Kurds and the mountains

No friend but the muntain. This is a motto that most of kurds use and believe in. Today i will try to give some reason that why Kurds believe in that and clarify it. 

First of all, Kurd is the largest ethnic group with out state. the population of Kurds are nearly 50 millions. Kurds speak kurdish and Zaza-Gorani, languages which in an indo-european languages are of a western Iranian branch. The Shafi'i school in Sunni Islam is a majority of Kurds, but Shia Islam and Alevism are of significant importance, while some are adherents of Yarzan, Yazid, Zoroastrian and Christianity.

?Why just mountain

After the Ottoman Empire fell, as the colonial forces had their first indexes of democracy, the Kurdish nationalist parties had made alliances with strong nation-states periodically, only to be discarded later when the short-term interests of those nations had been. The pledge and decline period has lasted for a century and has continued to thwart Kurdish national, political and cultural aspirations, with the exception of the creation of an independent Kurdish regional government to the north of Iraq.

Treaty of Sevres

Before Sèvres, apart from Kurds' inability to create trustworthy leadership, it was primarily because of the amount of time that passed between Mudros in 191 8 and Sèvres in 1920 that a great inability was reached in achieving a better understanding of an independent Kurdish state. The British gave the Kurds no options. The Anatolian Kurds lacked nationalistic secessionist aspirations after the Greek attempts at Anatolia, the Kemalists rise and the Armenian threat increased. In spite of the rising strength and influence of the government and of the strength of the Grand National Assembly in Ankara, the Treaty was concluded between the Allied forces and the government in Istanbul. While the Istanbul government itself deeply disagreed with the terms, it was obliged to sign the Treaty. Section III of the Treaty shall include in Articles 62 – 64 all the details concerning Kurdistan's autonomous state. Article 62 delegated the drafting of a scheme of local autonomy for the primarily Kurdish regions to UK, French, and Italian officials within 6 months of the adoption of the Convention. Article 64 specifies clearly that kurdish regions have the right to declare their independence in any part of Kurdistan from Turkey or any territory controlled by the Allied Principal Powers.

The treaty of Lausanne

After it was clear how vigorously the Ankara government opposed the Sèvres Treaty and Kemalist control, Major Noel and the British started thinking seriously about joining the Kurdish revolt. The concern that the uprising could not be managed led to the abandonment of the programme. But in 1921, after kemalist troops were seen interfering with tribs south of the Armistice line, this proposal was resurrected. Britain's leaders started again with a broad-based Kurdish uprising against the Turks to fight their increasing power and influence in the region. This strategy has had many pitfalls. This will negatively reflect on Iraq's King Faisal, as weapons will arrive from Iraq to the north of Kurdistan. If the uprising collapsed, a huge number of Kurdish refugees in Iraq were thought to face the British. There were also persistent questions about the unreliability of Kurdish officials and the unification of Kurdish armies. However, on the basis of the National Pact and not the Treaty of Sèvres, the French have reached agreement in Ankara with the administration.In the end, as Kemalist powers grow stronger and enlarged, "British will to provide peace with Turkey subordinated British Kurdish strategy, of course, to this goal on the best possible terms. The British decided to negotiate peace with Turkey on terms even more different from the. The Lausanne Treaty between the British, their allies and the Turks was signed on 24 July 1923. While about 1/3 of the population of Turkey is on the new frontiers and 48.5 percent of the Kurdish population overall, the Treaty omitted to include kurds. Within nine months of the ratification of the Treaties, boundary between Turkey and Iraq was to be agreed between Britain and Turkey. In the talks on the Treaty of Lausanne in 1923 Kurdish representatives addressed the League of Nations and Britain for recognition of Kurdish. Before the Treaty of Lausanne was concluded, the Iraqi prime minister was allowed to meet in Sulaimania in 1923 with the Kurdish tribal leaders. At the time, he found the, except in one region, they strongly supported the initiative to accept their national aspirations. In a meeting with him in May 1923, they also helped King Faisal. These Kurdish politicians and other Kurdish businessmen and dignitaries, because of their history of political exploitation and lawlessness, have rejected Shaykh Mahmud 's style of nationality. Many tribal Shaikhs and many in the Kurdish elite were, according to Muhsin al-Musawi, highly inclined toward the unification of Iraq. However, the Kurds founded the Kingdom of Kurdistan in the town of Sulaymaniyah, which is short-lived in Iraq. The Kingdom continued until July 1924 from September 1922.

No friends but the mountains

That is why Kurds are saying that we do not have any friends but the mountains. After all the great country bertrayed them, they stayed fighting in the mountains for their rights.