Kurdistan: The Military History of a Stateless Nation

I was in Syria 2017. The Kurds where and still are one of the most humble people I’ve ever met. They are kind, generous, and very resourceful. They also fight like dogs backed in a corner. They brought light to the ignorance that I had for the people who follow Islam. I left with a whole new understanding of the people and cultures of the Middle East. I hope one day they can have a land of their own.

We are working to build a strong country in the world. It will be great Kurdistan

LONG LİVE KURDİSTAN 🇹🇯🥰🖐️

I have some friends and family that fought in Iraq with the help of Kurdish fighters. They all have high praise for the Kurdish people.

From an outsider's perspective, there's very little not to like about the Kurdish people. They work hard, mind their own business when they can, and fight like hell when they have to. I don't think anyone really knows what their future holds, but I hope whatever happens, it leads to a more prosperous and peaceful future. They deserve as much, at the very least

What we need as Kurds: 1: Air Force. 2: an influential leader who can show our people that we can put our cultural differences to the side and stand together whether in Syria, Iraq, Iran, or Turkey. The money and western support is there for it. As the largest ethnic minority in the world without a country, it’s a slap in the face by the international community that more has not been done for us.

As a Kurd I believe you should have given more detail on anfal and how inhumanly brutal it was, I don't think it's talked about enough. It's extremely difficult for me to hear or see any pictures of it but I think the world needs to know for the sake of humanity and all the victims.

Wow, that is a classic underdog story if I ever heard one. I hope the Kurdish people can win their independence someday.

I think the Kurds deserve better than the card they’ve been dealt from your analysis. I hope the Kurd factions can put aside their differences and work together for independence

Thanks very much for your informations about great Kurdish people, which liev tausends of years in the same area. Salut from Switzerland with mounten and without see as Kürdistan.

I was stationed in Kirkuk in 2009. The Kurdish People were so good to us. Hopefully this video will help share their story

I’m from Mexico and even tho my country doesn’t have any reason to be involved with the Kurdistan problem but I still have nothing but respect for all the Kurdish people. I don’t know why other powers just couldn’t be fine with a Kurdish state

When I was in Iraq, during the US backed first election since the 1950s, there were seats in Iraqi parliament set aside for Kurdish leaders. They were in control of a large portion of Northern Iraq that US forces called Kurdistan and when our troops went there to visit the dam and even swim in the reservoir were able to walk around the Kurdish villages without their body armor and weapons. I was unable to go on the mission, though, so this is coming from my little brother and his rifle squad members (we were squad leaders together for ten out the thirteen months we spent there). Everyone of the twenty or so of our battalion's interpreters were Kurds and many of the Iraqi soldiers and police officers in the Mosul region were as well. Every single Kurdish soldier and police officer I met spoke Arabic, Kurdish, Turkish and English. A few spoke Russian and Persian. These weren't always traditionally educated men, though a few had graduated from the University of Mosul, but rather had learned all the languages out of both a need to survive and an unspoken good natured competition between one another as to whom could be the most fluent in the most languages. I found them all to be good men, highly intelligent soldiers and solid fighters.

Thank you Simon for telling a story about us, all Kurds appreciate it when someone from the outside acknowledges us.

I'm Iranian and I love Kurds, I love their culture and their language! I believe Kurdistan has enough cultural and geographical unity to turn into a country. they are lovely people ,I have had classmates from Kermanshah, he was one of my best friends during mid-school. Also I strongly believe that Middle East before British colonisation have had open boarders in between ethnicities, there were no clear boarder, there were Turkish and Persian and Arabic cities who decided to protect certain geographical regions ,but never like after what the world has become after World War Two. I think the strong boarder ownerships began in Middle East region with the British, where they sow regions as belongings and wealth , you can ask any Arab ,Kurd, Turkish, Armenian ,Persian you know and they will agree, there were no boarder ownership in entire Middle East and because of that ethnicities rarely fought and if they did there usually was a conflict between sultans that forced them to join X or Y army. Kurds just like all other ethnicities in Middle East have a large population, they are the decedents of the Ancient Medes & Hattush (Hitties). so we know that they have had their own historical eras at some point. There always been good relations between Kurds and their neighbours up untill saddam and all other dictators who emerged after him in the region that is why it is important to keep in mind as any included/neighbouring people to Kurdistan that it would be a different relation between us if we went to war against Kurds than peacefully accepting their demand, remember these boarders we have today? they were not the boarders we decided to have, if the problem will solve with separation of Kurdistan so let it be so, we have a stronger bound in between us. I rather this friendship between us and Kurds because they are great people than destroying it because of greed and pride, I would hate it if I know one day people in my country and people in Kurdistan would have a slightest hate towards each other that was the product of a war that happened between our people. that has more value to us than having different shape on a worthless political map, remember we are human at the first place, and to be realistic about nationality, there is only one country we should all worry about and that is the Earth itself.

Love the Kurds they are great people. We should do more to help them rather than countries that hate us.

I spent over a year working with the Kurds back in 08. Couldn’t be more impressed with their soldiers, especially in comparison with their Iraqi counterparts. Professional and proficient. We were happy to trust them, while we couldn’t trust any other indig force.

Long live Kurdistan ❤

Thank you for taking on this topic.

I lived in the Erbil area for summer 2014-2016. The Kurds are good people.