Kurdish Political

Political parties in the Kurdish regions can be directly traced to the nationalist movements in the Middle East after WWI. At the end of World War I, the Treaty of Sevres was formally drafted to deal with the dissolution and partition of the Ottoman Empire. The Treaty provided that a referendum be conducted to decide the issue.Rejection of Kurdish HomelandWhen the Ottoman Empire collapsed after the war, Turkish Nationalists led by Kemal Atatürk embarked on a War of Independence which resulted in the establishment of the Turkish Republic. The Treaty of Sevres was rejected by the new Turkish Republic and a new treaty was negotiated and signed in 1923, the Treaty of Lausae. The Lausae Treaty aulled the Treaty of Sevres giving control of the entire Anatolian Peninsula to the new Turkish Republic including the Kurdistan homeland in Turkey. There was no provision in the new treaty for a referendum for Kurdish independence or autonomy and Kurdistan’s hopes for autonomy and independence were dashed.False Promise of AutonomySince then the Kurds have been promised autonomy by successive govements in Turkey, Iraq, Syria and Iran; and each time the promise is unfulfilled, the Kurds then revolt and then the revolt is brutally put down resulting in the destruction of Kurdish villages, massacre and maiming of people. As each nation-state in which Kurds were living evolved separately, the struggle for autonomy and independence within each nation-state was separate