Why Isn't Kurdistan A Country? | Kurdish History

[@HikmaHistory]

Will Kurdistan ever become a fully realised State? Modern History Playlist: kzbin.info/aero/PLiPhmAD3I2Jz6goEJlQ1zh6KkbeBWZ2pP

[@papazataklaattiranimam]

I hope not

[@HikmaHistory]

@wulpurgis Haha that's such a Canadian thing to say!

[@satyr1349]

Hopefully one day in a stable peaceful way (if that's ever even possible). Thank you for the history, I thought I knew most if it but you added some events (the significance of 1920 for instance) which I was unaware of.

[@McVaySwifty]

I think it will happen in the next 20 years, as the local Kurdish government's authority grows in northern Iraq and it becomes more and more difficult for the Iraqi government to hold on to power there. Once they declare an independent state, I think it will fuel Kurdish nationalism further and Kurds will emigrate there from Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey to build it up as the promised homeland.

[@omara.s9461]

@wulpurgis as a Canadian focus on the reimbursement of black and indigenous people before you get involved in another Oriental fantasy

[@CivilWarWeekByWeek]

The history of the Kurds are just tragedies after tragedies

[@UnknownName7950]

Yes Saladin was following Sunni Islam (religion), but he was a kurd (ethnicity). Those 2 arent correlated, and yes the modern history of the kurds is the rough part, once the idea of nation states became a thing,l.

[@easytiger6570]

More like the history of Middle East

[@powasjington4262]

Basically u can say that about any groups at some point English, French etc. Its kind of a matter of perspective too. Being Kurdish is a triumph in itself.

[@huntermosely7420]

@@powasjington4262 is it ?

[@OfficialUKGov]

@@huntermosely7420 It is indeed a triumph 💪

[@abdulbasetaziz3829]

As a Kurd, that was one of the most representative videos about Kurds and Kurdistan in a while. Thanks

[@grahamt5924]

Sorry to hear whats happened to your ethnic group

[@bibhuprasadkaran8674]

What is yr ancient religeon before you convert islam

[@ferhatdemir3061]

@@grahamt5924 thanks brodher

[@grahamt5924]

@Ferhat Demir Every group should have the right to self-determination. One day, hopefully, they get that right.

[@andycockrum1212]

I apologize in advance if the US abandons the Kurds in order for Turkey to vote yes on allowing Sweden and Finland into NATO. Y’all are our best allies in the Middle East and the Kurdish people deserve better treatment and recognition than the US government will provide them

[@willh1970]

As an Irish guy who has lived in Kurdustan for nearly 5 years I (think) I can see the plus and minus of their struggle. But regardless of what that is they should continue. Their day will come - tiocfaidh ár lá

[@nagihangot6133]

Your neighbour nations were shooting down old women and young people in the streets a few decades ago though now you are friends, but your government considered and refused to send Kurds armaments against ISIS and other Western plots.

[@vagabondo879]

That stan you mentioned I can't see it in the world's map it looks like it doesn't exist on the world's map

[@LeixWUxLong]

@@vagabondo879 Look harder you will find.

[@vagabondo879]

@@LeixWUxLong you are very funny

[@hellohelloington9442]

@@vagabondo879 Joke's on you, the Kurdish autonomy in Iraq is officially recognised as an autonomy by the UN and /can/ be found on the world map. There's plenty of places that should be countries that aren't. Ignorance of that with the intention of pissing people off - Kurds are notoriously nationalistic, like everyone else in the region (though particularly Kurds and Turks) - won't get you anywhere, and just make you look like an idiot. Just leave them alone bro, it doesn't matter if it's on the map or not. [Some of] the countries that are on the map can barely control them anyway, so it may as well be.

[@kaza8742]

Im not a Kurd im a british Bangali May Allah always bless the people of Kurdistan one of the nicest greatest nation living today such a kind beautiful nation. Love the Kurds always they can be a real brother a real friends one of the most nicest people if not the nicest people in the world.

[@maxbee6648]

Haha

[@winner3733]

thanks brother

[@AudioDohm]

My mother recently visited Kurdistan from America and won't stop telling me how kind and loving the Kurdish people are. I really hope they can gain their own nation soon.

[@haneef4189]

As nice as Kurds are, Kurdistan would just become another Afghanistan. It would not be able to trade, since it would be surrounded on all sides by hostile nations. Therefore it would be economically weak, unstable and a hotspot for terrorists

[@aqwsderxz]

​@@AudioDohmwe are so proud of that with usa help but we are so sad that we couldnt unite to establish our country just cos ataturk rather genocide them

[@shimaltoori6922]

Thanks fortelling our history. Appreciate it man. God bless everybody.

[@ProfessionalHater064]

Im American, but my heart goes out to the Kurds. Very genuine and brave people with a very tragic history. Every Kurdish person I have met treated me like one of their own. I truly hope one day they can have theyre own nation and live in peace.

[@Mikt12.]

It’s very obvious your an American that doesn’t know shit about the history of the region Kurdistan will never exist until people talk about the truth. Kurdistan includes stolen land that the Kurds stole and genocided from the Armenians and Assyrians until this issues gets talked about and solved an independent Kurdistan will never ever exist. For example what you could do is give western Armenia to Armenian and let the Armenians return to their homeland and if the Kurds want to they can stay or go down to Kurdistan. Same with Assyria and the other Christians you could have a Christian state that occupies the Christians homeland and you can let the Chaldeans Assyrians and syriacs return and the Kurds can stay or go to Kurdistan but until this is talked about Kurdistan will not work.

[@ShehuStebe]

lol, that title made me think this was going to be a different type of video; but what I ended up with was way better, good job.

[@HikmaHistory]

Haha thanks

[@ariali9831]

"Kurds have never had more autonomy as they do now." 14:16 This is not true. Before the the empires of Ottoman and Qajar (in Iran) dynasties started to further centralise their rules, Kurds have had countless semi-autonomous states for centuries (lookup Mukriyan, Ardalan, Botan, Baban, Soran, etc.).

[@aqwsderxz]

yet they tried to make us go existed and hate us for no appernt reason

[@HsN.DymZ.3501]

Kardeşim sen özerklikden mi bahsediyorsun Tarihin İlk Hint-Avrupa İmparatorluğu MED İmparatorluğu Kürt hatta yazıyı icat eden ve Medeniyetin beşiği olarak bilinen SÜMER(300 ADAM) Lar bile 100 de 90 Kürt bilgin Olsun..!

[@khashayar8989]

Kurdestan always been part of Iran Every part of it In every nation Since 3000 yrs back We never Been separated from Iran Never will ...

[@Dirok7277]

Thanks man! you told our history to everyone very well, that's right we are still fighting for our rights and freedom, i'm so hopeful one day we'll get what we fight for✌

[@sjonbaksteen7113]

One day your all dead

[@Dirok7277]

@@sjonbaksteen7113 don't worry about it, we all gonna die

[@ST-tq3lm]

✔Love Kürdistan Love kurdish people Greetings from Azerbaijan 🇦🇿 ❤ 🇹🇯 ✔ 👐

[@cleveridiot7470]

Love Turkiye ,greetings from Azerbaijan👍🏻

[@Jitmz]

Hahahah fake🇹🇷🇦🇿🦾

[@agostocobain2729]

@@Jitmz why where r you from?

[@hunter86140]

🇦🇿💩💩💩

[@kimkardashiansdaddy2744]

troll from iran

[@albertkastrati8084]

I am Albanian and my opinion about a state of Kurdistan is possible, because we have experience from Kosovo, which is much smaller, below 2 million, Kurdistan is 20 times bigger, the concentration is to create an agreement with Turkey in one way or in another way, then Kurdistan gains independence, because as far as other countries are concerned, it is easier and more accessible - I wish for an independent student that it is right!

[@valtontony826]

exactly what I thought Albanian brother

[@kimkardashiansdaddy2744]

but turkey isnt serbia :) dont compare us with serbians

[@mequeen2608]

@@kimkardashiansdaddy2744yes because turkey is more dictator insha allah one day kardoghan (dictator government) will be destroyed like sadam hussen god see us

[@ManBan-gj9hy]

@@kimkardashiansdaddy2744 türks are götverenler while serbs are amverenler. fark vardır. büyük birisi...

[@Tv.Charlie]

There is a Turkish proverb.!!! Taken with blood, given with blood.

[@AdolfHitler-ki2ej]

After all that, including now, nothing has stopped us from calling ourselves Kurds, we are always proud of our nation's culture, History, Language, and We never bend the knee to those who don't want us, and we never will, God willing, we'll be an independent Country and one of the best ones

[@BawerOmer]

Thank you for the speech Adolf Hitler.

[@AdolfHitler-ki2ej]

@@BawerOmer Dlit

[@wissamabdullah5750]

@@BawerOmer 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 omg im dead

[@ezabule5269]

Kurdistan isn't real. Deal with it.

[@MujahidClick2000]

Insha'Allah

[@HistoryOfRevolutions]

"If you want an enemy, the soul is sufficient. If you want advice, death is sufficient" -Said Nursi (Kurdish Islamic scholar)

[@mazlumgoncu4585]

That was back in time, now kurds have been changed by the Ataturk program that aimed to modernise the kurds, now they fight for demoracy and western laws like dogs.

