Iraqi Kurdistan

mobilize Kurds. Without Islam, Kurdish nationalism never would have been utilized and become such a formidable, active, and persistent force against its Turkish, Persian, Arab, and British opponents. With the spread of religious orders throughout the Kurdistan region, Sufi Islam flourished, thereby creating an environment hospitable to nationalist indoctrination. The Naqshbandi and Qadiri brotherhoods were the most popular of the orders and possessed major political and social influence. While the two

France; Iraq and Palestine for Britain; Istanbul and the straits for Russia and southwest of Turkey was occupied by Italy. Upon Russia retreat and giving up all claims and according to the collusion of 23 December 1917 between France and Britain, Kurdistan was assigned to Britain under “the English zone” of “influence”. France and Britain also added the ‘C’ zone (the Southern Anatolia) for Italy upon his learning of the agreement. Before the Sykes-Picot, the Constantinople Agreement had been concluded

nationalism, the shaykhs attained immense power during the early 1800s, making them invested agents in an autonomous Kurdish state. Bruinessen postulates that because of the Ottoman Empires declining strength and lack of ability to formally control the Kurdistan regions, religious shaykhs became the intermediary, impartial forces

Culture of the Kurds According to United Kingdom based news syndicate, BBC, in their article entitled, Who are the Kurds?, “Between 25 and 35 million Kurds inhabit the mountainous region straddling the borders of Turkey, Iraq, Syria, Iran and Armenia” (2016). This would make them the fourth largest ethnic group in the Middle East. Although the Kurds adhere to a number of different religions and creeds, they are considered a race of people with a unique history that separate themselves from the

Different Cutlers The Killers and The Darling are the two stories I decided to compare and contrast to the contemporary Kurdistan because they implicitly and explicitly reveal so much about the culture, existed in both US and Russia during late 19th century and early 20th century. The killers was written by Ernest Hemingway and takes place in US during the 1920s, during Prohibition. The story starts when two strike men, who do not behave properly, walk into a lunch-room after several

Family in Kurdistan In this essay, I will be exploring an essential word that can be understood or elucidated in various ways based on three perceptions, which is Family. The word family is defined as “a group consisting of one or two parents, their children and close relations” according to Oxford dictionary. However, the word family is described differently bases on the people’s educational level in Kurdistan. Firstly, among the educated or modernized members of the community family is defined

The Kurdistan Workers’ Party I decided to do my paper on the terrorist organization named “Kurdistan Workers’ party” from what I have read about them they are a very interesting group, but violent. The main reason for their attacks is to form a Kurdistan state within Turkey. Some people apart of this organization feel that Turkey has oppressed their culture. They want to fight Turkish officials to prove their point. The group was started by Abdullah Ocalan, a man who believes in Marxist-lenist ideas

While the Yezidi live mostly in Kurdistan and speak a dialect of Kurdish, they are not to be confused with the Kurdish people. Ethnically, Yezidis are Kurdish but in every other aspect, they are certainly a culture of their own. Primarily, the largest distinction for the Yezidi is their religion. Due to this, the Yezidi people differ from most others in their society because of the differences that their religion leads to. The kinship aspect of Yezidi culture is very distinct and relates to their

“A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.” What is it about this quote from General George S. Patton that some leaders are able to grasp and others cannot? Throughout military history, untold number of plans have been developed and executed with both success and failure. It is not the plan that moves entire Army’s across a land mass or storms a country’s beach head, but the plan that is developed during a split second between rounds cracking over your

Cynthia Enloe’s book titled Nimo’s War, Emma’s War: Making Feminist Sense of the Iraq War allows readers to enter the lives of eight women; four American and four Iraqi, in order to better understand the everyday lives of people, their struggles, and the outcomes of war by using particular stories of women to bring together issues present globally. Enloe wrote this book to analyze war from a feminist perspective. Analyzing war through a feminist lens by way of stories makes understanding the war