Word: kurdistan
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...gave up his evasive fight, admitted that the Kurds had revolted, under the leadership of Sheik Said, against the National Turkish Government at Angora. He further admitted that the revolt was serious. Martial law was proclaimed. Eight Turkish divisions (two-fifths of the entire Standing Army) were dispatched to Kurdistan* to quell the bloodthirsty Kurds. Five classes of conscripts were called to the colors. General Ismet Pasha, onetime Prime Minister, was appointed to command military operations. It was impossible to determine the extent or the success of the fighting, as reports were as speedily denied as they were issued...
...Homeric (White Star)-"H. R. H. the Emir of Kurdistan...
...terms of the Sevres Treaty, which Turkey signed but would not ratify, dispossessed Turkey of all her non-Ottoman territories, divided the provinces of Anatolia and Kurdistan into spheres of influence for the benefit of the Allies, and placed Turkey-in-Europe, ending at the Tehatalja line, under an internation al regime. Turkey was merely a geographical expression...
...most important problems yet to be settled by separate negotiation, included in the first Treaty, are: settlement of the Ottoman Debt; regulation of concessions; settlement of the Mosul question and the Iraq-Kurdistan frontier; conclusion ol separate judicial treaties granting rights of complaint to foreign legal advisers in place of capitulations. Although the treaty is signed, it must still be ratified by the Powers concerned before it becomes valid...
Owing to the unprecedented thaw of snow in the South Kurdistan mountains [Mesopotamia] the Tigris burst its left bank 17 miles north of Bagdad, leaving that city an island in a flooded area of 100 square miles. Both the Zab and the Little Zab rivers between Mosul and Bagdad are pouring their swollen tribute into the waters of the Tigris. It will be impossible to repair the breach until the river has fallen ten feet...