Ismail Besikci
When it comes to Kurdistan, four parts of Kurdistan are generally understood. Kurdistan parts in Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Syria. It is well known that part of Kurdistan is also in the Caucasus. Hejarê Shamil highlighted this in his books published years ago. Diaspora Kurds, About Soviet Kurds, Historical and Current Review (Fairy Publications, Istanbul 2005) Azarbaycan Kurds (Fairy Publications Istanbul, 2007) books are important in this respect. Hejarê Shamil’s Book of Kurdistan, translated by Ezizê Ziyo Badxan, is also important. (Fairy Publications, Istanbul, 2010)
On October 1, 2020, Ibrahim Sediyani published an extensive article on his website titled ‘The Caucasus is neither Azerbaijani, nor Armenian, Caucasus is Kurdish and Kurdish Territory’. In his article, based on equal books and writings, he states that the Kurds have lived in this part of the Caucasus since the Med Empire, and that the region is part of Kurdistan. It is also emphasized that Armenians, Turks, came to the region long after.
Fehim Taştekin, on October 1, 2020, the newspaper wall published in his article expressed similar opinions. The article is the title of ‘Turkish-Armenian War in Red Kurdistan’.
It is also pointed out that in the 11th century, during the Marwans, Hasanveyhiler, Eyyubiler period, the Revadi-Seddadi Kurd dynasty ruled. Selahattin Eyyubi is known to have come from the Revadi Kurd tribe.
Red Kurdistan is an autonomous region established between Karabakh and Armenia in 1923. Qelbejar is located in a section of Laçin, Kubatli, Gabriel, Zengilan and Zengezur. In 1929, with intrigue, the existence of autonomous government was terminated by the rulers of the Soviet Union. In this process, Mustafa Kemal’s demands from Stalin have a very large share. In return, Mustafa Kemal brought limitations to the daily life of Trotky, who was a refugee in Büyükada in Istanbul, and made his life difficult. Trocky was forced to leave Turkey and settled in Italy.
This topic reminds us of what Lenin and Stalin wrote in the 1910s, in books such as The Right of Nations to Determine Their Own Futures, Marxism and the National Issue. It seems that the thoughts expressed in these books do not find life in the Soviet Union, in general.
Especially the situation of the Kurds… With the knowledge of the rulers of the Soviet Union, it is well known how armenians and Azerbaijani victims of the Kurdistans and how they destroyed Red Kurdistan at Turkey’s request. It is also known that some of Kurd also lives in Georgia.
Yerevan Radio is a very important institution for Kurds. All The Kurds know that. But this cannot keep away from the oppression, persecution, exile, attention carried out by Armenians against the Kurdistans, especially in the Azerbaijani-Armenian war of 1992, in Red Kurdistan, in Laçin, Qelbejar, Kubatli, Zengilan, Gabriel, Zengezur. In 1915, what the Ottoman administration did to the Armenians, and the Armenians implemented the same practice in 1992. Relocation… The Kurds needed a wand to hold on to protect themselves. But the mechanisms were implemented so that the Kurds didn’t have it, they didn’t even have the wand, the garbage. Until 1992, the Kurds already had very little, very little. After 1992, they had nothing left. Kurdistan, where the Kurds lived for centuries and where they lived since the MED Empire, was destroyed in Thessul(1137-1193) and Red Kurdistan, where the Revadi-Seddadi Kurd dynascies took place. Armenia was fighting Azerbaijan, but it invaded Red Kurdistan. He kicked the Kurds out of Red Kurdistan. The Kurds were not only expelled from their country, they were expelled from the century in which they lived. Let’s remember Muradhan Mungan’s Clove poem…
After the 1992 war, in the outings of areas such as Baku, it could be said that most of those exiled in very difficult conditions were Kurds.
Due to censorship by various authorities, we are not able to monitor developments related to the Kurds, unfortunately, day by day. Years later, we were able to find out the truth of this incident in 1992.
