Timeline of Kurdish uprisings
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List of conflicts
[edit]Date | Uprising | Location | Result |
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838–841[1] | Kurdish Dasni tribe uprising against the Abbasids | Abbasid Caliphate | Suppressed |
955–1071[2][3][4] | War against the Musafirid. | Rawadid dynasty | Victory |
1045 | Battle of Dvin | Shaddadids | Victory |
990–1085 | Kurdish uprising | The Marwanids | Victory, led to the birth of the Marwanids dynasty |
1506–1510 | Kurdish-Yazidi uprising against the Safavids[5] | Safavid Persia | Suppressed when the Yazidi leader, Shír Ṣárim, was defeated in battle. |
1609–1610 | Battle of Dimdim[6] | Safavid Persia | Suppressed |
1775 | Bajalan uprising[7] | Zand dynasty | Suppressed |
1806–1808 | Baban uprising[8] | Ottoman Empire | Suppressed |
1880–1881 | Revolt by Sheikh Ubeydullah of Nehri against the Qajars.[9][10] | Qajar Persia & Ottoman Empire | Defeat |
Early March – 4 April 1914 | Bitlis uprising | Ottoman Empire | Suppressed |
1914 – 1917 | Kurdish rebellions during World War I | Ottoman Empire | Establishment of a quasi-independent Kurdish state until 1919 |
1919–1922 – First Mahmud Barzanji Revolt | First Mahmud Barzanji revolt | Kingdom of Iraq | Suppressed |
1918–1922 | First Simko Shikak revolt | Qajar Persia | Suppressed |
1918–2003 | Iraqi–Kurdish conflict | Iraq | Victory |
1918–present | Kurdish–Iranian conflict | Qajar Persia | Ongoing |
6 March – 17 June 1921 | Koçgiri rebellion | Turkey | Suppressed |
November 1922 – July 1924 | Second Mahmud Barzanji revolt | Kingdom of Iraq, Kingdom of Kurdistan | Creation of the Kingdom of Kurdistan[11][12] |
August 1924 | Beytussebab rebellion | Turkey | Suppressed |
8 February – March 1925 | Sheikh Said rebellion[9] | Turkey | Suppressed |
1926 | Second Simko Shikak revolt | Pahlavi Persia | Suppressed, Simko Shikak flees to Mandatory Iraq |
October 1927 – September 17, 1930 | First, second and third Ararat rebellion[13][14][15][16][17] | Republic of Ararat, Republic of Turkey | Suppressed, Republic of Ararat disbanded. |
1931 | Jafar Sultan revolt | Iran | Suppressed |
1931–1932 | Ahmed Barzani revolt | Kingdom of Iraq | Suppressed, low-level insurgency continues through 1933, another revolt by Barzanis erupts in 1943 |
1935 | Yazidi revolt of 1935 | Mandatory Iraq | Suppressed |
20 March – November, 1937 and 2 January – December, 1938 | Dersim rebellion | Republic of Turkey | Suppressed, see Dersim Massacre |
1941–1944 | Hama Rashid revolt | Pahlavi Iran | Suppressed, Hama Rashid driven into Iraq |
November 1945 – December 15, 1946 | Iran crisis of 1946[18] | Pahlavi Iran, Republic of Mahabad | Creation of the Soviet-backed Republic of Mahabad, revolt later suppressed |
11 September 1961 – 1970 | First Iraqi–Kurdish War | Republic of Iraq | Stalemate, led to the Iraqi-Kurdish Autonomy Agreement of 1970 |
1967 | 1967 Kurdish revolt in Iran | Pahlavi Iran | Suppressed |
April 1974 – 1975 | Second Iraqi–Kurdish War | Iraq | Suppressed, the Iraqi government re-establishes control over Kurdistan |
1976–1978 | PUK insurgency | Iraq | Indecisive, led to the Kurdish rebellion of 1983 |
1979 | 1979 Kurdish rebellion in Iran | Iran | Suppressed |
1983–1986 | Kurdish rebellion of 1983 | Iraq | Indecisive, led to the Al-Anfal Campaign |
