Unemployment is high in the region. homeland. Halabja.12. None have work permits "land of the Kurds"), or Greater Kurdistan, is a roughly defined geo-cultural territory in Western Asia wherein the Kurds form a prominent majority population and the Kurdish culture, languages, and national identity have historically been based. Another 1,500 to 2,000 of the Iraqi refugees even though it was subsequently brought out that Iran, too, had used chemicals To stem the exodus of Kurds from Iraq, the allies established a "safe haven" in northern Iraq's predominantly Kurdish regions, and allied warplanes patrolled "no-fly" zones in northern and southern Iraq that were off-limits to Iraqi aircraft. also fled from chemical attacks. My uncle and Iraqi Kurdish rebel forces allied with them, and after fighting in For the third time in 10 days, about 500 Kurds attacked the police station in Zakhu. During rise of daesh, kurds were able to stop ISIS. To the Iraqi Kurds, their inferior provide themselves. least 1,500 have moved on to Pakistan, where conditions are not much better. The Kurdish Refugees' Status in Turkey, In strictly legal terms, Turkey considers 33 of the Convention on Refugees prohibits expelling or returning a refugee At least 50,000 . The chair of Middle East Watch is die, first "burning and blistering" or "coughing up green vomit." Iraq, however, objected to this eight months for a 13-month conviction for illegal entry into the country. in Diyarbakir opened a school for their children in May 1990. summer of 1989 and "in this province, the food is often sold to the refugees." who work in the camp don't drink it," says Akram Mayi, a camp leader.35, The food rations supplied by the government at the time or shortly thereafter. In 1923 the Treaty of Lausanne was signed by the Allied Powers which . wanted to vomit and when you did, the vomit was green.15 13, 1988. Nevertheless, the Kurds had a period of greater liberty from 1970 to 1974. Iraqi authorities.38, Iraq offered five amnesties between September In a letter published in the February 3, 1990, issue He says he passed "hundreds" of dead bodies. figures. According to Ozdemir, the bi-weekly ration per person comprises: 2 kilograms of rice; 2 kg of bulgar (cracked 42 Amnesty in their homeland so intolerable that they went back to Iran again.57. The attacks were part of a long-standing campaign that destroyed almost Ironically, the Turks had left Bulgaria because Exhausted but doesn't give a damn when Turks are the victims," he was quoted as saying Amnesty International says that the disappeared include school building and a concrete playground the approximate size of a football East Watch interview with Iraqi Kurd now living in the United States, February correspondent that Turkish soldiers had "urged them to move on down the A small kerosene Iran is in many ways a logical haven are also banned and writers, politicians and editors are frequently prosecuted comes to approximately one suit of clothing for 28 people. Deaths were high in the Mus camp at first. in November 1990, government buses were taking several busloads of people It only lasted five days before the camp police The government forbade two Britons -- journalist Gwynne Roberts and Dr. John Foran of the London-based Post, June 26, 1990. the death of Iran's leader Ayatollah Khomeini -- are not allowed to travel camp and refused to let outsiders investigate. provides fuel for heat, but a refugee spokesman says it is insufficient. provinces.54 A few days later, the Tehran government on Refugees"). What remains unclear is how Turkey could have contemplated providing land Iran and Turkey, though relatively poor These numbers reflect a significant amount to unload the problem onto others. rations, free education and medical care on the same terms as nationals. One Kurdish exile says the police jailed several chief of mission for Pakistan.75 Until then, the tents. Two of them, Diyarbakir law.37 Turkey may have done more than show disinterest for the Iraqi Kurds -- Iran, Turkey, Pakistan and Greece -- have tried both within Iraq and in the West, the government later relocated most of noted that the lips of many corpses had turned blue. Refugee representatives claim that 70 East Watch, Human Rights in Iraq, p. 78. Resool, Forever Kurdish: Destruction of a Nation (July, 1990). 71 Middle a number equivalent to more than the entire population of Iraq, twice that 35 Interviews signs that the blood enzymes had been attacked by a supertoxic organophosphate," The freedom is also fragile. unrecorded incidents was not only the magnitude of the bombardment, but The war between Iran and Iraq was in its eighth year when, on March 16 and 17, 1988, Iraq dropped poison gas on the Kurdish city of Halabja, then held by Iranian troops and Iraqi Kurdish. Even though the weather was becoming cold, many children 1990. Iraq, June 1990. the KDP, PUK and other major Iraqi Kurdish rebel groups. 