المبادرة السورية لحرية القائد عبدالله اوجلان

The Leader’s Sayings

* In the Battle of Chaldiran in 1514 against the expansion of the empire of the Iranian Safavid dynasty, the forces of the emirates and Kurdish tribes were greater in number than the Janissaries in the army of Sultan Yavuz Selim.

* It is more correct to look at the wars taking place in the lands of Kurdistan during the era of the Seljuk, Ayyubid, and Ottoman dynasties, as they were often wars fought by the Kurds against the occupying forces.

* The National Liberation War between 1920 and 1922 also falls within this list. What the Turks gained from these wars was that they had a permanent home in Anatolia, which they would not have had without the Kurds.

* It is impossible to record the history of the existence of both societies correctly, unless the nature of the relations that the Kurds concluded with the Turkish peoples, emirates, sultanates, and lineages is properly understood.