here is some info you dumb barbarian turkfrom ancient to recent history.Kurdistan as regions1. Corduene(Armenian: Կորճայք, also known as , Korduene, Korchayk, Gordian, Hebrew: [קרטיגיני ) was Kingdom of Armenia's sixth province, located in nowadays
Turkish Kurdistan.Corduene's territory was 14,707 km2 (6,000 sq mi) and had 11 cantons:
OriginsAccording to Arshak Safrastian, the Medes and Scythians mentioned in classical Greek literature existed only as preconceived notions. Equating the Carduchi with the Gutians, he adds that the moment the Ten Thousand began to skirt the lower slopes of the Hamrin Mountains (iraqi kurdistan), they were in contact with the tribes of Gutium which are presented here as Medes or Scythians.
2. Land of kurds. these 2 maps prove kurdistan existed as a region not so much as its current name maybe but many countries like turkey iraq Syria didn't have their current names prior to 1923.
I am going to give some information about Kurds According to a Turkish Sources.
This map was made Mahmud al-Kashgari in 1074
Look at the map you can see middle east ( Erdul Ekrad ) in Arabic it says "Land of Kurds"
Source [url]http://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kâşgarlı_Mahmud[/url]
3. Kurdistan region .
The map of Ottoman Empire was made in 1893 during Abdul Hamid II
There is Kurdistan If you can read Arabic alphabet There is wide land called "Kurdistan" It means that Kurdistan existed as a name and region before Turkey as a name. it also shows Kerkuk part of Kurdistan which today some turks claim it to belong to a minority of turkmens , the city was originally "built by kurds and was named Arrpkha i myself am from Kerkuk- zadi suburb , but that's another thing not going there.
Source [url]http://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osmanlı_İmparatorluğu[/url]
Kurdistan as a country through out history1.
Republic of AraratHistory:the Republic of Ararat or Kurdish Republic of Ararat was a self-proclaimed Kurdish state.
The Republic of Ararat led by the central committee of Xoybûn party (founded by Kurds and Armenians) declared independence on October 28, 1927 or 1928, during a wave of rebellion among Kurds in southeastern Turkey.
The Ararat rebellion was led by General Ihsan Nuri Pasha. In October 1927, Kurd Ava or Kurdava, a village near Mount Ararat was designated as the provisional capital of Kurdistan. Xoybûn made appeals to the Great Powers and the League of Nations, and also sent messages to other Kurds in Iraq and Syria to ask for co-operation.
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2.Kingdom of KurdistanThe Kingdom of Kurdistan can refer to two short-lived unrecognized states formed in the 1920s in the geo-cultural region of Kurdistan after the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, in the territory officially under the jurisdiction of the British Mandate of Mesopotamia.1921–1924.
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3. Republic of Kurdistan in the Capital of Mahabad
The Republic of Mahabad, also called the State of the Republic of
Kurdistan) is established in eastern Kurdistan on 22 January 1946. It is the third
contemporary Kurdish state, after the armed resistance against Sex Mahmoud
Berzence English imperialism and the armed struggle against the imperialist
states for the Turkish Foundation of Independent Kurdistan Government in
Kocgiri March 21 of 1921 until 1938 Resistance Army Dersim including the
Republic of Ararat in Turkey, it marks our tragic history in a historic turning
point .. Its capital is the Kurdish town of Mahabad in northwestern Iran. Its
existence is tied to the Soviet-Iranian conflict between the USA and the USSR.1946–1947.
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4. Defacto state of "Kurdistan Regional Government" or (KRG) established in 1991. this by far has been the longest Kurdish statehood thats is working towards total independence.
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