Stateless Nation: The Kurds

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Stateless Nation The Kurds

• Unreliable, untrustworthy traitors, or
  nationalist, freedom-loving patriots, or what?

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Point of View

• Turkey, Iraq, Iran, and Syria may see the Kurds
  as unreliable, untrustworthy traitors who want to
  break apart those countries.
• The Kurds are a nation a people with a sense of
  common ethnicity, history, and purpose. They see
  their cause as nationalist patriotism.
• Neither the UN or any country has taken up their
  cause and supported the creation of an
  independent Kurdistan.

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Where the Kurds Live
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One View of a Kurdish State
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Some Productive Areas
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Hard work pays off
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Some Marginal Land
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Some Barren Land
Once a part of the Roman Empire
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Some Scenic Land
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Some Urban Landscapes The Old and the New
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Iraq Genocide
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Halabja Gas Attack, 1988
After the attack and before reconstruction
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Saddam Hussein ordered the use of weapons of mass
destruction
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Desolation After the Attack
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Those who didnt die were left scarred physically
and emotionally
The mourners
The wounded
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Halabja has been rebuilt, but the horror has not
been forgotten.
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1991 Gulf War

• Kurds backed the attacking allied forces against
  the government of Iraq.
• The northern No-Fly Zone was established to stop
  Saddam Hussein from retaliating against the
  Kurds.
• What will happen to the Kurds in Iraq if there is
  another war in 2003?

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The Future?

• As long as there are Kurdish people, there will
  be a Kurdish nation.
• Will there ever be a Kurdish state for the
  Kurdish nation?