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BOOK 1 is NOW available: 1- ABOUT THE BOOK. 2- ABOUT THE AUTHOR. 3- FREE PREVIEW.
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ABOUT THE BOOK:
This is the first of the three book series from Steve Tataii’s Liberation of Iraq War memoirs, focusing on the Independent South Kurdistan news developments, which has been his ongoing contribution with spontaneous, critical and emotional writings in defense of the rights of over 5-7 million Kurds of South Kurdistan [the North of the defunct Iraq] in the past 3 years. He has written his responses in a decisive, intense, and prolific style as the events unfold and seen in the most recent, and fresh News developments in his contributing articles published throughout the world for News Websites such as www.KurdistanObserver.com , www.Klawrojna.com , www.Kurdishmedia.com , and many others, including print media.
On May, 22, 2004, Tataii nominated Mr. Talabani to become the president of “Arabistan” [South of Kurdish region], and President Massoud Barzani as the president of the Independent South Kurdistan in his famous article published in this book.
In his DEC 5, 2003 article Tataii called for Iraq to choose its original form of nationhood the way it used to be before 1920s; one state for Kurds in the North, and the other for Arabs in the South as you’ll read in this book under the title:
“The best solution is to divide Iraq into two Nations based on ethnicity: The Republic of South Kurdistan, and the Republic of Arabistan.”
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Steve Tataii is a prolific writer, who has been writing about the Liberation of Kurds since 1976, and his most intense writing began right before the start of the Iraq Liberation war on August 2002, when he was interviewed by Kurdish Media about his stance on Kurdish freedom and Independence particularly in South Kurdistan [North of the Liberated Iraq], and while campaigning for a seat in U.S. Congress as a grassroots candidate. He has two degrees from the University of Hawaii in Mathematics and Political Science. He speaks six languages, four of which are from the region, and has gifted Conflict Resolution skills on macro and micro levels. He has done extensive educational work as a lecturer on recent Kurdish political history. He has been writing his own speeches and articles both in Hawaii, a few other states, and also on his visit to Europe in 1989. The news of the “GAP” DAM project by Turkey, discovered from that 1989 trip, was most vital to the survival of the Kurds in their valleys with thousands of Kurdish villages. On his return home in Hawaii, he authored two of many resolutions, which called to put a moratorium on Turkey’s attempt to build more than 20 DAMS in North Kurdistan, South East of Turkey, at the “WILD” conference of the indigenous peoples held at the University of Hawaii. The DAMS would have uprooted more than 5 thousands villages with over 6 million Kurds inhabiting them for thousands of years, and would have destroyed thousands of native endangered species found no where else. A Kurd from both Kurdish parents himself, he has firmly believed; that the best solution to Kurdish people’s stateless dilemma, aside an already Independent South Kurdistan, for the other three parts, will be through peaceful political negotiations and political solutions.
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"Independent South Kurdistan":
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THE WAR OF LIBERATION AFTER 85 YEARS
Unfair treatment of the Kurds by Turkey shows it is still the true terrorist military regime in the region without improvement since 1915 Kamal Ataturk’s Tyrannical Rule with his forceful Westernization.
[”This is the Modified version of my article first posted by
Kurdistan Observer on April 10, 2003”]
This war and all other wars in Southern and Northern Kurdistan have been caused by Turkey’s barbaric and senseless prevention of forming an Independent Kurdistan in 1920, keeping the 5-7 million Kurds in Southern Kurdistan and more tan 25 million Kurds in North Kurdistan (a figure Turkey has tried to conceal), [as well as over 2.5 million Kurds in West Kurdistan Syria Cannot deny], in constant bloody clashes and wars for freedom in the past 85 years. If the League of Nations had implemented an independent Kurdistan in 1920s; there would have been no wars, and no Tyrant regimes in Iraq would have dared to emerge. What Turkey did against Kurds in 1920 has had a similar domino effect in the other 3 Kurdish parts.
As I have stated before, and I say it again: in simple terms, Turkey, which has the gall to accuse the Kurdish freedom fighters as terrorists and render this malicious verbal assault on Kurds and endanger our U.S. troops while in action to liberate Iraq, is the most dangerous terrorist regime itself; hence Turkey has been the only major threat to peace, security, and stability in the region, and in essence must be disarmed immediately. American and Kurdish Peshmarga must always keep this crucial fact in mind and deal with it accordingly as a move to disarm Turkish terrorist military establishment as quickly as possible if they refuse to have a positive change in their military-Ruled regime.
Here is a quick and comprehensive look at Turkey’s major international crimes since 1920:
The origin of the whole dilemma causing a war for liberation by Kurds in their own ancient homeland encompassing an area as large as California began around 85 years ago. By 1920 the vast Ottoman Empire fell apart after the WWI, and its nations were left with no central power to answer to “Sultans” in the fallen Capitol City of the Ottoman Empire in Constantinople, today known as “Istanbul”.
Kurdistan was scheduled to be an Independent country of its own together with a few other nations on the listed nations of the drafted treaty of Sevres being implemented by the League of Nations to bring peace, security, and stability in the post ottoman empire era.
