i will be honest here i don't have much knowledge regarding your conflict with the Turks....on Palestine there is clarity because the oppressor happens to be Non-Muslim country...just get the feeling here that tackling ISIS is not seen as a priority
Let me sum it up for you. The Ottoman Empire had fallen. Ataturk stepped out as the savior of a Turkish republic who didn't even consider himself as muslim. Turkey was created but during negoitation talks after Turkey's defeat in ww1, it was planned for Kurds to have their own state. But Turkey didn'taccept that and the west didn't really bother plus Kurds weren't even given a voice. Turkey wasn't a muslim state at all. It was a secularist ultra nationalist state. Within those borders there lived a big ethnic group called the Kurds. At the begining everything was fine until pan-turan policies came into order. Kurdish language was forbidden, Kurdish culture was forbidden, Kurdish names of rivers, mountains, cities, villages all was forcibly changed into Turkish. EVERYTHING GOT TURKIFIED and u consider a Muslim state to do such an act? Not even IS are as sick as them, atleast they recognize a geographical area called Kurdistan. Even Ataturk did but his predecessors... Kurds were heavily opressed. Imagine China coming taking over Pakiststan, forcing you all to stop speaking your native languages and just speak chinese. Force their culture upon you, change the names of your valleys and cities to chinese, not even allowing you to have a Pakistani name. Turkey even banned 3 letters since they were common in Kurdish language, how sick is that?! You see what I mean?
Since then Kurds have gone through numerous rebellions against the occupier state.
The Dersim Rebellion:
"In explaining the reason for the Kurdish rebellion to the British foreign secretary Anthony Eden he said the following:[6]
The government has tried to assimilate the Kurdish people for years, oppressing them, banning publications in Kurdish, persecuting those who speak Kurdish, forcibly deporting people from fertile parts of Kurdistan for uncultivated areas of Anatolia where many have perished. The prisons are full of non-combatants, intellectuals are shot, hanged or exiled to remote places. Three million Kurds, demand to live in freedom and peace in their own country.
Note: it is very likely that this letter was not sent by Seyid Riza, but by a Kurdish nationalist from Dersim who took refuge in Syria, named Nuri Dersimi. He was trying to get support for the Kurdish nationalist cause from Western powers (which he didn't get). The Turkish state used the letter to incriminate Seyid Riza of rebelling against the state but never proved that the letter was written by him. English archives supposedly show that the signature underneath was from Nuri Dersimi.[7]
Sheikh Said Rebellion:
The Azadî was dominated by officers from the former Hamidiye, a Kurdish tribal militia established under the Ottoman Empire to deal with the Armenians and sometimes even to keep the Kizilbash under control. According to various historias the main reason the revolt took place was that various elements of Turkish society were unhappy with Mustafa Kemal Atatürk's abolition of the Islamic Caliphate system. There have been questionable British sources who label this as a nationalistic revolt by Kurds[
citation needed]. While it can be considered we must understand that Britain was a sworn enemy of both the Islamic Caliphate and the Turks. According to British intelligence reports, the Azadî officers had eleven grievances. Apart from inevitable Kurdish cultural demands and complaints of Turkish maltreatment, this list also detailed fears of imminent massdeportations of Kurds. They also registered annoyance that the name Kurdistan did not appear on maps, at restrictions on the Kurdish language and on Kurdish education and objections to alleged Turkish economic exploitation of Kurdish areas, at the expense of Kurds.[
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It was Sheikh Said who convinced Hamidiye commanders to support a fight for the return of Islamic Caliphate system.[9]
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