The historical development of Kurdish nationalism in Iraq

Seminar paper from the year 2016 in the subject History - Miscellaneous, , language: English, abstract: This paper is devoted to the issue of development of Kurdish nationalism in Iraq in the years 1921 to 1946. The work is written from a historical perspective. The research aims to explore how Kurdish nationalism has been formed under British colonial mandate system and in periods of pro-British government in Iraq. It seeks the piv-otal factors both internal and external that had an impact on formation of Kurdish nationalism in Iraq.

The basic assumption of the work is that Kurdish nationalism was shaped under grave pressure and manipulation by British and Iraq authorities. The paramount question of the work is what the British policy toward Kurds in Iraq was and how it provoked the Kurdish nationalism in Iraq.

Kurds in Iraq have been trapped into the great predicament after the advent of British force in Iraq. Britain¿s hasty calculations over never implemented into life Kurdish "buffer state" and some uncertainty regarding the Kurdish fate that became obvious during and after the Cairo Conference in 1921 and its final decision to install the unitary Iraq nation-state with Kurdish minority gave rise to Kurdish nationalism that opted for to do not neglect its fate and struggle for some national rights. Both Kurds and British had arguments against each other. Kurds felt to some extend deceived by British when Britain withdrew from idea to grant self-determination right to Kurdish nation. Britain in opposite utilized the argu-ment that Kurds being multi-polarized was not able to consolidate under certain authority.