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it called attention to the plight of an ancient people with its own history culture and language not arabic nor turkish the. kurds are scattered across modern day iraq syria and turkey people without a state forgotten during the division of the ottoman empire. until the nineteenth century the kurds didn t have a national identity they merely saw themselves as subjects of the ottoman empire as part of ottoman society. on an empire identity who is defined by religious rather than national turns there was lemons and no muslims since the kurds were muslims they were treated like the majority of muslims although they had semi autonomous status they too had to pay taxes and do military service that prevented the
france. on july twenty fourth one nine hundred twenty eight the final battle took place near my saloon four days later faisal was forced into exile. it was the ultimate british betrayal of the promises that they made to the hashemites and was to remain what for arab nationalists would prove the and resolved failure of the british to uphold their promises to the arabs to their right to shape their own future and in so doing of course created the problem that would be deviled the arab world right through the twentieth century of reconciling the legitimacy of the frontiers in which the states of the arab world would be made to live not just in syria but in iraq in jordan and palestine eleven on it was to shape the into war years as a moment of national struggle by divided arabs against their european colonial masters. it was to distort arab politics rather.
when french british and italian forces occupied istanbul the ottoman government had to accept renewed territorial losses. we re doing a shark. many of us more on the loss of the time when the arab world and the middle east weren t yet geographically divided. yet he had the. southern lebanon and galilee where one region. the people traveled through trans-jordan as if it were all one country but at the same thing was true of syria and palestine. for. people never knew anything else but when the british came and severed palestine from its arab
france going to. use their design independence independence from the ottoman empire and the rest of syria. on september the first one hundred twenty the new state of great eleven and was founded in beirut. to make it more economically viable the state also incorporated the coastal cities of tire and tripoli as well as the first town to come. further treaties followed the paris peace conference in san rima seven every treaty further divided the remnants of the ottoman empire.