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Many Kurds seek to build an autonomous federal state in the post-Hussein era, however, a solution for Kurdish problems in Iraq was not even mentioned in the 2004 UN resolution that established Iraq's interim government. There has also been an influx of national symbols, including the Kurdish flag, a Kurdish hymn, and public recognition of the Kurdish people.
Kurdish populations occupy the territory in and around the Zagros mountains. [14] For example, during the Iran–Iraq War, from 1980 to 1988, Turkey supported one Iraqi Kurdish group over another in order to play the Iraqi Kurds off against Turkey's own rebellious Kurds. They have quasi-official representation in Turkey, Iran, France, Britain, and the United States. After the fall of the regime, the United States government, with the help of ethnic leaders had to confront three issues: the nature of the future Iraqi government, how Shia representation was to be achieved in the government, and how Sunni re-enfranchisement was to be managed. Once assumed to receive full independence via the Treaty of Sèvres, Iraqi Kurds have experienced a recent and troubled history of betrayal, oppression, and genocide. They are one of the largest ethnic groups in the world that do not have a state of their own. A close look at the most influential Kurdish groups in the Middle East spread over Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Iran.
After this normalization process, a census would talk place and the populous would choose to be governed by either the KRG or Baghdad.
[14] Turkish Kurds have also come to an agreement with the Turkish government. Though this has developed a sense of pride and definition across political boundaries, it reveals a less promising scenario of Kurdish statehood. The Kurdish people within Iraq have grappled with various political statuses over their history. [14] After the independence referendum of 2017 the relations between Turkey and political parties in the KRG cooled down. [15] The three phases that were going to aid this process were normalization, census, and referendum. So the KDP began an insurgency against the Government in Baghdad in 1961. Between 25 and 35 million Kurds live in Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Iran. Since the capture of their leader Abdullah Ocalan in 1999, Kurds have limited their activism to fighting for cultural, social and educational rights within the state of Turkey. The Kurds of south-east Turkey cheering the Peshmerga convoy as it passes are of course hoping they will save their fellow Kurds in Kobane. Kurdish belongs to the Iranian language group and is rooted in the Indo-European family of languages. The reason for our reticence was that it was all too complicated. [5] Arabs applied the name "Kurds" to the people of the mountains after they had conquered and Islamicized the region.
[12], After the Gulf War and an unsuccessful Kurdish uprising in 1991, Kurds fled back to the mountains to seek refuge from the Hussein regime. They were able to manage local governments, establish free and active Kurdish political parties, and institutionalize a Kurdish parliament. Most Yazidi traditions are transmitted orally rather than through written text, making it difficult to source many Yazidi origins. [8] In the year 1958 Abdul Karim Qasim made a coup against the British and the Republic of Iraq was established.
Nationalism was also hindered by divisions of tribes, languages, and geography that prevented the Kurdish people from identifying completely as one unit. [15] Kifri, annexed to the Diyala governorate in 1976 was to be reattached, although it had been under Kurdish control since 1991.