Kurdistan: Short-lived independent states

Last modified: 2003-01-18 by ivan sache
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• Emirate of Soran
• Kingdom of Southern Kurdistan
• Republic of Ararat

See also:

• Kurdistan
• The Mahabad Republic
• Kurdish parties in Iraq

Emirate of Soran

by Jaume Ollé

The first Kurdish state was the Emirate of Soran, proclaimed in 1816 and ended in 1835.

Jaume Ollé, 01 October 1997

Kingdom of Southern Kurdistan

by T. F. Mills

With the division of the Ottoman Empire at the end of First World War, the Kurds expected independence (like the Arabs and Armenians), and the 1920 Treaty of Sèvres provided for this. Turkey never ratified the treaty, and it was replaced by the 1923 Treaty of Lausanne, which made no mention of Kurdish independence.
Turkey did give up all non-Turkish areas lost in the war, and the Vilayet of Mosul was temporarily awarded to the multi-racial (Arab and Kurdish) state of Iraq. This decision was supposed to be revisited in 25 years, but no international body has done