massacres which took place in Adana or elsewhere ...if this purge is not general and final, it will inevitably lead to problems. Therefore, it is absolutely necessary to eliminate the Armenian people in its entirety, so there is no further Armenian on this earth and the very concept of Armenia is extinguished”.The same attitude had other participants in the

Aided by European conflicts and growing nationalism, imperialized people won their autonomy in the 1900s. While this feat represented the will of determined ethnicities, the minimal presence of European powers allowed the uprisings to succeed. Unlike the 1900s, many powerful nations are heavily invested in the state of the Middle East, resulting in a fragile system of alliances that can easily crumble with increasing conflicts. Therefore, although the Iraqi Kurdish people overwhelmingly desire independence, the deterioration of the global ecosystem justifies the need for the United States to support a unified Iraq.

After the interview the Turkish military officials, soldiers and ordinary men sacked Armenian villages and cities and massacred their citizens, many Armenian’s where murdered. As years passed in 1908 a new government came to place overthrowing Sultan Abdul Hamid which was called “young Turks” at first the Armenian’s had hope that things could probably change for them now that they had a different government. But they soon realized that the way these “young Turks” thought was “non- Turks and especially Christian non- Turks were a grave threat to the new state” ( History.com 2010).

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They thought that Turkey should be a Muslim country, they thought people of any other religion were “infidels”, and shouldn’t be considered Turkish. Again, as most genocides start, they started by boycotting establishments being ran by anyone who wasn’t Muslim, and stripping them of their civil liberties. After dehumanizing them, they started the systematic slaughtering of the Greeks, Armenians, and Assyrians. They used many methods to try and exterminate these “infidels” such as, parboiling, mass drowning, death marches, and forced labor until death. These methods are some of the more tame. When the Pontic Greeks, after witnessing what had happened to the armenians before them, knew what was coming. The men escaped to the mountains, the mercenaries that were enlisted to kill them then went after the women and children that stayed within the village. A common form of killing was to bring them to a nearby cave, seal them inside, and either burn them alive or use gas to suffocate them inside. Any of the men who were caught, were thrown, still alive into the furnaces of the ships that the mercenaries were using to travel. As i mentioned before, all crosses on churches were replaced with cresents, that’s not all they did to their churches though. The churches became yet another way to kill off the “infidels”, they stuffed as many greeks inside as they

In the Memoir, young Karnig mentions how the Turks wanted the Armenians to be more like them. Even the priest tells Karnig and other Armenian children that “You are Armenian children, and you will always be Armenian. Whatever happens, do not ever forget your language and your prayers. Do not ever lose faith. God has protected you, and I am sure he will be watching over you in the future,

Imagine what it would be like in the shoes of someone with no country to really call home, no place you belong, of course you would fight for the right to have that place! According to Oweis (2012),“Unlike Iraq, where Kurds rule a semi-autonomous region in the north, Syrian Kurdish leaders say they only want a federal system that would guarantee citizenship, property rights, Kurdish language education and an equitable budget distribution”. The reasons for fighting for their rights aren’t just made by the leaders, like Mustafa, but the people as well. Many could agree that their requests aren’t unreasonable, strengthening their motivation to fight for their rights. And lastly from Oweis (2012): “But only an estimated 6,000 out of 150,000 stateless Kurds have been given nationality and most discriminatory

Throughout the 1960’s, the Ba’ath regime, the Iraqi government, saw the Kurds as a threat simply because they were a different race and culture. The Kurds were an ethnic group of people who originated in the Middle East, now living throughout Western Iraq, Northern Syria and Northern Iran. The Regime saw the Kurds as such a threat that they decided it would be good to attempt to wipe them out completely. To achieve this, they used chemical weapons. This action started a genocide.

While around 1000 BCE the Kush people had been freed from Egypt’s rule, they had also started to rely on themselves more than another country and become more independent. In 590 BCE the Kush people decided to move their capital city to the city of Meroe. Meroe was big into the iron industry which was the cause of its growing city. While trading with some Greeks and Indian merchants, the people of Meroe also traded with their neighbors. The burial grounds for all of the rulers in Meroe were giant pyramids, just like the ones used in Egypt they use to bury their deceased rulers. The Kush people discovered many new things which helped out in today’s modern society. Located next to the Niles River, Meroe was ruled by a monarchy. Being located next

The Al-Anfal genocide ended late in 1988, at around the same time as Iraq's war with Iran. Since then, despite some of the long lasting effects such as reproductive problems thought to be caused by the chemical attacks inflicted upon it, the Kurdistan region of Iraq, currently has a population of about 5.2 million, made up of a combination of kurdish, Assyrian, Arab, Chaldean, Armenian and Turkish people.​

This issue has been with Turkey almost since the foundation of the Turkish State in 1923. The Kurds were promised the creation of an independent state as part of the treaty of Sevres in 1920 but this part of the treaty was never ratified and Turkey has refused to recognize the existence of a separate Kurdish ethnic community within its borders.

Kurdistan is a region that has existed in turmoil and is the “never was” country. The Kurds are the fourth largest ethnic group of the Middle East, numbering between 20 and 25 million. Approximately 15 million live in the regions of Turkey, Iraq, Iran, and Syria, an area they called Kurdistan, yet they do not have a country of their own. Formal attempts to establish such a state were crushed by the larger and more powerful countries in the region after both world wars. When the Ottoman Empire collapsed after World War I, the Kurds were promised their own independent nation under the Treaty of Sevres. In 1923 however, the treaty was broken allowing Turkey to maintain its status and not allowing the Kurdish people to have a nation to call

The majority of Iraqis practice the Muslim religion but there is still a small percentage of Iraqis that practice the Christian religion. For example, every Friday afternoon, Muslims gather at the Mosque to pray (Ghabra 10). On the other hand, for Christians, Sundays are a holy day for prayer

To what extent should the international community support the creation of an independent Kurdish state and why?