Kurdish Liberation Army?

Hashasheen

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Challenge:
find a way to make a powerful veitcong-style kurdish militia through iraq, syria, iran and turkey, dedicated to creating a kurdish nation, it has to be unified under one command, and be preferably socialist or islamist.
my own idea is for it to happen in the iran-iraq war, that changes into a 3 way war between turkey, iraq,iran, or starting up in the islamic revolution in Iran.
 
Kurds are mountain folks, and hillmen are extremely different to unite. Mustafa Barzani almost pulled the trick in 1940s, but it only caused all other clan lords to unite against him. Besides, Vietcong drew it's strength from Soviet support, among other sources. I don't see who can play patron saint for Kurds (USSR did in 1940s, but region is too sensitive for West to allow Reds to play this game much longer).
 
Challenge:
find a way to make a powerful veitcong-style kurdish militia through iraq, syria, iran and turkey, dedicated to creating a kurdish nation, it has to be unified under one command, and be preferably socialist or islamist.
my own idea is for it to happen in the iran-iraq war, that changes into a 3 way war between turkey, iraq,iran, or starting up in the islamic revolution in Iran.

How would you do a three-way war? Turkey could beat Iran and Iraq combined - if they're fighting each other too, it would be a short war.

Also, I have news for you, there already is a Vietcong-style Kurdish militia running around...
 
How would you do a three-way war? Turkey could beat Iran and Iraq combined - if they're fighting each other too, it would be a short war.

Also, I have news for you, there already is a Vietcong-style Kurdish militia running around...

Yeah, that's what I was thinking about when I first read this thread. However, it doesn't fit all of the categories that were set down. But he should look up the PKK anyway...
 
Could the PKK have ever united all Kurds behind them?

How well supported are they in Turkish Kurdistan?

Are they a 'Turkish Kurd' moevement, and if so, what would be needed for them and their appeal to be 'Pan-Kurdic'?
 
If you have a WWI POD then you could make the Ottoman Empire a little more successful, and keep the Kurdish pieces of Syria (not sure what vilayet this was) and Iraq (the Mosul vilayet) in the Ottoman Empire (which will still become Turkey), then you would unify the vast majority of the Kurdish people in one country. This will massively aid in creating a unified Kurdish liberation movement.

With the vast majority of the Kurdish population now under the rule of the Kurds, I think that the Kurds will probably be able to cobble together a coalition resistance movement. This alt-Turkey will not significantly change history in the first half of the 20th Century, it will however be an important change in the aftermath of WWII. Barzani begins to build a resistance movement through the 1940's, and begins to gain Soviet support. Once the Turkish communists are crushed in the late 40's, Soviet support will switch fully to the Kurdish Liberation Organization (or whatever Barzani's organization is called).

I don't think that this will come to anything. The Turks have American support, the Iranians have American support, the Soviets know that Turkey is not going to be disemboweled by a Kurdish resistance movement. Basically, the Turks can carry out a counter-insurgency campaign and wipe out the KLO.

The only way I can see some kind of successful Kurdish resistance movement is if the Kurds can rise during WWII and get the Soviets to invade eastern Anatolia. This might help out the Kurds, but the Soviets withdrew from Azeri-dominated regions of Iran they invaded, and the Soviet invasion would only increase American aid to the Turks.
 
Could the PKK have ever united all Kurds behind them?

How well supported are they in Turkish Kurdistan?

Are they a 'Turkish Kurd' moevement, and if so, what would be needed for them and their appeal to be 'Pan-Kurdic'?

I suggest you check why Turkey is unhappy with US providing weapons to the Kurds in Iraq.

And I predict that when the US troops leave Iraq for good, the turkish ones will come back in the north.
 
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