In 1992, in the Armenian-Azerbaijani war, what happened to the Kurds reminded people to rethink about mass killings, deportations, genocide-insuling operations: It is now important to think that every administration, every people, can commit mass killings, mass deportations against every people. An administration that constantly accumulates a grudge against a people it knows adversation, a people, when the time comes, can carry out such a process by having the necessary tools. The only process that can prevent this is confrontation. Turkey, 1915, genocide, do not want to face. Armenia, too, has been diligently avoiding confrontation with Red Kurdistan. The ttihat and Terakki, then Turkey never wanted the Armenians to return, always resisted. He took measures to prevent the return of the Armenians. Armenia has always prevented the return of the Kurds. To prevent the return of the Kurds, he created many mechanisms to prevent them from resettling on their own land.
There is a war over Karabakh today. Armenia-Azerbaijan War. In fact, Karabakh is an ancient Kurd land. But even the name of the Kurds is not even called. Even the name of the Kurds is in the documents of international institutions. This suggests that the anti-Kurd world order, established in the 1920s in the League of Nations and strengthened during the United Nations in 1945, has also come to life in the Caucasus. After the elimination of Red Kurdistan, the deportation of The Kurdistans to Russia, Central Asia, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan has created a great grievance in the Kurdistans. Because of the assimilation policies, especially in Azerbaijan, due to the assimilation policies applied to the Kurds, there is a situation where there is no More Kürdlük. What did Lenin and Stalin write about the Right of Nations to Determine Their Own Future in the 1910s, what actually happened during the Soviet Union, what happened? In fact, what happens in connection with the Kurds is the opposite of what is written in these books.
There are still Kurds on both sides of Karabakh, even if they are assimilation or exiles. It is possible that both administrations will continue to fight the troops formed by the Kurds. On behalf of both states, it is possible for the Kurds to fight each other. This is the makus fortune of the Kurds. The United Nations is an organization of states, not nations, as it lives in its name. When the time and place come, these states can ignore and violate the rights of some nations. Kürdler, who is under pressure from at least four states in this process, immediately attracts attention. Even in such a process, the United Nations is on the side of states, not nations. The Kurd presence in the Caucasus was destroyed in such a process.
Today, it can be said that a large part of Karabakh’s population, even close to the entire population, is Armenian. Before the 1990s, there was also a strong Kurd presence in Karabakh. They were also expelled in the 1992 Azerbaijani-Armenian war… And a Karabakh of this structure does not want to connect to Azerbaijan. That was the case in the 1920s. But that day, the rulers of the Soviet Union connected Karabakh to Azerbaijan as an autonomous region. Karabakh is called ‘Azerbaijani territory’. Whereas, today, here, more Armenians live. It can be said that the basic principles of the Right of Nations to Determine Their Own Futures were neutralized in those days.
Prof. Dr. Kinyaze İbrahim Mîrsoyev’s interview with Cesim Ilhan from Kurdistan24 is remarkable in this respect. On October 7, 2020, this interview, which took place on k24, was published with the headline ‘Azerbaijani assymsed the Kurds, the Armenians emigrated.’ Kinyaze Ibrahim explains that he lived in Yerevan until 1992, when the Armenian-Azerbaijani war began, he ran away from Yerevan and settled in Kazakhstan. Many in Azerbaijan have been assymed, saying that 500,000 Kurds live. He says there are about 150,000 Kurds living in Kazakhstan. The Kurds living in Kazakhstan have more of their own identities and institutions, and the State of Kazakhstan has prepared a suitable basis for this, he said. Kinyaze Ibrahim says that before the 1992 war, more than 30,000 Kurds lived in Karabakh, and today, there are no Kurds left. Sunni Kurds are all exiled, the rest are Azidi Kurds, he says. The Armenian leadership only call them Azidis. He carefully avoids saying they’re kurds. Their population is around 40,000, he said. Kinyaze Ibrahim, ‘at the end of the war, Karabakh, azerbaijan again, if the kürds are likely to return to their territory,’ he says.
Kinyaze İbrahim, k24’dan Cesim Ilhan’ın questions, today, baku cultural studies about the Kurds are also telling. State radio also said that kurdish broadcasting is broadcast twice a week. Prof. Dr. Kinyaze Ibrahim Mîrsoyev also mentions YekbunTV, founded by Kurdler in Russia. they’re trying to form a unit from the disbanded, distributed Kurds. He says they broadcast twice a week on language and culture.
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