[@gardyal-kurdi2081]

@@mazlumgoncu4585 first of all don't genaralize it on all the kurd's and don't be disrespectful by naming all the kurds as dogs because that is just blind racism and ignorance, do your homework and study about kurdish people and history to know them better, we don't deny that there are militias like pkk and ypg and alot more even the kurdish government can't represent the islamic roots and history of kurd in it's true form in conclusion there are good and bad every where so don't you dare calling anyone dogs because you might be like them too.

[@mazlumgoncu4585]

@@gardyal-kurdi2081 First of all, i don't know how strong your english is. I didn't say that all kurds are dogs, i said those who fight for democracy and western values is. I am a kurd myself from Konya, so don't put things in my mouth. You either are on the side of Noor u Din, Imad u Din, Salahadiin Eyubi, Sheikh Said, Sheikh Said Nursi or you are on the side of Øcalan and Baus Erdal. Either you fight for islam or you fight against islam. Don't defend the kurds who support YPG and PKK rather be against them.

[@killer-_-bthemarkedwarrior2562]

@@mazlumgoncu4585 No matter what... I as a Kurd, will never accept Western Culture in My Heartland. I'll actually fight against it, no cap.

[@SOLO.SHAD0W-HAWK]

@@mazlumgoncu4585 you are either a Muslim or against Islam. This is why Turkey won over kurdustan in making a country.

[@mayer14474]

As an Iranian, I want to offer my sympathy on behalf of the vast majority of Iranians to all Kurds in the world, especially to the families that lost their loved ones fighting for freedom. Your pain is ours, too. The people of Iran rose up in support of our beloved Kurdish brothers and sisters who started fighting against the opressive Islamic Republic regime in Iran. We, the people of Iran, are not with the government of our country, instead we are with you, our true brothers and sisters. Mahsa Jina Amini is the symbol of our movement to achieve freedom and democracy. We are proud of you! Woman, Life, freedom!

[@sherzadharris5320]

❤️❤️

[@alemumolla7350]

If you are iranian you have to know evil act of western .if you are not comfortable for the govnt .first you have to separate got from national integrity ..I think separationist are too selfish .please stand for your country. Am ethiopian

[@mayer14474]

@@alemumolla7350 Iranian Kurds are not separatists. we love them!

[@alemumolla7350]

@@mayer14474 good ..I know and impressed about ancient persian in which kurds part of its civilization .I am orthodox Christian but half of my family are sufi Muslim. My country ethiopia was shelter of muhamed messenger but still evil Arab country try to disentegrat by religion in1950 but people were cultured with resection of each religion but lastly try by dividing ethinicity ,they successfully separat Eritrea. That is why I criticize you have experianc

[@alemumolla7350]

@@mayer14474 resection...respect

[@khalilmurad7089]

Thank you for covering our history so that people know what we went through and so that we ourselves understand our history and never forget what massacres we’ve gotten through.

[@mayer14474]

As an Iranian, I want to offer my sympathy on behalf of the vast majority of Iranians to you and especially to the families that lost their loved ones. Your pain is ours, too. The people of Iran rose up in support of our beloved Kurdish brothers and sisters who started fighting against the opressive Islamic Republic regime in Iran. We, the people of Iran, are not with the government of our country, instead we are with you, our true brothers and systers. Mahsa Jina Amini is the symbol of our movement to achieve freedom and democracy. We are proud of you! Woman, Life, freedom! 💚🦁❤ + ❤☀💚

[@blueseahorse6846]

I am also happy they brought it up. May Kurdistan rise so that our beloved Kurdish people can live in peace free from oppression and misery. Serkewtin bo Kurd!

[@rajababbasov8666]

I am Meskhetian Turk our ancestors were forced out of our homes in Georgia 🇬🇪 by Stalin many of our people died when being sent to central Asia till this day it is very hard for us to go to our homeland because now there are allot of Georgians and armenians live in our region we dont hate them but they hate us because of turkey, I stand with the Kurdish people we have many people that were Kurdish married to our people. Our brothers and sisters deserve to have their homeland, we are muslims we don't fight each other.

[@user-ky7jx1cr5k]

I'm Kurdish and my uncle is married to the sweetest Turkish woman, I love her dearly.

[@rajababbasov8666]

@H this stupid war needs to stop and no Muslim should fight each other anywhere we are Muslims

[@hellohelloington9442]

History in and around the Middle East in recent years is just horrible. I'm a Pomak myself, and we don't even have a national identity or language left other than Turkish or Bulgarian. I really do hope that everyone will be able to figure out their problems. Soon enough, it will happen, and it's just a matter of time, but the bloodshed just doesn't need to go on any longer like it is today. If people were more able to sort these problems out without fighting, the world would be a much better place right now.

[@ssoruyorum]

turkiyedegil azerbaycan yuzunden, onlar savasiyor

[@rajababbasov8666]

@soruvetespit it is turkey dipshit you don't know history. Turkey had a president who almost made peace with the kurdish people giving them more rights and having them be like a republic nation within turkey but yall killed him. Just like yall even go after kurfish actors and singers. Kurdish people are not turkic and nor am I I'm actually more georgian and armenian by blood I found out after doing a dna test.

[@Dadwar_Real]

thank you for your documentation on the kurds, the more people that know of us the better, we have a better chance of becoming a state when lots of people know of us and our struggles through the years.

[@LeixWUxLong]

As a Kurdistani Muslim, I commend you for this video. Hopefully the Ummah will have a better view of things. Jazakallahu khair!

[@HikmaHistory]

Thank you, need to make more Kurdish content but I'm struggling with ideas...

[@continuity9407]

@@HikmaHistory My brother is not official, but I had dozens of Kurdish friends and what they said was really scary, he said that millions of Kurds were killed for no reason and they have extensive history, they established dozens of states. I want you to prepare more videos.

[@agostocobain2729]

@@HikmaHistory Salam Alaykum brother, my mom is Kurd from Iran and this means a lot to me thank you

[@continuity9407]

@zerdusttorunu1884 na

[@continuity9407]

@zerdusttorunu1884 sen ne isen oyum

[@HuguesBurrows]

I very much appreciate and enjoy your very well documented and narrated documentaries; keep it up :)

[@margaritasantolis7266]

Kurdistan is mentioned also in ancient greek texts , Alexander the Great passed from there Kurdistan Azad greetings from Greece

[@almazchati4178]

Did you get a postcard from him? Most of his adventures is probably fiction.

[@mikem8211]

​@almazchati4178 No but I got a postcode from Thessaloniki from Attaturks home town which is now in Greece 😂

[@almazchati4178]

@@mikem8211 That is fiction too. You will lose all that when the first opportunity.arises.

[@SomkanMuhasebe]

He lost almost half of his army at Zagros mountains

[@nabilalhami1681]

Thanks for the video. I did know about situation of Kurdish people in Turkey, but didn't know much about their situation in Iraq, Iran and Syria.

[@zainkhalil21]

They are cousins of the Persians.. and the Arabs of Iraq and Syria loved them until the 1940s when they decided to betray salahuldins legacy and split apart their respective states even more than the current divisions created by the French and British. All the modern nation states in the Middle East are fake but instead of trying to unite them you support splitting them up even further 🤡

[@donnie27brasco]

Three basic things every Westerner should know about The Kurds: 1- They are dominated by the Ultra nationalists, (Just like Ukrainians) and believes in the blood purity and the Aryan race (I’m not kidding). 2- They DON’T belong to the region (Turkey, Syria, Iraq); they came in big waves only in the 16 century from Iran, and in the 18 -19 centuries, they committed some of the most horrible, unpunished massacres and mass genocide, mass deportation against Armenians, Greeks and other Christians in north Iraq, south Turkey. The Kurds still persecuting and driving out the non Kurds from Kurdistan, northern Iraq. 3-They came to Northern, East Northern Syria only in the early 20 century, as refugees from Turkey, (After they participated passionately in the mass massacres and mass deportation of Christians) and now they want, with the help of the USA, to create a country for them, on the land of the other people. Keep these two key words about The Kurds in your mind: The Ultra nationalism, The colonialism. ======== To know more about Kurds, read about: *The mass massacres and mass deportation of Assyrian-Syriac Christians, massacres known as "Sayfo". *The mass massacres and mass deportation of the Armenian people in Turkey, massacres known as "the Armenian genocide". *The early massacres against Armenians and Assyrians in the Ottoman Empire in the mid-1890s, known as "The Hamidian massacres". Note that all these horrible massacres still unpunished, not apologized for, and the mass graves scattered all over Kurdistan and Turkey still not excavated yet, to estimate the number of victims, identify them, and give them an honorable burial (many of them women who have been buried naked after being raped).

[@yourkingorginal3286]

Most of kurds in turkiye dont want to seperate

[@anarchorphan]

​@@yourkingorginal3286 lol thats a bullshit.

[@bilalabawi9064]

Love and respect to the Kurds from an Afghan ❤

[@Berxwedan.]

