The Secession of Kurdistan

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The Kurds’ host states have consistently otherised the Kurds, subordinating the Kurdistani areas with discriminatory ethnic and religious policies. Colonisation is manifested internally, and the regions remain non-self-governing. Tehran, Ankara, and Damascus have disregarded the development of the poverty-stricken regions. Despite natural resources including oil, water and gold, Kurdistani segments suffer the highest unemployment rates while the capital earned from their resources is diverted to benefit the ruling powers. Militarisation and restrictions on Kurdish life typify conduct by the dominant states. Yet conditions still fall short of the threshold for unilateral secession which involves severe human rights violations, denial of internal self-determination, and the exhaustion of all available remedies.



The Kurds’ quest for self-determination involves four distinct yet interconnected territories within a single contiguous Kurdistan. Within territorially fragmented Greater Kurdistan, the terms Eastern phone number list Kurdistan (Rojhilat in Iran), Western Kurdistan (Rojava in Syria), Northern Kurdistan (Bakûr in Turkey), and Southern Kurdistan (Başȗr in Iraq) are used as geographic indicators, consistent with British government documents up to the 1920s and current Kurdish usage.

Human Right Records

Rojhilat (East)

The Kurds’ existence within the borders of the Iranian state is not officially denied. Nevertheless, to erase Kurdistani attributes the state has emphasised Persian identity, Farsi language as the sole official language and Shi’ite religion, along with militarisation and human rights violations. Persia’s name change to ‘Iran’ in 1935 in fact led to the subjugation, assimilation and suppression of all other national and ethnic groups.

Systematic, extrajudicial killings and the excessive use of force against the Kurds are noted in human rights reports. A disproportionately high number of Kurdish political prisoners receive the death sentence. Violations of Kurds’ economic, social, and cultural rights are commonly recorded. Even nature and the ecosystems of Rojhilat have been securitised and are not immune from Iranian state ecocide policies. As to the requirement that all remedies first be exhausted, the Kurds of Rojhilat have already reached a dead-end where political alternatives are not viable.