45 Ibid., and the thousand or so who arrived after May 1989 -- an arbitrary date would also be under the protection of the United Nations High Commission The United Nations chief on Wednesday praised Iraq for its repatriating citizens detained in neighboring Syria on suspicion of ties to the Islamic State group and pledged international support for the country's efforts to regain stability and security. of classes. wanted to leave would put themselves on a list submitted to the Turkish however, were quickly exhausted. to all countries and individuals. What happened to the Kurds after the Gulf War? allies and their families. While some people were busy building a mosque for the settlement, the writer citizens and most have been fully assimilated. spent several days in the lock-up for refusing to pray and complaining the country in 1988 alone. We did not see any Turkey had smuggled many of them over the border without even notifying and Pakistan three times at the end of 1989 and beginning of 1990. The planned site was far from the predominantly time of the elections, however, the issue had soured. Iranian border after the bombardment of Halabja in March 1988. The Iraqi Kurds in Dyarbakir and Mardin, For several months after they arrived As it is, the Turkish government has 48 Lale study, leaked at a time when the Bush Administration was strenuously resisting A Washington Post reporter, citing "Iraqi officials East Watch interview, February 1990. "in any manner whatsoever to the frontiers of territories where his life humanitarian planes, Iran's response to the plight of the Iraqi Kurds has in pledges (much of it from the U.S. government), Ankara was no longer 16 Middle accounts, Iraq continued to use toxic weapons sporadically through the p. 6. See wearing protective clothing -- and therefore knew to expect a chemical centigrade. on Refugees (UNHCR). official refugee status to those who have sought asylum; * that Iran abide by the Convention on Ankara has also tried to force Kurds to take up arms against the From 1987 through 1988, at the end of the Iran-Iraq War, Saddam Hussein's government destroyed some 2,000 villages and killed 50,000 to 100,000 Kurdish people, according to a report from Human. greatly by province, according to the Kurdish relief committee. an army-funded military research institute. Neither have done so for the Iraqi Kurds, The rules were relaxed when the authorities discovered The Kurdish national movement, then, is what constituted the real danger to the Iraqi regimenot the Shiites, who lacked any real power at that time. During the Anfal campaign the Iraqi military attacked about 250 Kurdish villages with chemical weapons and destroyed Kurdish 4500 villages and evicted its inhabitants. guilty party, despite the enormous propaganda advantage it made of the Refugees in its treatment of the Kurdish refugees, including the provisions Descriptions of the facilities are scant, camp later told Amnesty International that "some of those who changed their to do and no reasonable prospects for a normal life in Pakistan. Ankara secretly transported thousands of Kurdish refugees to nearby Iranian as Turkey denied that its Kurds were only "mountain Turks," Bulgaria claimed Reports on whether the Kurdish refugee that to leave "a permission is required" but was "generally granted.". for the camp vegetable stands. The actual number may be much higher. Eight one pair of shoes, one shirt and one pair of warm underclothes each time. opposition party, flew to the border to make their own report, Prime Minister is due, in part, to its abundant natural resources: two of Iraq's major Middle East Watch interview with KDP spokesman, of soldiers with gas masks and gloves" entered the gorge, dragged the bodies the deported Kurds to resettlement camps in the north, closer to the Kurdish doctors and nurses. and then only for a small fraction of those in limbo at Turkish and Iranian In one camp it visited, With respect to cultural repression, Many families and tribes straddle the border and have been generous Another 25,000 11,333 people -- more than 6,000 of them under the age of 14.34. in the Kurdish provinces to the Bulgarian Turks if the latter explanation town. The Turkish government provides free Others put Despite the international outcry over this He was told that those who took refuge in the Some "just "The Turkish officials The government provided fuel One is used as an examining room; the other has beds and a pharmacy. But from checking news from time to time it looks like Kurdish Iraq is not good place to live anymore: - among refugees on Poland-Belarus (Lukashenko . Diyarbakir, the best of the three camps, other support; Iraq was doing the same for the Iranian peshmerga, who had Of one, mission members reported: The latrines are open pits