Un popolo senza nazione: le ceneri della Grande Guerra e la mancata nascita del Kurdistan

Abstract

The history of Kurds and Kurdistan is a long way made up of persecutions, contentions and deportations from the 16th century to the present. The Kurds, divided into four different nations (Iran, Iraq, Turkey and Syria), founded into World War I the chance to carry forward their claims, above all the idea and the desire to be an independent state after the collapse of the Ottoman Empire. The Fourteen Points by American President Woodrow Wilson seemed to be the perfect international law framework to became a separate state; in 1920 the Treaty of Sèvres seemed to inherit this spirit, drawing into articles 62,63 and 64 of section III the future of Kurdistan. Unfortunately, only three years later, the Treaty of Lausanne revoked, de jure, the idea of a free Kurdistan, forcing Kurdish people to lie as minority into four different states.