Jalal Talabani was an Kurdistanîpolitician who served as the sixth president of Iraq from 2005 to 2014,as well as the president of the Governing Council of Iraq. He was ethnically Kurdish.
Mustafa Barzani,also known as Mullah Mustafa,was a Kurdish nationalist leader and one of the most prominent political figures in modern Kurdish politics.
The flag of Kurdistan is the flag of Kurds and was created by the Society for the Rise of Kurdistan in 1920. It would later,in different variants,be adopted as the national flag of different Kurdish states including Republic of Ararat,Republic of Mahabad and most recently by Kurdistan Region in 1992. Moreover,the Kingdom of Kurdistan used the crescent flag which was also considered a Kurdish flag.
Mahabad is a city in the Central District of Mahabad County,West Azerbaijan province,Iran,serving as capital of both the county and the district.
Abdurrahman Sharafkandi,known by his pen name Hazhar or Hajar,was a renowned Kurdish writer,poet,lexicographer,linguist,and translator,from Iran. He was born in Mahabad.
The Iran crisis of 1946,also known as the Azerbaijan Crisis in Iranian sources,was one of the first crises of the Cold War,sparked by the refusal of Joseph Stalin's Soviet Union to relinquish occupied Iranian territory despite repeated assurances. The end of World War II should have resulted in the end of the Allied joint occupation of Iran. Instead,pro-Soviet Iranians proclaimed the separatist Azerbaijan People's Government and the Kurdish separatist Republic of Mahabad. The United States pressure on the Soviet Union to withdraw is the earliest evidence of success with the new strategy of Truman Doctrine and containment.
Abdul Rahman Ghassemlou was an Iranian Kurdish politician and leader. Ghassemlou was the Secretary-General of the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (KDPI) from 1973 until his assassination in 1989 by individuals suspected of being agents of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Simko Shikak born 1887,was a Kurdish chieftain of the Shekak tribe. He was born into a prominent Kurdish feudal family based in Chihriq castle located near the Baranduz river in the Urmia region of northwestern Iran. By 1920,parts of Iranian Azerbaijan located west of Lake Urmia were under his control. He led Kurdish farmers into battle and defeated the Iranian army on several occasions. The Iranian government had him assassinated in 1930. Simko took part in the massacre of the Assyrians of Khoy and instigated the massacre of 1,000 Assyrians in Salmas.
Efat Ghazi was a Kurdish refugee from East Kurdistan who was killed by a letter bomb in Västerås,Sweden,in 1990.
The Kurdistan Democratic Party,usually abbreviated as KDP or PDK,is the ruling party in Iraqi Kurdistan and the senior partner in the Kurdistan Regional Government. It was founded in 1946 in Mahabad in Iranian Kurdistan. The party states that it combines "democratic values and social justice to form a system whereby everyone in Kurdistan can live on an equal basis with great emphasis given to rights of individuals and freedom of expression."
The Republic of Mahabad,also referred to as the Republic of Kurdistan,was a short-lived Kurdish self-governing unrecognized state in present-day Iran,from 22 January to 15 December 1946. The Republic of Mahabad,a puppet state of the Soviet Union,arose alongside the Azerbaijan People's Government,a similarly short-lived unrecognized Soviet puppet state.
The Simko Shikak revolt refers to an armed Ottoman-backed tribal Kurdish uprising against the Qajar dynasty of Iran from 1918 to 1922,led by Kurdish chieftain Simko Shikak from the Shekak tribe.
Kurdish separatism in Iran or the Kurdish–Iranian conflict is an ongoing,long-running,separatist dispute between the Kurdish opposition in Western Iran and the governments of Iran,lasting since the emergence of Reza Shah Pahlavi in 1918.
The 1967 Kurdish revolt in Iran erupted in March 1967,as part of the long-running Iranian-Kurdish conflict. Abrahamian describes the revolt as a Marxist insurgency with the aim of establishing autonomy for Kurds in Iran,modeled as a federal republic. The revolt,consolidating several tribal uprisings which had begun in 1966,was inspired by the First Iraqi–Kurdish War in neighboring Iraq and enjoyed the support of the recovering Kurdish Democratic Party of Iran,previously crushed during the 1946 Iran crisis. The 1967 revolt,coordinated into a semi-organized campaign in the Mahabad-Urumiya region by the revived KDPI party,was entirely subdued by the central Iranian government.
The 1943–1945 Barzani revolt was a Kurdish nationalistic insurrection in the Kingdom of Iraq,during World War II. The revolt was led by Mustafa Barzani and was later joined by his older brother Ahmed Barzani,the leader of the previous Kurdish revolt in Iraq. The revolt,initiating in 1943,was eventually put down by the Iraqi assault in late 1945,combined with the defection of a number of Kurdish tribes. As a result,the Barzanis retreated with much of their forces into Iranian Kurdistan,joining the local Kurdish elements in establishing the Republic of Mahabad.
The Hama Rashid revolt was a tribal uprising in Pahlavi Iran,during the Second World War,following the Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran. The tribal revolt erupted in the general atmosphere of anarchy throughout Iran and its main faction was led by Muhammed Rashid,lasting from 27 September 1941 until May 1942 and then re-erupted in 1944,resulting in Rashid's defeat.
Iranian Kurdistan or Eastern Kurdistan is an unofficial name for the parts of northwestern Iran with either a majority or sizable population of Kurds. Geographically,it includes the West Azerbaijan Province,Kurdistan Province,Kermanshah Province,Ilam Province and parts of Hamadan Province and Lorestan Province.
The Uprising of Sheikh Ubeydullah was a Kurdish uprising against the Ottoman Empire in 1879 and Qajar Iran between 1880 and 1881. Both uprising were led by Sheikh Ubeydullah,the leader of the Semdinan Naqshbandi family who claimed descendance from Mohammed through his daughter Fatima. Thus the family had a considerable influence,disposed over large amounts of donations,owned several villages in the region and many Kurdish tribal leaders were devout followers of him. The initial cause for the uprisings were the outcome of the Russo-Turkish war in 1877-78 and the Treaty of Berlin which provided the Christian Armenians and the Nestorian Assyrians with considerable rights and autonomy,to which he did not agree to.
Suleiman Moini was an Iranian Kurdish political activist. After the collapse of the 1946 republic,the political activities of the Kurds in Iran declined. Some of the 1946 political activists went to Iraqi Kurdistan and later joined the rebellion of Mustafa Barzani in the 1960s.
Abdullah Mohtadi is the leader and secretary general of Komala Party of Iranian Kurdistan.
