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Kurdish separatism in Iran [17] or the Kurdish–Iranian conflict [18] [19] is an ongoing, [9] [12] [17] [20] long-running, separatist dispute between the Kurdish opposition in Western Iran and the governments of Iran, [17] lasting since the emergence of Reza Shah Pahlavi in 1918.
In the 1980s, Iran legalized Kurdish-language publishing to quell domestic nationalist sentiment and, during the Iran-Iraq war, even provided monetary support to Iraqi Kurdish separatist groups in an effort to destabilize Iraq. [17] In the 2000s, the Kurdistan Free Life Party (PJAK) formed and has been engaged in a conflict with the Iranian ...
In the recent period of Kurdish history, a crucial point is defining the nature of the rebellions from the end of the 19th and up to the 20th century―from Sheikh Ubaydullah’s revolt to Simko’s (Simitko) mutiny. The overall labelling of these events as manifestations of the Kurdish national-liberation struggle against Turkish or Iranian ...
1967 Kurdish revolt in Iran: Pahlavi Iran: Suppressed April 1974 – 1975 Second Iraqi–Kurdish War: Iraq: Suppressed, the Iraqi government re-establishes control over Kurdistan 1976–1978 PUK insurgency: Iraq: Indecisive, led to the Kurdish rebellion of 1983: 1979 1979 Kurdish rebellion in Iran: Iran: Suppressed 1983–1986 Kurdish rebellion ...
Kurdistan Socialist Democratic Party (Iraq) is founded. 1978 November 25 Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) is founded. [1] 1985 Kurdistan Toilers' Party (Iraq) is splintered off from the Kurdistan Socialist Democratic Party. 1988 Anfal genocide begins. Between 50,000 [2] and 182,000 [3] Kurds are killed by Ba'athist Iraq. 1994 February 6
The Kurdish rebellion began in mid-March, just two months after the Revolution ended, and was one of the most intense Kurdish rebellions in modern Iran. [7] Kurdish groups initially tried to align with Iran's new government in an attempt to emphasize their own Muslim identity and to seek common
1967 Kurdish revolt; 1979 Revolution; Kurdish separatism. 1979 Kurdish rebellion; 1989–1996 KDPI insurgency; Arab separatism in Khuzestan. 1979 Khuzestan rebellion; 1982 Amol uprising; 1999 student protests
In 1919, Kurdish chieftain Simko Shikak started his first Ottoman-backed revolt against the Iranian government. His expeditions resulted in regional plunder and massacres of Assyrians, Armenians, Alevis and even Kurdish tribes. After three years of revolt he was defeated, but in 1924 Reza Khan pardoned him and he returned to Iran from exile. [3]