Thanks that means a lot to me as a Kurd, May your country become better place brother❤💚💛

[@ForgottenPerspective]

Good comprehensive video, thank you.

[@HikmaHistory]

Thank you!

[@HaythamTrueheartH]

Thank you! My best friend is Kurdish. I am Indigenous Melanesian and was raised with Aboriginal Australians. I love Kurdish people and their culture. My dream is to marry a Kurdish woman and have mixed children. I am a poet and my favourite poet is the late great Sherko Bekas. Thank you! Chawnniii Bashhhiiii.

[@Mikt12.]

You know nothing Kurdistan will never exist until people talk about the truth. Kurdistan includes stolen land that the Kurds stole and genocided from the Armenians and Assyrians until this issues gets talked about and solved an independent Kurdistan will never ever exist. For example what you could do is give western Armenia to Armenian and let the Armenians return to their homeland and if the Kurds want to they can stay or go down to Kurdistan. Same with Assyria and the other Christians you could have a Christian state that occupies the Christians homeland and you can let the Chaldeans Assyrians and syriacs return and the Kurds can stay or go to Kurdistan but until this is talked about Kurdistan will not work.

[@Sahm.tattoo]

@@Mikt12.Turk spotted. 🤡 read history. Kurds always lived in the Kurdistan region. Look at old maps before ww1, every single one of them have KURDISTAN written on them. Heck even the first known civilizations started in the Kurdish and Iraq region, the ancient Sumerians and Mesopotamia.

[@GeDiceMan]

Kurdistan: Being split between multiple powers suck! Poland: Been there...

[@FlammablePunch]

That's why I think it's possible lol

[@straightforward4366]

Kurds are claiming assyrian lands

[@straightforward4366]

@@FlammablePunch not aslong as the original owner still live there like the assyrians

[@FlammablePunch]

@MasterOfNothing lol what? Idea of nation states is literally new thing lot countries had different names before adopting nation state concept

[@OfficialUKGov]

@@straightforward4366 nah

[@NgaiNing]

I am from Myanmar Chin state but I respect Kurds for their fight for freedom. I respect Kurds for their fight against ISIS

[@AbuShivaToyib]

Is the Myanmar Chin from the Chinese ethnicity?

[@aldebaranalazar6529]

That war against isis was a game for the recconision of the Kurdish state. Now isis and pyd work together.

[@yurichtube1162]

Thanks for the video!

[@khashayarbarani9982]

For any foreigners watching I am from Iran and I cannot put Kurdish people courage in words! We are so proud of them and we are so lucky to have these brave kind and beautiful people! قلب همه ایران برات می تپه هموطن کرد فرهنگ زیبات! شجاعتت و تاریخت در قلب تاریخ ۷۰۰۰ ساله ایرانه!

[@agostocobain2729]

My mom family is from Bukan and Sanandaj and my dads from Tabriz (Azeri) and all Kurds are Iranians even if that hate me saying this…

[@daviroza4700]

Now give them independence

[@bebrave7303]

The origin of kurds and persians are the same so there are plenty of people called kurd-persian cousins same face same behavior same sound I admit that kurds and persians are cousins And that's because they changed the name of persia to iran because they said there is iranian nation that lives in the country kurds and persians so the name should include both of them so we can say the closest nations in the middle east are kurds with persians

[@arash_gh-20]

​@@daviroza4700 Iran is also the homeland of the Kurds

[@khashayar8989]

​@@daviroza4700 Us kurds in Iran like me don't want to separate.. Kurds in Iran No where near in Arabic nations or Turkey Kurdestan name is even Persian Every piece of Kurdestan has always been part of Iran We wish to stay with Iran rather than becoming some small state under America

[@panosboneman6684]

One nation, one independent state. Free Kurdistan

[@Mikt12.]

I can’t with this shit anymore Kurdistan will never exist until people talk about the truth. Kurdistan includes stolen land that the Kurds stole and genocided from the Armenians and Assyrians until this issues gets talked about and solved an independent Kurdistan will never ever exist. For example what you could do is give western Armenia to Armenian and let the Armenians return to their homeland and if the Kurds want to they can stay or go down to Kurdistan. Same with Assyria and the other Christians you could have a Christian state that occupies the Christians homeland and you can let the Chaldeans Assyrians and syriacs return and the Kurds can stay or go to Kurdistan but until this is talked about Kurdistan will not work.

[@Kurama1907]

Love Kurds, greeting from Turkiye 🇹🇷

[@agostocobain2729]

Pshh yeah right you do

[@aqwsderxz]

🤮🤢

[@Shkar_gamer]

​@@ifyagotajaburadumsheep1752kurd is kurd not turk

[@Berxwedan.]

@@ifyagotajaburadumsheep1752it’s Kurd not Turk, ne mutlu kurdm dieyene.

[@Dr-Ekmek]

@@Berxwedan.We are Turkish Kurds of Turkiye, we’ll remain united.

[@GreeKurdChannelMilan]

Kurds have throughout history fought for justice and independence. They've been occupied and subjected to genocidal policies of all kinds and mistreated. An independent Kurdistan is not a gift that the world should give to the Kurds but a gift the Kurds will give to the world for stability!

[@IDeserveToGetTortured]

stability was good one, lol.

[@roshnaguven3802]

Thank you! ❤❤❤

[@Xirsiev]

Kurdistan and the Somalis share a tragic similarity in how colonial imperialism cruelly divided their unity. The Somali people were split into five parts, with two regions handed over to other nations, while Djibouti [🇩🇯] achieved independence separately, and only two parts united to form Somalia [🇸🇴]. Kurdistan, on the other hand, was divided across four countries. Undoubtedly, their plight is even more severe than ours. However, hope is not lost. One day, by the will of Allah, both will see their unity restored. Insha'Allah. Salam Kurdis people.!

[@Horizon3165]

It’s important to note that Assyrians who are the indigenous people of Mesopotamia known as today’s Iraq, shared the same region with Kurds in Iraq. They too, were not recognized to establish their own autonomous state as well. There are more historical facts for the untold history of the region which hopefully will be covered for the benefits of “ people of no nations.” Thanks for the informative video.

[@mrworldwide3679]

@türk oğlan Based on what information? Your fantasy?

[@mrworldwide3679]

@türk oğlan Since you make this claim you are the one who is responsible to give the information you base this on. Please do enlight us with you information. Ps: Real International recognized information. Not some local turkic sources. Best regards from Europe

[@blueseahorse6846]

@türk oğlan Getting tiresome, these Turkish nationalist claims. You are just pulling random bullshit. One thing that is true is that your people are originally from central Asia and you came to "Anatolia" relatively late.

[@zozakemin1479]

Kurdish people they have a long history they have there own country Kurdish populations over 70 million but tell me what Assyrian they have nothing anymore maybe one thusnd Assyrian people left in Iraq Kurdish people they are so nice with Assyrian people bye bye

[@mrworldwide3679]

@türk oğlan Guess you have no info for us. So this means your statement was just some racist Bullcrap.

[@omaryrasha7650]

I'm a kurd and i can say this is %100 accurate

[@rohmashah5974]

Hello! I want to ask if Saudi Arabia has done anything to support a Kurdish Independent state?

[@wissamabdullah5750]

@@rohmashah5974 well they're a lil supportive but nun significant like they simply just don't hate them ( im from Kurdistan too ) but they might be future allies if we gain independent 🤞🏿🤞🏿

[@sisaymedia6016]

From Ethiopia the same Stats in AMHARA community people in ethiopia genocide war massacre over 5000+ in Ethiopia oromia region wallga killed par day what is your message in AMHARA peole? The same history kurd.tankyou

[@KurdishDK]

yup

[@kami_180p3]

im kurdish too! and this isn´t "100%" accurate

[@alimafi3840]

I'm from Rojhelatê Kurdistan (Iran's Kurdistan) . We Kurds know ourselves as an Iranian. The history of Iran is the same as our history. We consider ourselves the children of Iran and Aryans. We are from Diaco's generation (he was the first ruler of the Medes in Iran). Wherever there are Kurds, there is Iran. we are fighting against islamic republic an we have the unity in iran with other nations like azeris , baloochis ,.... we love iran . iran is our home and we will take it back from evil mollas . for Woman life freedom ✌ Jin Jîyan Azadî ✌ژن ژیان ئازادی

[@HumbleCaesarB.C.E]

stfw

[@bratwurststattsucuk4517]

@türk oğlan cope mongol

[@mnrmast3744]

You are not children but slave of Iranian mullas . I am baloch I respect you but your ideology of considering yourself Iranian children I'd shameful

[@bratwurststattsucuk4517]

@türk oğlan your mother loves syrian men

[@bryburhan]

U are idiot! And somehow too stupid!

[@rodrigonz18]

12:11 I don't know if you are refering "kurdish presence" by the peshmergas or civil iraqi kurds, but there was no expulsion of any kurdish citizent. What happened was that kurdish civilians got scared to face backlash from shiite militants and then they fleed to KRG, but the majority of them returned in the next days after iraqi troops retook control of Kirkuk. They are free to move to any part of Iraq as they wish, since they are iraqi citizents.

