Northern Kurdistan Research Paper

You are Fatima, a middle-aged, middle-class woman in El Nahra, Iraq in 1954. You have met an American woman for the first time in your life, and have come to know her pretty well. But you just cannot understand how she can be happy living according to the American customs she has described to you. Construct Fatima’s argument for why the customs of Iraq, especially as they relate to gender roles and gender relationships, are vastly superior to those of the United States.

The year 1918 brought the simultaneous culmination of both World War One and the Armenian Genocide. With Ottoman defeat and the collapse of the CUP dictatorship, the Allied Powers saw an opportunity to execute punishment and assist the rehabilitation of Armenian survivors. Despite the trial and death sentencing of several organizers of the genocide, no stable attempt was made to properly take the Turkish Government to court and press charges against this crime against humanity. Thousands of culprits were left free to remain in office and within a few months the judicial proceedings were adjourned and prisoners of war were free to be sent home. After WWI, finding the path to world peace distracted the Allies. Organizations were formed, treaties

Kurdish independence would inhibit the development of the Middle East. A priest at St. Joseph's, a church in Erbil, remarks that "[e]ach side is forcing us to choose" a loyalty between Kurds and Arabs (Source A). The stark divide between the

Since a hundred years ago, the discussion over the barbarous actions of the Ottoman Empire murdering and deporting of its Armenian community has come down to one question. Was the viscous acts of the Ottoman Empire considered Genocide or not? This is the real global issue that has been debated for so long throughout the world. While the vast American-Armenian community truly believes the word Genocide should be openly used to describe the massacre that took place a hundred years ago, the United States has not let the word out of their mouth. Many Armenians wonder why the United States choose not to express the G-Word when they know more than a million Armenians were massacred during the final days of the Ottoman Empire.

The Armenian Genocide Ronald Reagan, once said, like the genocide of the Armenians before it, and the genocide of the Cambodians which followed it, the lessons of the Holocaust must never be forgotten. Genocide is the deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation. The ethic group the Ottoman Empire was deporting and killing were Christians. They were forced from their homes and into deportation and massacres from 1915 to 1918, one of the most brutal and traumatizing genocide that we have knowledge of. The Armenian Genocide was the first genocide of the 20th century, after World War 1. It occurred when two million Armenians were living in the Ottoman Empire. For three thousand years, an

Our own government chooses to ignore the facts in order to keep Turkey as one of its alliances. How can an alliance be worth more than a nearly two million lives gone and wasted? The Turkish have intentionally “demolished any remnants of Armenian cultural heritage.”(United Human Rights Council). The Turks have destroyed Armenian art, archives, and books in attempt to cut all ties with Armenian history. In fact, they even went as far as leveling cities to remove any possible trace of the three thousand year old society. Fortunately, the three twisted men who fled the country were later captured, as a result of the Armenians who sought justice. They were later trialed and found guilty. Although it is not celebrated in America, April 24th is the national Armenian Genocide Remembrance

When reminiscing about his grandfather’s - also named Hakob - story, he told us the event in which, “the Turk gendarmes had brought the Armenian deportees, had packed them into that large cave, had shut its entrance and had set fire to it.” Another testimony about the same event came from a man named Martiros Ashekyan. He said that nearly 40,000 people were in that cave when they were burned alive. There was no justified reason for all of these people to die, especially in such horribly violent ways. Although the term “genocide” had not been created while this one was occurring, the word is now widely used and accepted. There is no reason for the Turkish government today, to refuse to own up and admit to their crimes against humanity other than shame and fear of humiliation. With the pressing accusations against them - that have proof - are the Turkish not humiliating themselves more now by acting childish with their denial of these events? They’ve claimed in the past that more Turks died in the massacres occurring for 1915-1918, they’ve said that since there were other small groups of people who ended up being prosecuted who were not Armenian, that the whole

The genocide occurred in different locations considering they were relocated many times but the main war happened in iraqi kurdistan which was a common battle ground so basically the kurds were living in the no mans land which was also a battle zone and had destroyed many homes.

For anything in life, nobody likes being blamed for things they didn’t do. In Turkey, however, regarding the Armenian Genocide, this was not the case. In 1915, there were 2 million Armenians living in the Ottoman Empire. Using World War I as a cover, the Turkish government systematically killed 1.5 million of them (“The Armenian Genocide”). Although systematically killing an entire population is the definition of a genocide, turkey will still not own up to the the word, genocide. Their excuse was that the Armenians were considered an enemy of turkey in the war and so they had to be killed, which did not explain their ruthless killing methods. Yet only recently the world has began recognize the Armenian Genocide and call it what it is.

Sudan is an interesting country in Africa. My dad is from there and I wanted to learn more about it. I chose to research about their politics, like their political parties, geography, like the different landmarks, and the wildlife there, like plants and animals.

The Armenian genocide has several main causes: European meddling in Ottoman internal affairs, nationalism, economic jealousy, and Armenian involvement in the Russian war effort. Though, a lot of the causes are interrelated. For example, nationalism and European meddling go hand in hand. What exactly was the Armenian genocide? Well, the Armenian genocide was a state orchestrated machine of mass-murder and rape of the Armenian people, and several other ethnic groups, of the Ottoman Empire 1915-1923. The Armenians were one of many ethnic groups of the Ottoman Empire, and they had lived in eastern Asia Minor for around three thousand years prior to the atrocity .

Turkey's key internal conflict centers on the role of its large Kurdish minority, ethnically and linguistically distinct, in a state that constitutionally consists of Turks.

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

In recent years, the Iraqi nation has endured a crisis that will forever remain in the hearts and minds of the Middle Eastern culture. However, the outcomes of the War on Iraq will not change the long-lasting and passionate traditions and memories that have been held in the country for decades. One major event that happened in Iraq’s history is that on October 3, 1932 Iraq was established as an independent nation. Iraq has always been a country in which respect and generosity have been highly valued and play an important cultural role in everyday life. Additionally, approximately ninety-five percent of Iraqis are Muslim, and therefore Islam is the official religion of this nation (Gutierrez 1). Furthermore, Iraq is a

Throughout history, the middle east has often been the focus of news reporters. A middle eastern country that has not been exempt from this, is Turkey. Turkey has not only been a focus, but it also has had a very long, complicated history.