Introduction The Treaty of Versailles opened an age of broken promises. Woodrow Wilson’s Fourteen Points elevated self-determination into a universal principle, and the world’s stateless peoples believed it applied to them. The Kurds were betrayed and paid the highest price. Today roughly 40 million Kurds — the largest stateless nation on earth — live in…
Kurds have suffered a century of betrayal and abuse. Sheik Said launched the Kurdish resistance movement against the Turkish Republic in 1925. Kurdish fighters gained control of Bingöl, Diyarbakır, Erzurum, Mus and Urfa. However, they faced an overwhelming force and were defeated. Sheik Said and his associates were sentenced to death on June 28, 1925….