Kurdish Autonomy

* The removal of Saddam Hussein and a U.S. backed Iraqi government was considered proof of political stability, especially in the Kurdistan area, which was considered safer than the rest of Iraq.

Rather than fix the numerous problems, the KRG leaders utilize false rhetoric and fictitious scenarios to distract the Kurdish citizens from the struggles of their daily lives. Accordingly, the American public must employ its democratic power to compel the United States into using fiery propaganda and military strength to unite the Kurds and overthrow the KRG leaders. With the completion of the coup and the current officials replaced with active problem-solvers, the Kurds can fulfill their desire: a pillar of strength in a land of

The Young Turks believed to save the declining Ottoman Empire, they needed to stop the increasing power of the minorities and to bring about a sense of unified strength. Their goal could have been achieved relatively peacefully, yet the course they took was one of utter chaos. The Young Turks could have Turkified the Ottoman Empire without getting rid of the Armenians. There were members of the Armenian community, such as the farmers who were “willing to work and represented an important source of Tax for the Treasury. Even if they saw deportation as the only option, only radical political members could have been deported and it did not have to include many or any deaths. The Young Turks wanted to stop increasing minority power, which could have been done if politically motivated minorities were removed. Following that route would not achieve the Young Turks true goal. Instead, they deported all Armenians, even members not involved in “political machinations”. They insured the death of the Armenian people in a way where the blame would not fall on them. The Young Turks had the Armenians deported, followed and killed in remote locations. To ensure they would not be found they tried to convince other nations the deportations were safe. Orders were sent out which warned soldiers to be gentle “for a while” until their usual measures, referred to as “very bloody

The invasion of Iraq was a surprise military invasion without the official act of declaring war. This eventually led to an occupation and the taking of President Saddam Hussein. Saddam Hussein was tried by the new Iraq government and executed. From the start of the US occupation to years later, little had improved in Iraq despite media portrayals and in 2008 Iraq was number five on the Failed States Index. The 2003 Iraqi war symbolizes an international event that created a type of propaganda varying from the media broadcasted in previous wars. It also represents a defining moment in US history for its public relations campaigns. Even from the beginning of the war, the United States already labeled the event as “Operation Iraqi Freedom.”

The 2003 U.S. led invasion removed Saddam Hussein, an authoritarian from the Sunni minority who governed over a Shia-majority country. After the American invasion, Phase IV, the occupation of Iraq was established to aid Iraq in developing a new democratic regime. Iraqi inhabitants were strongly opposed to having American forces rehabilitate their country, especially after Operation Peninsula Strike. The operation involved the U.S. troops pursuing members of the Fedayeen Saddam militia, an aggressive power devoted to Hussein alongside high-ranking members of the Baath Party and former Iraqi security agencies. Together policy and actions dictated by the U.S. civil and military agents alongside Iraq’s preexisting social conditions, communitarian

In 1991, a series of uprisings in Iraq turned into multiple rebellions in Northern and Southern Iraq started the “Kurdish War”. Millions of men,women and children were killed by the war. This was a genocide because this behavior resulted in torture devices, chemical

Through its initial actions executed following the invasion, the United States effectively eliminated Iraq’s capacity for the provision of governance, and thus precipitated a collapse of the state. Consequently, this created an environment throughout the country characterized by widespread lawlessness, which further destabilized Iraq and created conditions favorable to the development of an insurgency. Two interlinked policy actions conducted by the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA), the multinational entity designed to serve as Iraq’s transitional government, provoked considerable damage to the state. The first, De-Ba’athification, sought to establish a more progressive Iraqi governance model through the dismissal

Following the creation of Iraq in 1932, the Iraqi government has continued to this day to check any Kurdish advancement in the political spectrum. The Iraqi government uses many tactics to do this including cultural discernment, murder, and genocide (“Prejudice in Iraq” 9). In the 1960s the Iraqi Kurdish Democratic Party (IKDP) led by Mustafa al-Barzani led a failed insurgency against the newly established Ba’ath Party(“Kurd” 4; “Prejudice in Iraq” 10). The repercussions of which resulted in the deaths of sixty thousand people and forced hundreds of thousands to leave their decimated villages. In the mid-1970s another resistance formed that included Iranian support. But after an agreement between Iraq and Iran, the Kurdish opposition crumbled (“Kurd” 4) resulting in over 200,000 Kurds displaced. Iraq also sent captured Kurds to concentration camps and destroyed their villages (Goldman