[@HikmaHistory]

I was initially confused by your comment but then I quickly realised, you got a great point. I meant it as the Peshmerga being expelled

[@rodrigonz18]

@@HikmaHistory Thank you for clarifying. Best wishes

[@xelefdev]

This is false, most major cities in the KRG are still overloaded with refugees and migrants from Kurdish regions ruled by the Iraqi government. Kurds in Kirkuk province are routinly harrased and Saddam era rulings are used to strip Kurdish farmers of their land which are then given to shi'ite Arabs.

[@YemeniteYokel]

I love when Westerners complain about a group of people they know nothing about not getting a land they have no connection to to be taken from a people they don’t interact with. Sounds awfully…. colonial

[@krd2brothers]

Thanks for your video about kurdistan

[@Kechouli]

It's an interesting and important Video made very good thank you very much, respect , peace and much love. GBY. Great ❤️ 💛💚✌️❤️🙏👌👍Kurdistan has a great History. Rich culture beautiful language and lovely people.

[@Zamandazmi]

Women life freedom

[@gunaisaleh4671]

No histri,no kountri nothing , bro bad language. Ha ha

[@oxanakramer410]

Biji Kurdistan! ❤️☀️💚

[@hallahalla7376]

Mashallah bro Thank you for talking about us kurds

[@Arian-abbas]

We, Kurds, are Iranians. This means that we have the state of “Iran” .. But the Ottomans occupied western Iran after long wars with the Safavids (1514-1750) and some regions of western Iran came under Ottoman occupation. After the fall of the Ottoman Empire in 1918 and the weakness of the Iranian government, it was unable to regain its lands. France and Britain divided the Iranian parts into new countries "Iraq, Syria and Turkey", so the Iranian Kurds remained in these countries, and from the ignorance of our Kurds and the Arabs about the history of the events, they thought that the Kurds are a separate nationality, and this is a historical mistake, and you were also deceived by these matters because you made a video before you understood and knew what is the real story.

[@tkm238-d4r]

Good points that you made. A person who has zero knowledge of Kurdish and Persian will be able to hear the similarity just by listening to speakers of these languages. Meanwhile, Arabic and Turkish sound different. Geographically and historically, the macro region is likely to be more stable if most of the Kurdish inhabited zones are part of Iran. Similar situation in Balochistan and the wider Herat region of Afghanistan.

[@Arian-abbas]

@@tkm238-d4r Yes

[@ChrisRAHE-i6r]

نحن كورد،،،وليسى إيرانيون مع تمنياتي الخير لكل شعوب العالم

[@braderart4449]

🇹🇯🇹🇯🇹🇯I Love you KÜRDİSTAN. YOU ARE BEATİFUL🇹🇯🇹🇯🇹🇯

[@tsg9874]

Biji Kurd u Kurdistan, we will not be stopped !!

[@albashir7140]

That's a great report thank you

[@cyclonicleo]

I live with hope that the Kurds will have a nation state to call their own.

[@papazataklaattiranimam]

Kurdish belongs to the Indo-European family. It is widely spoken in Kurdistan, a region that forms part of a number of countries (Iraq, Iran, Turkey, Syria, Armenia and Georgia). There are a number of dialects (such as Sorani, Kurmanji, Gorani, etc.) but the main two dialects of modern literary Kurdish are Kurmanji and Sorani. Kurmanji and Sorani are not mutually intelligible; they differ from each other at basic structural levels as well as in vocabulary and idioms. For instance, unlike Kurmanji, Sorani has no future tense in the present habitual or progressive verb (Thackston 2006). Sorani, to date, is the second official language of Iraq, and it is spoken by approximately 11 million Kurds scattered mainly across Northern Iraq and Western Iran.

[@subhan8090]

Vay

[@behiran2252]

Kurds iranic people..surani and kurmanji Iranian people

[@yonj3269]

The real Kurdistan in Iran, northern Iraq and Syria is for the Assyrians

[@History1585]

@@behiran2252 yes

[@History1585]

We, Kurds, are Iranians. This means that we have the state of “Iran” .. But the Ottomans occupied western Iran after long wars with the Safavids (1514-1750) and some regions of western Iran came under Ottoman occupation. After the fall of the Ottoman Empire in 1918 and the weakness of the Iranian government, it was unable to regain its lands. France and Britain divided the Iranian parts into new countries "Iraq, Syria and Turkey", so the Iranian Kurds remained in these countries, and from the ignorance of our Kurds and the Arabs about the history of the events, they thought that the Kurds are a separate nationality, and this is a historical mistake, and you were also deceived by these matters because you made a video before you understood and knew what the real story.

[@gerceginpesinde9742]

LOVE YOU KURDİSTAN

[@wissamabdullah5750]

U Turkish???

[@gerceginpesinde9742]

@MasterOfNothing Sen asimile olmuş bir devşirmeysen ben ne yapayım ?

[@wissamabdullah5750]

@MasterOfNothing bro ion talk Turkish

[@maperakotchigok1983]

This is a good lesson for majority group who rules without unity among themselves and community Dinka in south sudan will be like I prophecies it

[@ThongkholunHaokip2024]

The Kuki Zo in Manipur India & Kurdish have similar story. Chin, Kuki & Mizo are the same ethnic group divided into 3 countries by the British. Bangladesh, India & Burma. May God fulfilled the dreams of the Kurdish people.

[@SadaqatAli-ei5rd]

I love Kurdish Muslim brothers and kurdistan one of innocent suffered Muslims by own Muslim fellows

[@Danadama123]

What if they are Christian you don’t love them 😳💪 . Does Kurd have Christians?

[@betsyfrompikex]

We ain’t all muslims. It’s a race, not a religion.

[@frathajo3467]

Thank you for sharing our story

[@bardia1364]

I'm a Kurd I'm Iranian, always have been and will be, wherever Kurds live it is Iran ❤️

[@reallygoodfood9481]

Kurt's are genetically from INDIA

[@USASPORTSCARDS]

@@reallygoodfood9481 as a Kurd, I can tell you definitively - that’s not true lol. I’ve had many DNA tests and all show me as basically just being Iranian. I cluster closer to Lurs, but basically also very close to Isfahani or Persians of the Zagros.

[@shahin738]

I'm Azeri and I feel the same - our separatists are misguided- one Iran - yek Irane motahed vase hame ❤

[@bardia1364]

@türk oğlan چی میگی اوگوز

[@eddiedehkordi4639]

@@shahin738 have you ever thought about how those separatists are such minority? Yaaaa! That’s why they never have popular support and have to go be others foreign governments’ bitches!

[@unconsciousmarty9393]

Freedom to kurdistan. Love from india

[@mrmr446]

A few years ago I was fortunate enough to attend a local Nowruz celebration, to those attending the greatest threat was clearly Erdogan, who has used the situation for political gain. To say Turkey 'got involved' in the Syrian civil war is quite the understatement.

[@omara.s9461]

Hogwash, Erdoğan is only one part of the puzzle, you could apply that to any regional leader Sisi, Assad, Bin Zayed. The problems is all these reactionaries calling for revolution like your mates in the PKK a terrorist racist organisation don't forget your place.

[@mrmr446]

@@omara.s9461 I was a guest, just saying what I was told by those commemorating Nowruz.

[@mazloumkobani2392]

@@omara.s9461 treat your own dog first. Bozkurtlar, FSA, SNA, Malikshahh, Anwar al-Yaq, Ashab al-Yamin, Ahrar al-Sham.... Bunch of islamic terrorist organisations under the command of Turkey

[@omara.s9461]

@@mazloumkobani2392 I'm not Turkish

[@omara.s9461]

@@mazloumkobani2392 and I'm just stating the obvious you could say the same about any near Eastern ruler why single out Turkey

[@Hermesborugerdian]

As an Iranian I testify to the fact that we look at Kurds as the prime example of an Iranian. Many of the biggest Iranian nationalists were Kurdish proudly. Like you said, Islamic republic, waged a war against all Iranian nationalists regardless of their ethnicity. Otherwise we have always referred to our Kurdish region as Kordestan and always had a province called Kordestan officially, because we realise this is their land and cannot be called anything else, just like any other land that belongs to Iranian ethnicities. Every Iranian New Year (Nowruz) we realise that great connection that our ethnicities have with each other. Even right now you see that we fight Islamic Republic shoulder to shoulder next to each other, regardless of our ethnic backgrounds.

[@abtinshirzadi3195]

Kurdistan is not Iran

[@Hermesborugerdian]

@@abtinshirzadi3195 next time you wanna say that, plz wonder why there are so many Iranians with exactly the same name and last name as yours.

[@abtinshirzadi3195]

@@Hermesborugerdian it doesn't change anything

[@hellohelloington9442]

@@abtinshirzadi3195 Kurdistan may not be Iran, but you can never forget the fact that Kurds themselves historically branched off of the Persians/Iranians. Regardless of how you cut it, the Kurds are really closely related to Iranians in practically every way. Sure, they're not the same, but the similarity is there. Some dialects of Kurdish are pretty similar to Iranian too, to the point you could understand an Iranian while speaking it. It just serves to show exactly what I'm saying here.

