Kurdistan

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Komara Gel a Kurdistanê
People's Republic of Kurdistan
Conventional short name:
Local: Kurdîstan
English: Kurdistan
State flag of Kurdistan
National motto: "Kurdun heval ninin bes ciya" (The Kurds have no friends but the mountains)
Language: Kurdish dialects, Syriac, Armenian, Arabic, Persian
Cities:  
 Capital: Amed
 Largest: Amed
 Other: Erbil
General Secretary of the Kurdistan Workers' Party: Elî Ehmed Barzanî‎
Prime Minister: Dawid Zekeriya
Area: AREA
Population: 18,293,447 Kurdish
Independence: from Ottoman Empire
 Declared: 1920
 Recognized: DATE OF RECOGNITION
Independence: from Republic of Kurdistan
 Date: 1962
Currency: CURRENCY
Organizations: Communist International (Comintern)

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Kurdistan is a communist republic in the Middle East.


Administration

Government

Kurdistan is a communist state.

Administrative Divisions

LIST OF ADMINISTRATIVE DIVISIONS

History

Before the First Great War, most Kurds lived within the boundaries of the Ottoman Empire. After the collapse of the Ottoman Empire in 1922, several new countries were created within its former boundaries. Among them were Kurdistan, Armenia and Lebanon. However, the most important successor state of the Ottoman Empire was the Anatolian Kingdom of Turkey.

Displeased with the size of Turkey's territory, the its leadership initiated a long and costly war, but because of a transitory alliance of Kurdistan and Armenia, the Turks were finally defeated and a renegotiation induced, causing the Treaty of Lausanne, which rescinded all possible claims of Turkey, Iraaq and Syria to this land.

Kurdistan has minor oil producing capabilities, and was an instrumental staging ground in the Al-Basran War.

Geography

Borders

North: Armenia.
West: Turkey.
South: Syria, Iraaq.
East: Persia.