Kurdish Geopolitics Past and Present :: history

Analysis of Kurdish Geopolitics Past and PresentWho be the Kurds? Most of us leave heard approximately them but fathert know who they are. Are they a race, a religion, a demesne? As we see from the following example, even Europeans who are much close at hand(predicate) to the Kurds still do not have a complete soul of the Kurds or the middle east in general In the West, the left-hand(a) and liberal minded people in general, especially in the Scandinavian and Anglo-Saxon countries, have usually supported or at least expressed some sympathy with the struggles against both European colonialism and U.S. policies in Vietnam. besides as soon as the problem shifted to Biafra, Southern Sudan, Kurdistan or Eritrea - in short, whenever the discipline question was raised within a third humanity country - this section of the public opinion has t cease to remain silent and confuesed.1 This wishing of knowledge about the Kurds and Middle East in general is a major wall between resolutio n of the many problems that exist in the Middle East. I would like to give you a better brain of what it is to be Kurdish by describing to you the past and present condition of Kurdistan, the tell apart or territory that the Kurdish people populate. A brief grounds of the history of the Kurdish people is all that is needed to successfully assemblage just why we should be more involved and educated about the current political activities surrounding Kurdistan and the countries that infringe upon it. The Kurdish people have the unfortunate distinction of being the only community of over 15 million in race that has not achieved some form of national statehood.2 This is the problem that needs addressing, people without a country. There Kurds territory, would be country, consists of the mountainous regions of central and northern Zargos, the eastern one-third of the Taurus and Pontus, and the northern half(prenominal) of the Amanus ranges (see F1).4 The Kurdish are an ancient peopl e who about 4,000 thousand age ago started to trickle into Kurdistan in limited numbers to settle there.3 By the classical era in 300 b.c. the Kurds were already experiencing massive population movements that resulted in settlement and domination of many surrounding regions.5 Although they did at multiplication rule over the land outside the mountains, for the most part, the Kurds home ended where the mountains ended. The Kurds as a distinct people have only survived in the mountains.