15 August 1984 – present | Kurdish–Turkish conflict | Republic of Turkey | Ongoing[19][20][21][22][23][24][25] |
1986–1996 | KDPI insurgency | Government of Iran | Suppressed; KDPI announces unilateral cease-fire in 1996 |
1 March – 5 April 1991 | 1991 Iraqi uprisings | Ba'athist Iraq, Iraqi Kurdistan | Victory; establishment of the Kurdish Autonomous Republic, also known as Iraqi Kurdistan |
March 2004 | 2004 Qamishli riots | Syria | Suppressed |
1 April 2004–present | Iran–PJAK conflict | Iran | Ongoing |
19 July 2012–present | Rojava conflict of the Syrian civil war | Syria | Kurdish fighters have taken control of 365 towns and villages in Syrian Kurdistan and 2 districts in Aleppo by September 2012.[26] |
24 July 2015 – present | Kurdish–Turkish conflict | Republic of Turkey | Ongoing |
19 April 2016 – present | Western Iran clashes | Iran | Ongoing |
24 August 2016 – present | Turkish military intervention in Syria | Syria | Ongoing |
15 – 27 October 2017 | 2017 Iraqi–Kurdish conflict | Iraq, Iraqi Kurdistan | Ceasefire, Iraqi Kurdistan loses territory, including Sinjar and Kirkuk |
See also
[edit]- A Modern History of the Kurds by David McDowall
References
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- ^ Hugh Kennedy, The Prophet and the Age of the Caliphates The Kurdish dynasties which emerged in the second half of tenth century...the Rawwadids
- ^ Sharaf Khan Bidlisi The Sharafnam̂a Rawwadi Kurds..
- ^ Ian Richard Netto, Encyclopaedia of Islam "There was a succession of Kurdish dynasties such as ... Rawwadids of Tabriz and Azerbayjan"
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- ^ "DIMDIM". Archived from the original on October 11, 2008. Retrieved February 21, 2007.
- ^ "Iranica - Search Results". Archived from the original on 2011-07-16. , p.533.
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- ^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 15 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 951.
- ^ Stokes, Jamie (2009). Encyclopedia of the Peoples of Africa and the Middle East, Kingdom of Kurdistan. Infobase. ISBN 9781438126760. Retrieved 5 November 2014.
- ^ Asadi, Awat (2007). Der Kurdistan-Irak-Konflikt: der Weg zur Autonomie seit dem ersten Weltkrieg. Verlag Hans Schiler. ISBN 9783899300239. Retrieved 5 November 2014.
- ^ Yusuf Mazhar, Cumhuriyet, 16 Temmuz 1930, ... Zilan harekatında imha edilenlerin sayısı 15,000 kadardır. Zilan Deresi ağzına kadar ceset dolmuştur...
- ^ Ahmet Kahraman, ibid, p. 211, Karaköse, 14 (Özel muhabirimiz bildiriyor) ...
- ^ Ayşe Hür, "Osmanlı'dan bugüne Kürtler ve Devlet-4" Archived 2011-02-25 at the Wayback Machine, Taraf, October 23, 2008, Retrieved August 16, 2010.
- ^ M. Kalman, Belge, tanık ve yaşayanlarıyla Ağrı Direnişi 1926–1930, Pêrî Yayınları, İstanbul, 1997, ISBN 975-8245-01-5, p. 105.
- ^ "Der Krieg am Ararat" (Telegramm unseres Korrespondenten) Berliner Tageblatt, October 3, 1930, "... die Türken in der Gegend von Zilan 220 Dörfer zerstört und 4500 Frauen und Greise massakriert."
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- ^ "Turkey: PKK leader calls halt to armed struggle". Ansamed. 21 March 2013. Archived from the original on 20 June 2018. Retrieved 21 March 2013.
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