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The organization known as Khoybun or in Kurdish Xoybûn (also known as the Kurdish League), or "Independence," was founded by a group of Kurdish intellectuals in Paris in 1918. These intellectuals saw the period following World War I as ripe for organizing a movement aimed at securing a Kurdish nation-state out of the ruins of the recently ...
The Kurdish Islamist parties of Iraqi Kurdistan supported the independence, stating that it was their "national and religious right". [111] Assyrian Democratic Movement: ADM has rejected the Kurdish referendum in the disputed area of the Nineveh Plain and instead calls for an Assyrian self-governed province part of Iraq. [112]
The Kurdish ethnonationalist movement that emerged following World War I and the end of the Ottoman Empire was largely in reaction to the changes taking place in mainstream Turkey, primarily radical secularization which the strongly Muslim Kurds abhorred, centralization of authority which threatened the power of local chieftains and Kurdish ...
HDP supporters celebrating their election result in Istanbul, 8 June 2015. The Kurdish Political Movement or the Kurdish Liberation Movement, [1] [2] refers to the movement that seeks to realize the political demands of Kurdish people living in the geocultural region called Kurdistan [3] in the lands of Turkey, Iraq, Syria and Iran, such as education in their native language, self ...
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The Sheikh Said rebellion was the first large scale rebellion of the Kurdish race movement in Turkey. The main organizer of this rebellion was the Kurdish Independent Society, Azadî . Azadi's intention was to liberate Kurds from Turkish oppression and thus deliver freedom and further, develop their country.
An informal independence referendum for Kurdistan Region was held on 30 January 2005, with final results showing the vast majority of votes, 98.98 per cent, cast in favour of independence. Conducted by the Kurdistan Referendum Movement alongside the Iraqi parliamentary elections and Kurdistan Region elections of 2005, the referendum asked the ...
Pages in category "Kurdistan independence movement" The following 21 pages are in this category, out of 21 total. ... 2017 Kurdistan Region independence referendum; A.