[@abtinshirzadi3195]

@@hellohelloington9442 even if what you say is true, it does not matter, we are kurds and we identify as Kurdistani not Irani, we want our own independent land and agency over our destiny.

[@antoniotraub6183]

Great video! Always wanted to learn more about þe Kurds

[@nina_112]

All Kurds are Iranian people who s been separated from their mother land Iran during safavid empire! Their mother land is Iran! They have the same Dna as Iranian (all groups of Iranian people) There is so much misinformation out there! They want to colonized middle East more than they already did in the past just like what they did in Africa Don't believe what you hear right away Always question it!!!

[@OfficialUKGov]

@@nina_112 the Median Empire was Kurdish, so all Persians are Kurdish :troll:

[@HsN.DymZ.3501]

​@@nina_112işin tuhafıda Kürt tarihinin Pers tarihinden daha eski olması 😜

[@loner1562]

as an Iranian, I've talked to many friends who are Kurdish and none ever considered themselves as an independent ethnicity or wanted separation, in fact this is also a very hot topic among Iranians right now in current situation that we're in(keep in mind that the word Iran simply does not represent any ethnicity or power over different ethnicities, that's why Reza shah changed the name of the country to Iran instead of Persia in international affairs and maps). there are parties who claim that they represent the Kurdish community, and they also are very keen on gaining independence, but in reality many Kurdish people in Iran(at least based on what it seems) simply don't agree with them, we've seen Mahsa Amini's father saying that they ARE Iranians not separatists, we've seen one the most heard chants in Kurdish cities(and the whole country) being "we fight, we die, we take Iran back"(from the hands of Mullahs)...

[@abushwarb3528]

Of course Kurds won't just say they want an independent Kurdistan, when u know that you're under the controll of a government that threatens you to hang u if u say that you want a separate country ( what about the republic of Mahabad ?). people used to say that civilian Kurds don't want an independent country or autonomy in Iraq, but this was obviously wrong since the civilians themselves kicked the Iraqi forces out of Kurdistan many times and demanded autonomy or independence, when Kurds gained Autonomy in Iraq, many Kurds ( including the ones from Iran ) came to the region and proudly raised the Kurdish flag

[@loner1562]

@@abushwarb3528 Iraq is not Iran. about the republic of Mahabad? well that's what Comrade Stalin's money can buy right? :) the same happened in Tabriz too, during the same time period shortly after WW2. You know what happened there? when people heard news of the imperial army coming to the province of Azerbayjan, they literally started fighting the separatists with farming tools, they found themselves running for their lives with their tales between their legs...that's why I claim minorities you see on media talking about separation don't represent the entire people of ethnicities. PS: they actually tried to do the same thing when protests started 4months ago with Kurdish people, deceiving their minds into acting for separation, but then they saw people chanting "sacrifice my life for Iran" all across the country...I was out there day 1 of the protests in Tehran and they were chanting "From Kurdistan to Tehran, sacrifice my life for Iran"

[@abushwarb3528]

@@loner1562 my point was Kurds in Iran have tried to be independent, and they did, but Iran did not let them. same is happening in Southern Kurdistan, you say Iran and Iraq are not the same, you should be right but you're actually not, Iran rules Iraq, to a point where we might as well just call Iraq a province of Iran, Your government uses the local millitias and the federal government against Kurdish autonomy, just goes on to prove that no matter where Kurds go establish a country, even on Mars, our racist neighbours will always find a way to prevent that from happening

[@loner1562]

@@abushwarb3528 I get it but just to remind you it's the Islamic Republic government that's ruling both Iran and Iraq, and many more indirectly. the Islamic republic is using "Territorial Integrity" as an excuse to kill Kurdish people in Iran, there's a reason the real propaganda leaders feeding Kurdish and Azari people with separatist thoughts all have links and ties to the IRGC...

[@LeixWUxLong]

You pan-iranians are worse than the Turks who try to enforce their ethnicity on the Kurdistanis. Understand and get it through your head Kurdistanis are not "iranic" nor "iranian". Rather, Kurdistanis are a people of their own.

[@The-informed]

“Just as they did in every Muslim country divide and conquer” was Britain’s policy to get away with the crime they’ve committed. This represented classic British imperial thinking long employed in places like India: divide and conquer. The Kurds might not be particularly docile or loyal to the British, but they could be counted on not to unite with the Arabs or Assyrians, either, and throw off British meddling. The British, too, suspected there were large oilfields under the important Kurdish capital of Mosul. Better to keep the Mosul region securely within Iraq.

[@shabanbaloch820]

Baloch and Kurd one Nation❤

[@samankucher5117]

Always and forever ❤

[@shabanbaloch820]

@@samankucher5117 Love from Baluchistan❤

[@hallahalla7376]

No we are not

[@samankucher5117]

@@hallahalla7376 چی تو باسی چی ئةكةي ؟

[@shabanbaloch820]

@@hallahalla7376 because you don't know history😂

[@piero394]

The issue was originated back when Kurdish inhabitant regions were separated from Iran by Ottomans. Kurdish people are part of the great Persian Empire. like the other ethnicities in Iran, There is a strong cultural and anthropological relationship amongst them.

[@blueseahorse6846]

Nope, we are not Persians. I know you are referring to the 1639 treaty of Qasr Shirin. One must understand that both the Persian and the Ottoman empires were really decentralized and you had Kurdish emirates and principalities on both sides.

[@piero394]

@@blueseahorse6846 Kurds, Azaris' and other Iranian ethnicities were called Persians since 2500 years ago. This has been changed to Iranians after Pahlavi's Dynasty. Kurds have always been Iranian regardless of the regional conflicts and border changes... They celebrate very ancient Persian ceremonies, they have the very same costumes, dance, music and culture to the other parts of Iran. linguistically speaking, Kurdish language has same roots as Persian language as well. We love our beautiful Kurdish countrymen and women. Jin Jîyan Azadî!

[@blueseahorse6846]

@@piero394 that was 2500 years ago, it is not relevant any longer. Different ethnicities tend to separate and speak their own languages, even if they were closely related back then. Just look at the Germanic languages, so many of them that are related, yet many of them cannot understand each other fully. Regarding Newroz, I would not say it is Persian since many other groups celebrate it such as Kurds, Afghans, Tajiks and so on. It has been like that even back then.

[@piero394]

@@blueseahorse6846 Iran as a country is a common property amongst all ethnics. No one has a right to separate the soil they live on from the rest of the country. I am sorry. If Kurds need to communicate with the rest of the country men and women, we have a national language called Farsi. Regarding Tajiks and Afghans etc, They were also part of the mother land Persia which British and Russians separated them rom the mainland. Regarding the language, They have the very right to speak in their own languages as they have been doing it for thousand years, no one has stopped them and never will. Something to consider, Kurdistan without accessing the free seas and resources from the rest of the country, would be a very poor and vulnerable country in the region, considering the inner group conflicts Kurds have always had between themselves.

[@almazchati4178]

No, that is not what happened. Kurds were pushed out of Kurdistan by Safavi, to migrate to Ottoman territories. Kurds from Caucauses were pushed into Turkey by Russians and Armenians. There were no Kurds west of Zagros during Roman Times. Semitic/Arap people lived in 'Kurdistan'. And for them a Kurd was an alien, they did not know anything about them. I think Persian brought them as slave labor in antiquity, some blended, but some escaped. That is why they speak languages close to Persian.

[@كريمء-ج2ث]

The Kurds are their original homeland in Iranian Kurdistan, northern Iraq and Syria, and its original inhabitants are the Syriacs, after they were exterminated by the Kurds in the massacres of Seyfu and Kafnu and abandoned in 1915.

[@zugesboti4427]

Puahahahaha You ignorant people think that wolves speak like Iranians, and you match historical Iran with today's Iran, and you must be making a statement that Kurds are not natives in Syria, Iraq, Turkey, based on this, it's just a funny claim. maybe a settlement in Syria, we don't have a history dating back to much older periods, but our existence in Turkey and Iraq goes back much earlier.

[@abloogywoogywoo]

Kurds: we want our own country USA: did you ever stop to think about what this could do to my oil supplies? always thinking about yourselves and never me and my precious oil

[@KurdishHeritage]

SALADIN is the greatest leader in history. Am I just saying this because I am Kurdish? Yes. Is my statement the truth, though? Also yes.

[@moulayismail1546]

The Kurdish Saladin was the best. And all Muslims are proud of him

[@ezkurdim2854]

@@moulayismail1546 okay but today we are being killed by middle east diktators.

[@nagihangot6133]

@@ezkurdim2854 They don't care because it is not them being wiped out. They are in fact replacing us in our ancestral lands.

[@umedbehruz5512]

Saladin jashi harabi muslman bo

[@umedbehruz5512]

@@moulayismail1546 Kurds consider Saladin as a traitor

[@alexanderchen1049]

There were Kurds living in the Caucasus as well, meaning there are Kurds living in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, etc. How are their experiences in these countries?

