Mustafa Barzani and the Kurdish Liberation Movement

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Overview

As a leader of the Kurdish national liberation movement for almost half a century, Mustafa Barzani witnessed many historical events that rocked the Middle East and had a strong impact on the fate of the Kurdish communities in the region. Barzani's life-long struggle began in 1907 when he was barely three years old, when he and his mother were incarcerated in the aftermath of a raid by the Ottoman Turkish forces. Barzani went on to spend most of his life fighting various governments partitioning Kurdistan. Barzani's son, Massoud, the president of the Kurdish Democratic Party (KDP) and currently the de facto ruler of much of Iraqi Kurdistan, has put together a valuable dossier of documents, stories, rare photos and has pieced them into a narrative in the first person with his reflections and analyses of historic events in the period 1931 to 1961.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780312293161
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication date:	01/01/2003
Edition description:	1st ed. 2090
Pages:	392
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.04(d)

About the Author

Massoud Barzani is the son of Mustafa Barzani.

Table of Contents

	Abbreviations	ix
	General Introduction	1
Part I.	The First Barzan Uprising (1931-1932)
	Introduction to Part I	11
Chapter 113
Chapter 217
Chapter 321
Chapter 427
Chapter 535
Chapter 639
	Extrapolation	47
Part II.	The Barzan Revolt (1943-1945)
	Introduction to Part II	49
Chapter 751
Chapter 855
Chapter 963
Chapter 1067
Chapter 1173
Chapter 1279
Chapter 1385
Chapter 1493
Part III.	The Barzan Revolt (1945-1958)
	Introduction to Part III	97
Chapter 1599
Chapter 16103
Chapter 17107
Chapter 18109
Chapter 19111
Chapter 20115
Chapter 21119
Chapter 22121
Chapter 23125
Chapter 24127
Chapter 25129
Chapter 26135
Chapter 27139
Chapter 28141
Chapter 29143
Chapter 30145
Chapter 31147
Chapter 32149
Part IV.	The Kurds and the July 14, 1958 Revolution
	Introduction to Part IV	151
Chapter 33157
Chapter 34161
Chapter 35165
Chapter 36173
Chapter 37189
Chapter 38195
Chapter 39199
Chapter 40201
Chapter 41207
Chapter 42209
Chapter 43213
Chapter 44221
Chapter 45223
Chapter 46231
	Documents	233
Appendix 1	Players of Major Roles in the 1943-1945 Battles	359
Appendix 2	List of Armed Men Who Accompanied Barzani in the Historic March to the Soviet Union	361
	Notes	375
	Bibliography	389