All those nations living peacefully side by side within the Ottoman Empire including those located in Lebanon, Jordan, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and the reduced portion of the Empire itself, “Turkey”, did achieve their independence through that treaty, but the nations of Kurdistan, Azerbaijan, and Armenia did not because of the left over and reduced portion of the Empire, namely "Turkey."
With its expansionist greedy nature, a hegemony of its predecessor bigger Ottoman, it was still trying to act with ambition for land snatching, even if it would trample upon Kurdistan’s sovereignty.
Kurdistan, today home to over 45 million Kurds, is the largest nation without a country, no thanks to Turkey with the help of its supporters “Great Britain and France”, which continued its tyrannical and dictatorial stranglehold on its own nearly 25 million Kurds, and forcing their war of Liberation to continue in the past 85 years. The other two major portions of Kurdistan are in Iraq with 5-7 million Kurds, and Iran with over 15 million Kurds, and Syria with 2.5 million Kurds, each causing the Kurds wars, genocides, executions, ethnic cleansings, torture, imprisonments, and oppression.
In short, this war is mainly due to what Turkey initiated, and other parts followed in a domino effect since around 1920. When Turkey, under the brutal regime of Kemal Ataturk, who continued its campaigns of genocide against Kurds and Armenians, killing over a million Kurds along with their political leaders, as well as over 2 million Armenians. This was the beginning of a prolonged war for liberation by Kurds, Armenians, and Azeris. Armenia and Azerbaijan luckily obtained their independence after the fall of another Empire, “the USSR”, after the end of the Cold War in 1989, but Kurds remained captive.
Therefore, this war has many untold stories, but there is no question about Turkey’s initial foul play when it interfered with the implementation of the treaty of Serves by the League of Nations’ Independence treaty, when the League did not safeguard the plan for Kurds, Armenians, and Azeri nations within the fallen Empire due to Ataturk’s iron fist colonialist military attacks, when the League abandoned its obligation to the most ancient nation of Kurds with 12,000 years of civilization. Although Armenia and Azerbaijan got their Independence in 1989 after the fall of U.S.S.R., but Kurdistan, mainly outside of U.S.S.R., continues to remain without an officially recognized state to this day.
Particularly, the Independent South Kurdistan is yet to be officially recognized as a UN member state even while we have Liberated the Iraqi region after invasion, but it is totally unrealistic and ludicrous to even think that the two nations of Kurds and Arabs in “Iraq” since 1920s wrongfully drawn up map aimed to exploit Kurdish natural resources in Kirkuk Kurdistan, and Basra oilfields in the South, after 85 years of wars; suddenly restart another chapter of wars to be left alone, and live in their own independent states in peace and security.
This intended “piracy” of the colonial past has become the most vicious and malicious plot against the entire nation of Kurds, which has so far left around 3.5 million innocent Kurdish civilians killed in series of wars, and bombings, but most of all “Ethnic cleansing” in the large provinces of Kirkuk Kurdistan and Mosul against the Kurds in the artificial “Iraq”, and North Kurdistan usurped by Turkey, as well as West Kurdistan usurped by Syria.
Our attempt at “unification” of the two totally diverse ethnic groups of Ancient Kurds and the desert Arabs of South is utterly irresponsible and insensitive. Some of our administration’s spokespersons’ immature and naïve statements of “the Kurds themselves told me they don’t want to be independent” is unbelievably stupid and internationally criminal. The Kurds have held half a dozen of Referendums and elections since our invasion in 2003, and have signed declarations at the rate of 98% of their entire Kurdish population, declaring that they want to live in an Independent South Kurdistan as you’ll read in my book series’ printed published articles.
What we must focus on now; is to declare and recognize an Independent South Kurdistan as quickly as possible before it is later than the three years gone by, and before we cause further tensions, and possible clashes between Kurds and Arabs in Kirkuk, the inseparable part of Kurdistan. The unstable part of the defunct “Iraq” in South is not and should not be imposed on the Kurds. To establish security in the South should not be prerequisite to Kurdish Independence in South Kurdistan, ready to be officially recognized as a nation state in the past 15 years.
All those wise guy journalists trumpeting their statements about Kirkuk having other minorities other than Kurds should really shut the hell up, because it is obvious that they their own paid agendas to do their dirty work for their masters, and the pushing of this anti-Kurd agenda has gone on far enough.
Our U.S. Administration should wake up and smell the coffee, because they’re forcing the Kurds to fight for what belongs to them and has been their homeland and their territory from time immemorial.
Finally, the Kurds have gone far beyond their line of duties to help our “Iraq” Liberation. They understand; that it would have taken longer to Liberate Kirkuk and Mosul if it wasn’t for our invasion to remove the pathetic Saddam, but there should not be any negotiations over the fact that Kurds want their Independence, and there should not be any doubts about Kirkuk Kurdistan’s inclusion within the Independent South Kurdistan.
The more we prolong this matter; the closer it may get to another war within the already existing unfinished war to secure the South. We have repeatedly admitted we are not there for oil. What we should do then, we must get on with Liberating the Kurds, and securing an Arab government for the South. We can’t have it both ways, and we won’t succeed in our plan of unification as an exit strategy. Once we have an official Independent South Kurdistan, then we may focus on the remainder of the task, which appears to be the lack of security in the Arab provinces. The Kurds have done their share. Isn’t it time we let the Kurds be, and instead help their nation after 85 years of wars?
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