[@danielforeroc]

Could you make a video about the Jadid movement in the early 20th century? Like what was their idea of reform for islam and their relation with the russian imperial government; it's an interesting topic that didn't transcended because after the revolution, those ideas just vanished in the void of violence and repression.

[@HikmaHistory]

That's an excellent topic! I've been meaning to tack Islamic modernism for a while (a personal fave topic of mine).

[@danielforeroc]

@@HikmaHistory For me is very interesting, and one thing that's often overlooked is the relation between the Russian Empire and its muslim people that was nearly 12% of the population, of the third most populous country at the time, and they were the majority in big chunks of the Empire. Russia had a more direct rule over its muslim population than say the UK or France, as many muslim majority regions were considered an integral part of Russia, specially the Volga, inhabited by tatars and baskhirs, and with important cities such as Ufa and Kazan. Also, I don't know if it's a myth or a fact, but I once read that Catherine the Great commissioned the first public printing of copies of the Quran with printing press, and that she was the first russian ruler that recognized the muslims as russian citizens. And the Jadid movement was the last stand of that relationship.

[@BarbarosTheBarbarian]

Everyone talks as if the Turks rode out of Central Asia (just for fun), came to the area that you keep showing on the map as "k*rdistan", battled k*rdish armies and invaded what was an independent country of k*rdistan... What a joke.... Turks conquered these lands from the Eastern Roman Empire, who had conquered it from the Assyrians, who had conquered it from Persians, who had conquered it from Sumerians etc... If the Eastern Roman Empire never collapsed, and kept hold of the lands they had in history until today, I wonder how many of you clowns would call them barbarians or invaders, or some other childish name... Would you ask them to grant freedom to every bloody ethnic minority they'd have in their country as well?!? The way you guys tell history has only one purpose. To spread hate for Turks...

[@azadzaed424]

Insha Allah kurdistan will became one nation

[@eddiedehkordi4639]

Way too many differences between the Kurds of Turkey, Iraq, Syria and Iran for that to happen. Kurds for sure have suffered the most under Turks and Saddam but they actually have killed more from one another during all their different civil wars and internal conflicts than anyone else.

[@gammalgubbestorstadshoodie9148]

Iraq northern Kurds deserves to be a own country without any outside hostile interference from the Turks, Iran or from political leadership in Bagdad but what northern Kurdistan needs somebody to protect them from hostile nations.

[@LongLiveKingCharles]

Kurds have a Country, is called Iran. Persian and Meds Created Iran and Iran belongs to both, persian and Meds (the Kurds).

[@megnezz]

This is how terrorists draw a map and it explodes in their hands. When you search for the map of Kurdistan on the internet, different maps appear. Its territory expands every year. It's completely imaginary. They've spread to Japan, too. They dance halay with terrorist posters.

[@vishalmuralidharan4515]

Free Kurdistan!

[@fasihussaini8554]

Wow, being an Indian who is familiar with the plight of Kashmiris I can't help but draw parallels in the Kurdish Nationalistic movement with that of Kashmiris. Both ethnic communities owe their problems to horrible border lines thanks to the British Empire and are now in the midst of regional powers each trying to use them for their own benefit without conceding an inch to the local inhabitants. May Allah bless them both with goodness 🤲🏻

[@randomtanker4355]

@kalam most Kashmiris converted to Islam thanks to missionaries. They are not Arabs or Persians. They are native to Kashmir.

[@randomtanker4355]

@kalam says the who lives around Ganges river 🗿

[@herseydenbirseyler6034]

What is said in this video is not true.

[@TheChosen2030]

@kalam free kashmir kaffir

[@raj-khotmarathawarriorclan]

@@TheChosen2030 kashmir belong to native hindu not for landya melcha

[@daliaofficial2732]

PROUD OF MY COUNTRY ❤️💛💚 One day Kurdistan will be back Inshallah ❤️‍🩹

[@kingduck6728]

No

[@mahditeymuri5650]

hell no

[@aqwsderxz]

Yes kurdistan is 4 parts

[@zodyou1]

Lol what country

[@mahditeymuri5650]

@@zodyou1 wrong reply i didn't make question here

[@gideonhorwitz9434]

A Kurdish state even a small one in northern Iraq is a geopolitical inconvenience to the Arab powers and the turkish government.

[@stevepasxos188]

Steve:No.Kurdistan is Country.Because it has true story!!!

[@personalmobile9421]

Hello From Rojhelat of Kurdistan ❤️☀️💚

[@iliassaleh9324]

im not sure tbh. i think a revolt is innveitable tho

[@HikmaHistory]

In all 4 countries?

[@KameroonEmperor]

there always were revolts, like the one in syria for example

[@mpforeverunlimited]

Already happening

[@mpforeverunlimited]

@@KameroonEmperor yeah they even talk about them in the video 🤣

[@chloedallolio3953]

Very interesting video, thank you

[@AFGeezy]

Interesting topic. Congrats on 20k 🥳

[@HikmaHistory]

Thank you, I appreciate that!

[@kanalkurdistan]

The Country The First is Kurdistan - First Wheel, First Newspaper, First Science, etc

[@hellohelloington9442]

It's honestly really sad what the Kurds have been having to go through throughout their recent history. Really, they don't really deserve any of this. While I can't ever fully understand what it's like for them (I'm a Pomak living in the UK, and we don't really have our own national identity like Kurds do), I can definitely recognise injustice when I see it. Unfortunately, the situation today is largely just the fault of Britain and France trying their best to clutch onto colonialism, even after it was dead in the water, as per the 14 points mentioned in the video (which were written into the Treaty of Versailles, which both Britain and France obviously signed). They enabled everything that happened to the Kurds in recent history to happen, and couldn't even bother to give up even something the size of [what is /officially/] the Kurdish autonomy in Iraq today. Anyway, opinion piece incoming; Now, I'm no expert on this (obviously), but I do feel like the main problem that the Kurds have today that is blocking them from having independence is their lack of organization between their independence groups. They're heavily factionalised and divided, and even fight each other, and that's just been working toward their detriment, and is part of why so many foreign powers cut off their support to the Kurds in the first place. While it isn't all of them, some of these groups don't even have properly established ideologies, and it's fairly obvious in some cases that they're sort of just taping on random elements from other ideologies to make it sound nicer on paper to potential recruits, hence the whole marxism idea. If they were able to actually cooperate properly rather than individually do their own things, there would probably be a Kurdistan on the map today, as there should be. With probably a good 40-ish million Kurds in the world, it's really hard to believe that they've just been walked all over like this. That's nearly half the population of Turkey alone, and they can't even get something 1/20 of its size. What's worse is that it's still happening, though more indirectly now - the Turkish government (read: dictatorship) (which no sane Turk who is worth your time supports, or has supported for the past few decades) has been exploiting the situation with Kurds for a while now, and has instilled pretty much nationwide hate toward Kurds, to the point that people get beaten up in the streets of Istanbul just for speaking Kurdish. They're using the instability of the region to their advantage to polarise the people in their favour. I really despise what's happened to the middle east in recent history - once it was one of the most advanced places in the world, and arguably moreso than Europe, and now it's basically just a shit ton of dictatorships, civil wars and neocolonialism from places like the US. Hell, the term 'Middle East' literally exists to other people living there, and is literally derived from the term 'Near East' or just 'East' used for the Soviets and Chinese. I really do pray that it'll all get better for everyone there, and everyone will figure out a way to balance everything out as it should be. It'll happen eventually, it's just a matter of when that eventually will arrive. Hopefully things get better for everyone, especially those who have been neglected by history, such as the Kurds. Also, great job on the video. Out of the research I've done on this, and the information I've gotten from my Kurdish friends, pretty much all of what I saw in this video seems to line up. It definitely walks the inbetween fairly well, since most sources regarding Kurdistan as a concept are biased either for or against it, and never neutral like this video is.

[@herseydenbirseyler6034]

Don't feel sorry for the Kurds. We Turks do not oppress anyone. 100 years ago, our population was 13 million. The population of Kurds in Anatolia was 1 million. Today, 84 million Turkish people are 20-25 million Kurds. Do you think this increase in the Kurdish population is normal? The Kurds increased their population by using Turkey's possibilities. The Kurds in Turkey were able to reach the positions they wanted. Kurdish rich people with hotel chains, Kurdish associate professors, Kurdish professors, Kurdish doctors etc..... You can see that there are lots of Kurds in the best places in Turkey (by the sea, etc.). The role of the USA in all these propagandas and all these processes is very big. It is the USA that gives them weapons. There are thorium mines in eastern Turkey. This is such an important mine: This mine can turn a normal country into the most powerful country in the world. This mine can turn a superpower country like the USA into God. That's why the US is trying to seize eastern Turkey in this way. The USA wants to use its resources by establishing a slave state there. Nothing is as it seems, my friend. But the pkk, the puppet of America, is making propaganda that 'they are persecuting the Kurds' around the world. I can prove everything I said. This is just a small part of the facts. Actually, there is a lot to tell.