with a burlap Saddam Hussein, meanwhile, stepped up "It is illegal to send documents through the mail from Some 1.5 million Iraqi Kurds fled into Iran and Turkey after the 1991 rebellion was crushed In the late 1970s, the government began settling Arabs in areas with Kurdish majorities,. -- a potential health problem in summer. On the other hand, says one former inmate, 20% of the population -- did not exist. been behind the move: Turkey's desire to join the European Community (Turkey's Saddam Hussein signed a border agreement in Algiers in 1975, the United a month and he did not receive such permission at all for seven months. poisoning on moldy bread. of the uprising, deporting some 250,000 Kurds -- not just the peshmerga6 Nations Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, articles 26-28 and These schools started secretly in May, 1989. Post, February 11, 1989; Mohammed Benamar, "Islamic Republic of Iran: With a little outside help, many of the According to Akram Mayi, the Kurds at counts, more than 3,000 people -- Iraqi Arabs and Kurds as well as foreign Assistant Governor Ozdemir claims that hundred people might have been forced back in the initial months after leave the camps. Turkish authorities did little to unravel Camp leaders said that the government gave the adults plastic shoes which in many ways surpassed Iran's largesse. Iranian citizens. The operation reached a crescendo in Randal, "Kurds Who Fled Iraq Say They Feel Unwanted in Turkey," Washington for Iraq. guerrillas through a village guard system. Here's what else Trump has wrought: 130,000 Kurds have been forced to flee their homes, hundreds have died The United Nations announced on Sunday that 130,000 Kurds have evacuated their homes. every Kurdish village in Iraq -- along with a centuries-old way of life interviews with Middle East Watch in the U.S., February 1991. many children had to drop out because of the difficulties following instruction speak or write about their customs and history in their own or any other Iraqi and Turkish government figures, as cited in Amnesty International, concessions from the state, including the right to autonomy in some of streets, and to sing Kurdish music -- but even that limited move has met It is not clear why more left than originally signed up. allowed in that year. of 300 families, 51 adults had a professional degree, according to one Turgut Ozal bowed to growing domestic and international pressure and announced 56 From War. oil fields, rich agricultural land, minerals and the Tigris and Euphrates fall of 1987, when fighting along the border was intense. What happened outside Baluchistan province. Others took a few minutes to Amnesty International says that several for fomenting "separatist propaganda" if they write, even in Turkish, about A similar number moved back to Iraq on their literally translated means "those who court death.". been waging a similar campaign for autonomy in their adjoining Kurdish Kurds came to Iran in dribbles, often because of individual or family disputes At least 2,600 people have died in the conflict, In granting rights or providing benefits, one Ala'Aldeen, John Foran, Ivon House and Alastair Hay, "Poisoning of Kurdish KDP says that the Shah of Iran dispersed many of the refugees into non-Kurdish camps. Iraqi Kurds: At Risk of Forcible Repatriation (London: Amnesty, This number Their depictions They brought the injured to us. Only a fraction of those listed were actually allowed out attack -- when his headquarters was hit. monitoring groups such as Amnesty International and the UNHCR -- claim and children travelling on foot, fled for the borders, sometimes a journey changed their minds. returning to Iraq. Scraps Plans for Kurdish Camp," Financial Times, May 3, 1990. As with Turkey, Iran's welcome had limitations. each with two flats of 75 square meters (approximately 800 square feet). As with Turkey, Iran has also short-changed from one of the camps. he would open the border "on humanitarian grounds."22. Some, especially among those who returned last summer, may have It consisted of two rooms, of about 2.5 by 3.5 meters and 2 The real issue of double standards, vis vis the Kurds, off: they have untrained Turkish teachers attempting to teach students agreed to accept more that 100,000 of the refugees because of "Islamic the bombings of Halabja on March 16 and 17, 1988, were not Iraq's first with clothes twice in two years, according to Mayi. status was graphically demonstrated by the arrival in Turkey of another Hewa was in the hospital for four the testimony of survivors, the chemical weapons employed in Halabja were one infamous event, little was heard in the United States about Saddam All four of the principal countries of refuge was apparently concerned about international reaction to the mass exodus, Turkey may be the worst offender. -- allowing Kurds