They endure near daily causalities and recently Ankara has undertaken a bifurcated anti-terror program against the PKK and the IS. Frequent attacks in Turkey by the IS and the PKK has driven Turkey to kill 260 Kurdish militants as of August 1, 2015. The reasoning for these death tolls within a week-long air raid in northern Iraq is due to nine civilian causalities in Turkey and Iraq. "For the peace and security of our people, the fight against terror organi[z]ations will continue without interruption,” as stated by Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu. The PKK’s rebellion for rights and power for Turkey’s Kurdish minority has been ongoing for the past thirty years and has left tens of thousands dead. Though a ceasefire was issued in 2013, Turkey’s Kurdish militants have sought refuge in northern Iraq where the PKK has been tolerated and continue to dodge such attacks. The PKK has been instructed to terminate fire in populated areas. Turkey’s president Erdogan hopes to shut down this “fascist” organization by the end of the year. Turkey’s and Iraq’s goals are to see the Kurds and their parties purged from their

In order to fully interpret the nation of Iraq’s holistic condition during and after the Saddam Era, Social, Political, and Economic factors must be weighed accordingly and in contrast to each other. In order to do this, the span of years leading up to 1989, and

Kurdish forces have been succeeding in the war against ISIL in Syria and Iraq. The Kurds have come together with U.S. troops to finally put an end to the terrorism affecting not only Iraq, but all of the world. With the U.S. troops on their side, the Kurds have gained an incredible amount of weapons that will be a huge surprise to ISIL. Therefore, we may predict that there will be many strenuous battles, but nothing the Kurds can’t take down.

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.

Turkey has been a key player against the PKK. Geography, politics and history have conspired to render 30 million Kurds the largest stateless people in the Middle East. The Government of Turkey has long denied the Kurdish population, located largely in the southeast, basic political, cultural, and linguistic rights. The government of Turkey has in turn waged an intense campaign to suppress PKK terrorism, targeting active PKK units as well as persons they believe support or sympathize with the PKK. As part of its fight against the PKK, the Government forcibly displaced noncombatants, failed to resolve extra judicial killings, tortured civilians, and abridged freedom of expression. The Turkish government has also managed to burn over 4,000 villages forcing Kurds to flee from their homeland. Finally, the Turkish government estimates that the conflict with the PKK has exacted a high financial drain on the

Over half of the countries in the world are considered democracies, one of which being Turkey. Turkey believes that they are a model of a true democracy while other countries believe that Turkey is very far from being considered a democracy. This has been an ongoing argument amongst many people. If we take in to consideration what it means to be a true democracy, then Turkey would only possess a few of those qualities. If we were to look at the basic structure and elements of a dictatorship, Turkey would fit into majority of them. This is what leads me to believe that Turkey should not be considered a democracy but instead a soft dictatorship. There is a lot of evidence that would prove as to why Turkey should not be considered a democracy including, lack of freedom in many different way, lack of suffrage rights, a long process of trying to become a member of the European Union, high levels of government control, and high military power.

The Kurds have colonized the area of rugged mountains and tall plains at the headwaters of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers for more than two thousand years. They are said to descend from Medes who conquered the Nineveh in 612 B. C. Their traditional form of life is pastoralism and agriculture (Barth 1993). The unsanctioned country of Kurdistan inhabited an area steeped in history; a history, specifically, the bloody chaos, occupation and assimilation. When the Medes (descended from the Aryans) earliest appeared in the area around 1000 B.C. the stage was set for prolonged and strenuous fights for superiority against the bordering Assyrians and Persians. For centuries, the Medes fights against their would-be dwellers until, around 600 B.C (Hansen 2000)., having beaten the Persians; they overcome the Assyrians and established the Median Empire. That Empire covered everyone of what we call at present as Kurdistan. Different tribes existing in the region were not enforced to give up their cultures and obey the rules to their new hosts'. Instead their cultures were taken on and national values were established. In 550 B.C however, the Persians re-emerged as the leading force and from that period onward the area was seldom without divergence (Hansen 2000). Persians, Greeks, Arabs, Armenians, Romans and Byzantines have all the net battles in the area, and the local nation found them driven into the mountains just to give themselves a better option of living. Tribalism became