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Kurdish nationalism (Kurdish: کوردایەتی, romanized: Kurdayetî, lit. 'Kurdishness or Kurdism') is a nationalist political movement which asserts that Kurds are a nation and espouses the creation of an independent Kurdistan from Iran , Iraq , Syria , and Turkey .
Some Kurdish nationalist groups agitated for secession, others for autonomy. During the First World War, while some Kurdish nationalists were working with the British and Russian enemy powers, Kurdish tribal forces were fighting alongside Ottoman troops on the Russian front. Deaths and displacements occurred on a large scale among Kurdish ...
The first modern Kurdish nationalist movement emerged in 1880 with an uprising led by a Kurdish landowner and head of the powerful Shemdinan family, Sheik Ubeydullah, who demanded political autonomy or outright independence for Kurds as well as the recognition of a Kurdistan state without interference from Turkish or Persian authorities. [158]
Kurdish nationalism: Xafûr Mexmûrî Kurdistan Conservative Party پارتی پارێزگارانی کوردستان Partî Parêzgaranî Kurdistan: Parêzgaran: Kurdish nationalism Conservatism: Necat Sûrçî Kurdistan Democratic Liberation Movement بزووتنەوەی ڕزگاری دیموکراتی کوردستان
In the same time, a wave of nationalism from the disintegrating Ottoman Empire has partly influenced some Kurdish chiefs in border region, and they posed as Kurdish nationalist leaders. [125] Prior to this, identity in both countries largely relied upon religion i.e. Shia Islam in the particular case of Iran.
Members of the Kurdistan National Congress with Kurdish Democratic Progressive Party representatives in January 2019.. The Kurdistan National Congress (Kurdish: Kongreya Neteweyî ya Kurdistanê, KNC or KNK؛ (Sorani Kurdish: کۆنگرەی نەتەوەییی کوردستان)) is a multi-national platform of Kurdish groups and parties of all tendencies, which aims for the independence of ...
Although elements of Kurdish nationalism were present in this movement, historians agree these were hardly articulate enough to justify a claim that recognition of Kurdish identity was a major issue in Simko's movement. [25] It lacked any kind of administrative organization and Simko was primarily interested in plunder. [25]
Kurdish-Islamic synthesis, [1] [2] or Kurdish-Islamic nationalism (Sorani: کوردایەتیی ئیسلامی; Kurmanji: Kurdayetîya Îslamî), is a form of Kurdish nationalism which is Islamist in nature, unlike mainstream Kurdish nationalism, which is secularist in nature.