Title: Kurds From Secession to Democratic Nation
Author: Brian Ahmed Zardasht
Place of publication: Baghdad
Publisher: Al-Bayan Center for Planning and Studies
Release date: 2024
The Kurdish issue is one of the most prominent issues in the Middle East, and the most complex, since the end of the two world wars and the end of colonialism in the region, which brought about the concept of the nation state, which has always been one of the most unjust concepts for the rights of the Kurdish people, as a nation and politically, and the feeling of oppression grew with the conclusion of international agreements such as the Convention Lausanne and Sykes-Picot, which stressed the impossibility of establishing a state for the Kurdish nation. Problems are raised here, the most prominent of which is: Does the solution to the Kurdish issue lie in establishing a national state? Will the nationalist orientation of the Kurds lead us to resolving this issue in the Middle East? Is it possible to find alternatives to the nation-state? In order to study these problems, this study is based on the hypothesis that: “It is possible for society to exist without a state, but the state is not possible without society,” which some nations have been able to benefit from in order to achieve their goals and demands, whether within the framework of the state or in the international community. One of the most important results of this paper is that establishing the nation-state is not the way. It is the only solution to guarantee the rights of the Kurds, and secession is not the solution. Rather, it constitutes an obstacle to coexistence within the framework of the Iraqi state.[1]