Khalid Issa: Kurds organized since ancient times, regimes tried to suppress them

Khaled Issa gave a lecture on the history of the Kurds in modern Syria at the Mesopotamia Academy of Social Sciences in al-Jazeera region, and pointed out that the Kurds have been organized since ancient times, and all successive regimes have tried to suppress Kurdish movement politically or militarily.

6 October, 2018 08:08

QAMIŞLO

A representative of the Democratic Autonomous Administration Khaled Issa spoke during the lecture about the struggle of the Kurdish people in the building of modern Syria after the departure of the Turkish forces and their German allies from Syria after the end of the First World War in 1918 and during the French mandate that began in 1920.

He pointed out that the Kurdish people have been organized at that phase, where there were political and military administrators within every area in Rojava, in Kobani canton, for example, Osman Sabri was the military official and Mustafa Shahid Bek was the political official. In Serêkaniyê district, Ibrahim Basha was the military officer, and in al-Derbasiah the general officer was Muhammad Bek, and in the areas of Tirbespiyê, Hajo Agha was the military official and Jladet Baderkhan, was a political official.

Khaled Issa pointed out that the national figures of that period supported al-Sheikh Saed revolution against the Turkish occupation in Bakur in 1925, but the Turkish occupation had squeal of those strugglers to the French mandate who arrested them and sent some of them to the areas of Deir ez-Zor, Damascus and Aleppo.

Khalid Issa pointed to the great role played by the Kurdish people and the Kurdish activists such as Yusuf al-Azmah during the French mandate for Syria, and the historical battle of Biandor in the areas of Tirbespiyê.

He said "After the French left Syria, the regimes which ruled Syria tried to suppress the Kurdish movement, especially after the Baath party took control of Syria, but all their attempts failed."

He pointed out to the struggle of the Kurds and the peoples of the area after the revolution of July 19, and said that the Kurdish people and the peoples of north and east of Syria have organized, united and formed their civil, military, security and service administrations, and every day this organization is increasing.

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