[@hellohelloington9442]

@@herseydenbirseyler6034 I'm going to assume you're Turkish based on your name (and thus I will omit a few more specific details), though I won't speak in Turkish so that others can read this; There's a lot of propaganda from all three sides of this ordeal. On one hand, the Turkish government benefits greatly from the existence of these militant groups. While it is a drain on resources to be fighting people in the eastern parts of Turkey, it is also an easy way to polarise the people they have been in control over for the past decades. Erdogan and the AKP are a dictatorship, and should not be in power, yet here they are, running our economy into the ground because it lines their own pockets to do so. Giving the people enemies like the Kurds is an easy way to distract from the truth. Yes, Turkey has oppressed Kurds in the past, but it was the government, not the people. We have been in limbo between dictatorial regimes ever since Ataturk's death, and some of these haven't been the most pleasant to our neighbours. The United States also benefits from this, for the reasons you suggested. They have always been interested in making other people fight for them in situations like this, hence why they like to make militant groups to fight in their favour. As early as the Vietnam War, the US Military was sending people from the South Vietnamese Army instead of US soldiers to do the missions that they simply didn't want to do, and this got further repeated in Afghanistan, and later in Iraq. The Kurds, on the other hand, have always wanted a country. The issue with this is that not even Kurds know what they actually want. You can talk to any Kurd or ask them yourself what they want, and every one will say something different, and that in itself shows the messy nature around this whole ordeal. The only established fact is that they want independence and freedom to do as they will, yet there is no central ideology or anything that they all agree with or support. They are an easily exploitable group for both the US and Turkey, and that's why they have been exploited so greatly by both over the past few years. However, this also means that there literally cannot be any organised effort on the end of the Kurds to 'take down Turkey' or whatever you're suggesting. They just had a population boom, like every other country in the world, in the past century, and more and more people began to care about independence, leading us to this situation. I do feel sorry for Kurds, because what's happening to them is not their fault, and they truly do deserve their own country, regardless of how you cut it. They are a people, just like us, and they deserve a country, just as Turkey does, and just as the Arabs do. No sane person can claim this double standard that x people can get a country, but y people cannot. The problem is that these groups that're leading this drive for Kurdish independence seem to have little to no idea what they're doing here, and can't even set out a central belief on what they actually want. A lot of the maps I've seen are... ambitious, to say the least, and it's entirely unlikely the Kurds will get any large swath of Turkey. But that doesn't matter, because Kurds would probably naturally migrate to an independent Kurdistan, if their dreams came true and they did finally get a country, regardless of how big or small they are. They should get a country, and I do feel sorry for them, and there isn't just some "secret scheme" for them to get into power, like you're suggesting, and there's a lot to say otherwise. However, I will not deny that there is a lot of propaganda at play from all three sides, because there is. All three sides lie equally, and all three sides are believed. It's probably not worth forgetting what a Pomak actually is. I know about a lot of what you're talking about, and I know a lot of the controversies on this topic from the Turkish side as well.

[@herseydenbirseyler6034]

@@hellohelloington9442 There's a lot you don't know my friend. If you were born and raised in Turkey, you would understand me. Believe me, it's not like you know. Let me tell you from the beginning. I'll go back 1000 years for you. When the Turks first came to Anatolia, Anatolia belonged to Byzantium. On the lower right side of Anatolia, there was a Kurdish dynasty named Mervani. The lands of this dynasty in Anatolia are presently Elazig, Mardin and Hakkari. In other words, the Kurds are a people living below Anatolia. Throughout the Great Seljuk empire, the Kurds had an autonomous structure. This continued in the Ottoman Empire as well. During the Iranian Safavid state and the Ottoman war; Benefiting from the Kurds, the Ottoman state settled the Kurds in the eastern region of Anatolia. Do you understand what I mean? Normally, the Kurds did not exist in Anatolia. Kurds say this a lot: They say, 'We were here before the Turks were there'. This is not entirely true. As I said at the beginning, Kurds lived only in Elazig, Mardin and Hakkari. There were Alevi Turks in eastern Turkey. The Ottoman state, a Sunni Turkish state, settled Kurds in this region to assimilate the Alevi Turks. Kurds do not have the right to demand a place from Anatolian lands. I want to say this. Shouldn't the Kurds have a state? Let the Kurds have a state, but not on my land. I'm a Turk. I will not give my land to anyone. No one can claim my land from me. My ancestors defeated Byzantium. Does he want to buy land from me? Ok ! I bought this land by shedding blood. He will shed blood too. Anyway, I'll continue. The Kurds had a feudal system within themselves. That is, there were Kurdish landlords. These landlords ruled the Kurdish people. The Kurds were slaves of their own landlords in their own land. A Kurdish landlord could sell a village to another Kurdish landlord. Agha was not only the owner of the village, he also owned the people in it. There were also the sheikhs. They were also respected and wealthy, just like the landlords. When Atatürk founded the Republic, sheikhs and landlords rebelled. Because Atatürk would bring equal citizenship. Why should a landlord be equal to his slave? That's why they rioted. Atatürk suppressed these revolts. They describe this event as the Kurdish massacre. However, the Turks who opposed it in the Republic were also killed. In every revolution, blood is spilled. This is the truth of life. Among the Kurds, those who understood Atatürk loved him very much. And he lived and came to good places believing in the equal citizenship of the Republic. For example, Aziz Sancar, who won the Nobel Prize, is a Kurd. And he said, 'I owe everything to the Republic of Turkey'. He donated the award he received to Turkey. Turkey did a lot of favors to the Kurds. Loyal Kurds are aware of this and they are not hostile to Turkey. But there are also ungrateful Kurds. They deliberately made a lot of children. When you enter a Kurdish house in the 90s, you encounter a family with 10-15 children. They're all miserable. The elders of the house say that our state should help us. When asked why you had so many children, they would answer, "Out of ignorance." Our government has always helped. They have increased even more. They always pretended to be victims. The Kurds do this very well. Today, they do this to the world public opinion. When they get a little stronger, you see their real faces. You do not know what we suffered from Kurdish gangs in the 90s. I am the child of a Turkish family with two children. When you fight with a Kurd, 10-15 people attack. They started to spread terror. This happened to every Turk. Then, when the Turks coordinated and attacked, they said, "The Turks are persecuting us." They have grown on our back. They use it to take land from us. Even your enemy must be brave. These are lousy enemies. If you had experienced what I went through, you wouldn't feel sorry for the Kurds. Good if you empathize. Trust me, you have nothing to worry about.

[@herseydenbirseyler6034]

@@hellohelloington9442 I'll tell you one more thing you don't know. Iraqi leader Saddam started to massacre the Kurds because he knew what would happen in the future. Saddam told Turkey: 'The USA will use the Kurds as a tool against the peoples here. He will drive the Kurds into the field to destabilize these geographies. Help me finish the Kurds'. Turkey did not accept this. Moreover, it opened its doors to half a million Kurds fleeing the Saddam massacre. Until then, no one in the world knew of the existence of a people called Kurds. We Turks have announced to the world that such a people exists. We helped the Kurds a lot. That's why Iraqi Kurds love us so much. If you go to Iraq one day, tell them that you are Turkish, they will welcome you really well. But PKK's ungrateful Kurds attacked us. They raided the police station. They killed our soldiers and teachers. In the fight against the PKK, we have lost more than 40 thousand of our soldiers so far. The financial loss is over $4 trillion. And you feel sorry for those who caused all these disasters. I'm saying it once again. If you were in my place, you would understand me very well. These scumbags present themselves as victims to the whole world. But we are the real victims. We Turks have suffered terribly. We have suffered so much because of these scumbags. I don't think it's right for anyone to feel sorry for these scumbags on my behalf.

[@herseydenbirseyler6034]

What do you think of what I wrote? Who do you think is right?

[@onurelveda]

Paris capital of Kurdistan. We will creat a country for Kurdish in Europa because there are over 5 million kurds livign in Europa. Thry are protested in Paris 3 years ago to creat a Kurdistan in Paris.

[@pprot1337]

Brilliant and comprehensive video as always, look forward to more! I might go on a bit of a rant here. Man, the Kurds have gone through so much. This might sound stupid, and is in no way comparable in terms of scale, but I kinda understand their feelings as a Bangladeshi. That struggle for independence as a large, significant, and historic ethnic minority; that detachment from a completely different and repressive culture/s; that unrecognized genocide and scars persisting from oppression. It almost seem like a repeat to the events leading to the war of '71. Luckily for us, our struggle was with one nation, we had significant help from India, and it wasn't as long term as that of the Kurds. We eventually gained independence of our homeland and our people, but the Kurds have not been so lucky thus far. I also absolutely love the modernist, secularist approach to Islam that many Kurds have adopted,we had a similar thing till recent Islamist movements plaguing modern Bangladesh. Really hope we follow their example one day. All in all, I really hope I didn't undermine the Kurdish freedom movement, I'm just appreciative of their culture and struggle via comparison to my own, that's all. To all the Kurds out there, much love and support. One day you will have your nation.

[@SSGuvola]

Tell the bjp nationalists to recognise bangla as a language, malu. They will beat you to de@th before they change muslim named cities in india

[@SSGuvola]

Also don't say we fought, malu. muslims bengalis were the victor in 71, None of you indian malus actually participated in the war. Also indi@ ironically looted soo much from bangladesh that sheikh mujib had to kick them out

[@SSGuvola]

The "islamisation" began after the freedom fighters took control of bangladesh and deposed the commie-secular regime, So shut it malu. You people (malus) did not fight the war nor did india, we did

[@SSGuvola]

@@ok00001 It is saddening to write these things when bangladeshi hindus (malus) constantly praise them. Because hindus never fought in our war, they escaped to india and as everyone knows india doesn't accept muslim refugees

[@SSGuvola]

@@ok00001 Or just search mujib bahini on wiki and you can see how indi@ looted from us, we literally had nothingI'm talking about the war in 1971 (note: my family fought against the pakistanis in '71)

[@darthcannabis856]

The Kurds are extremely nice people living in some beautiful lands. The Peshmerga may be the toughest fighter I have ever met.

[@sladewinberry8283]

Love to the Kurds from the US.

[@flexzemre5129]

9/11

[@sladewinberry8283]

@@flexzemre5129 it's 01/01 happy new year, bud.

[@rekarw1623]

we love you too

[@umi1903]

Hate to US

[@Wonderer-X]

Good video! Thank you. One way or another, there will be an independent Kurdistan. Kurds have suffered enough; they deserve to be independent on their own land. Kurdistan is loading..

[@RW821.]

as a kurd we are proud to be the largest ethnic group by population

[@aqwsderxz]

Every kurd should have 100 children

[@zodyou1]

Don’t forget to mention “Stateless” lol

[@aqwsderxz]

​@@zodyou1u do realize that a civil war will happen and revolution is close kurds are born to fight

[@matkokuljic374]

Big suport for Kurd and Kurdistan .

[@Pincer88]

Holy mother of Gd, look at the hate below... Some time ago I asked Hikma History what Hikma meant and he reffered to the period in Islam known as Bayt al Hikma (House of Wisdom). So I studied that. That was a prosperous period if I'm not mistaken and one in which philosophy, sciences and arts flourished. I'm not certain, but I think it was also a peaceful time in which people weren't involved so much in defending entrenched convictions and identifying with them but approached everyone with an open and friendly mind. And what do we see all over the world right now? Nationalism raising its ugly head once more and spreading its venom. As for the Kurds, they are a very ancient people who have ended up on the wrong side of history because a few colonial idiots drew borders in the sand, hated in every fictitious country their own lands came to part of when all they want is their own place under the sun to live as free people. The way they once did alongside their brethren Persians and possibly (I'm not certain) as the mainstay of the Parthian empire. These assertions which are fact according to some historians and myth according to haters of course will be bitterly disputed, because when acknowledged that means admitting one's own transgressions against an old culture. I have nothing against Turks, Farsi or Arabs whatsoever - in fact I wish tem all well - but I wish they all would grant the Kurds the exact same right the entire islamic world demands for the Palestinians. Or for the Uigurs in China which are just as badly treated there as Kurds in some countries only because they do not want to be secular Chinese. One cannot point to the splinter in another's eye while ignoring the giant beam in one's own. Peace can only be achieved when everyone can step over its own shadow. And if hate is the answer, then what was the question I wonder. Georges Santayana famously said: "Fanaticism is doubling one's efforts when one has long forgotten his aim." Hate is a poisonous branch of the same tree. Coming from a western country I know I have no right whatsoever without expressing my sincere shame about how my country dealt with subjigated subjects in our former colonies. One may say, that is wisdom coming too late. But then again, I cannot vow or be held responsible for what my ancestors did (if they were in fact at all involved, because by family tree shows they were farmers and never went anywhere than their village). So how about stopping the spiteful madness and the political spin surrounding this (or any) topic and simply get to know eachother, whatever our background, language, religion or lack thereof. Why not approach eachother as fellow human beings with the same basic needs, desires and inevitable character flaws. If there is a God (and I believe He is), that probably is the only thing that would prove to him that we've outgrown our animal instincts. Does He not teach kindness, hospitality, forgiveness, postponement of judgement (so that only He may judge) and caring for eachother - even if that other is someone foreign or previously deemed an enemy? So in short, could we all please return to the Bayt-al-Hikma as brothers and sisters?

[@shamancosmo7245]

Wishy washy as it be. They all will keep spriralling down to the toilet of history.

[@FlammablePunch]

@@shamancosmo7245 what?

[@FlammablePunch]

@@shamancosmo7245 hhhh no the conflict isnt centuries old like media portrays it it all started when British and French couldn't mind their businesses

[@ahmedqushty1021]

The kurds never had major problems with their muslim brethren around them but all this shite and division started after the psykes pyko partition of those lands and trying to use the kurds as a stick to beat against the ottoman turks and their Arab brethren too. These are white neo colonial inventions and even the Muslims biggest enemy Israel supports kurds against other Muslims to carve out land from Iraq Syria and Turkey so it shows it ain't genuine but for their geopolitical interests in the region. As you have already said Islam isn't prone to violence but Muslims nowadays are due to the constant brutalisation of their people's in the middle east and your government's support for mad dictators while crying wolf about human rights and Liberal values! You're the one's supporting almost all the regimes in the middle east keeping their tyrants in power because you know the muslim populations in those countries would elect real leaders who are representative of their Islamic values who wouldn't let injustice go unchecked.So please don't waffle on here again talking about a whole load of nothing while your governments and elites are rank hypocrites.

[@donnie27brasco]

Three basic things every Westerner should know about The Kurds: 1- They are dominated by the Ultra nationalists, (Just like Ukrainians) and believes in the blood purity and the Aryan race (I’m not kidding). 2- They DON’T belong to the region (Turkey, Syria, Iraq); they came in big waves only in the 16 century from Iran, and in the 18 -19 centuries, they committed some of the most horrible, unpunished massacres and mass genocide, mass deportation against Armenians, Greeks and other Christians in north Iraq, south Turkey. The Kurds still persecuting and driving out the non Kurds from Kurdistan, northern Iraq. 3-They came to Northern, East Northern Syria only in the early 20 century, as refugees from Turkey, (After they participated passionately in the mass massacres and mass deportation of Christians) and now they want, with the help of the USA, to create a country for them, on the land of the other people. Keep these two key words about The Kurds in your mind: The Ultra nationalism, The colonialism. ======== To know more about Kurds, read about: *The mass massacres and mass deportation of Assyrian-Syriac Christians, massacres known as "Sayfo". *The mass massacres and mass deportation of the Armenian people in Turkey, massacres known as "the Armenian genocide". *The early massacres against Armenians and Assyrians in the Ottoman Empire in the mid-1890s, known as "The Hamidian massacres". Note that all these horrible massacres still unpunished, not apologized for, and the mass graves scattered all over Kurdistan and Turkey still not excavated yet, to estimate the number of victims, identify them, and give them an honorable burial (many of them women who have been buried naked after being raped).

[@tibodeclercq2131]

Because the British purposefully drew the middle-east borders in such a way that the countries would be as united as possible (ethnic, religious and linguistic devides). But also because Turkey did not accept the ceasefire agreements and went with it's military eastward. In my view the middle east should have a Jewish state, a Kurdish state, an Assyrian state, an arab shia state, an Arab sunni state, an Alawite state, an Arab Christian state, a Yazidi state and an Azeri state.

[@OfficialUKGov]

Kurdistan: The Poland of the Middle East

[@darazeyad4677]

Thank you for this nice report about Kurdish people and Kurdisatan

[@AiSenussi]

Peace and Blessings be upon Salahudin Ayubi one of Islams greatest Generals. Who took back Palestine 🇵🇸 from crusaders This is why I believe in Islamic Nationalism rather then race Nationalism. May Allah swt make us into one Ummah Amiin.

[@khalidqawdhan3265]

Are u Ethiopian

[@samminachi2562]

Why you are not making documentary about Quebec or Texas?

[@welatmehdi]

Thx for ths amazing vid about us. 🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜☀️⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 BIJÎ KURDISTAN - LONG LIVE KURDISTAN Yes we will struggle till independence day.

[@mais2755]

@@halisaydin36 how would you know, are you from the future ?

[@halisaydin36]

@@mais2755 yes im from future and no kurdistan no kurd country

[@Jitmz]

😂

[@zodyou1]

Kurd…loading…ista… loading failed, try again.

[@Botan1338]

Free Kurdistan 💚☀️❤️

[@GreaterAfghanistanMovement]

As an Afghan, i support the Kurdistan movement because freedom is a must for such a large ethnic group forcefully divided by colonial powers. And to those who support Palestine but not Kurdistan, you are hypocrites.

[@fatemehshahrokhi8463]

نه نه بابا چقدر تو روشنفکری:))) خب اونوقت چرا شما پشتونها به هزاره و تاجیک و بلوچ استقلال نمیدین؟!!

[@GreaterAfghanistanMovement]

@@fatemehshahrokhi8463 None of them have asked for independence my dear Irani.

[@adam_explosion]

Yes and no, slemani is kurdish but according to mesopotamian history, north iraq belongs to the indigineous people of mesopotamia.

[@oz9311]

Beautifully made video

[@HikmaHistory]

Thanks!