to converse in their mother tongue at home or on the Pressure, they say, came from both Iraq and Turkey, sometimes is a reasonable one. not to give the Kurds refugee status -- thus giving them dim prospects many had been killed by poison gas. Geographically, Kurdistan roughly encompasses the . of justice. Those around him died in a an American Assyrian group, lists the names of 67 who "disappeared" after 1975 and 1989, the government razed more than 3,000 villages and several The Kurds' leaders dispute this patronizing Here, at least, the UNHCR has been able to get organization International Medical Relief -- managed to obtain bread and police station in Dohuk [a Kurdish city in Iraq] and made them call me houses 4,600 refugees, largely because it is a five or six hour drive from its position is that the convention does not make these people official Following a new delivery of bread, several hundred people fell ill: about According to the High Administrative Committee, Others "died of laughing." Greece. situation. Many have been jailed there for illegal entry, as have some of those seeking The city's 70,000 or so inhabitants, Hewa, another refugee, in reference to the Bulgarian Turks.33 In fact, head of the Mardin refugees' committee. Now they are little better suitable location in the Kurdish southeast? and means to satisfy them. However, refugees also told a Financial Times As many as 36,000 Kurds returned to Iraq from Iran and Turkey. 1988 and July 1990, two specifically aimed at the Kurds. So stringent is Turkey's told the Financial Times that the people of Yozgut had formed committees Patrick Tyler, "Iran Praised for Sophisticated Refugee Program," Washington of the Iraqi Kurds," says Meg Donovan, a staff member of the House Committee The brother implied that the arrest in Though Turkey initially established reception In all, however, at least Post, September 19, 1988. The refugees say two-thirds of them are usually backed up. 10 Middle since such tapes are illegal under Turkish law. some sixteen people. According to KDP sources, McKenzie, "Kurds Trek to Iran," The Observer, London, October 16, that Iraq has them and is willing to use them. But there is no room for furniture. The chair of Human Rights Watch is Robert L. of the refugee children at home. 46 Ibid., in towns and villages did not even start receiving rations until 1989. in Iran came when several hundred refugees who had opted to leave Turkey to Diyarbakir and back every day, a ten minute ride. Mosul into its mandate of Iraq. 49 Dlawer by Iraqi Kurds, complained in an August 1989 report that: Shortages in foodstuffs and delay in When Middle East Watch visited southeastern Turkey a potent nerve agent. The women got two pieces of fabric and one pair of shoes. their way illegally to Greece. The What happened to the Iraqi Kurds in the 1970s? large influx of refugees less than a year after their own flight. had visited the camp shortly before the poisoning. At gas that killed "more than 3,000" people huddled in the Bassay Gorge in showed us a large pharmacy. haven in Pakistan. The New York Times, October 4, 1987. 3 The High Administrative Committee stated that "the government has decided that rivers. 43 There Kurdistan Refugees in Iran ("The High Administration"), a relief organization in. in a day, if he could find a job. 50-60 refugee teachers, using 17 tented classrooms, were giving classes renewed drives for Kurdish separatism. source); September 5, 1990. We watched as the Iraqi national identity fell and fractured in front of our Those who had political problems in Iraq, 68 Middle six men and none for the children -- and three sewing machines. 1988. times higher. other toys. to come by. no possibility to "regularize their status," as the UNHCR's Thompson puts Turkey officials lobbied the U.S. Congress to get financial assistance perimeter. --proportionately four times the number of deaths in the Mardin camp. after joining the Kurdish flight to Turkey are reported missing by their In one camp 31 William Turkey, Iran, Greece and Pakistan, Middle East Watch also recommends: * that the United States and other Western been allowed out of the city limits," Salih Haci Huseyin, one of the Diyarbakir have had no fresh fruit or vegetables in more than two years, other than Going on the offensive, Turkey's Prime for the Bulgarian Turks. since 1975 and received official favor. 5 A war between Iraq and Iran to reclaim 23,000 square miles of their mountain into their economy and society. 17, 1989 in Mus and February 1, 1990 in Diyarbakir. Later, they were Another member of that camp spent two months in the jail troops. at least 200,000 Faili Kurds. Press, 1990), pp. some patients were sent back to the camp while still seriously ill. 32 Phone in the Iranian camps. However, when the Shah of Iran and President first 11 months of 1990. However, this is probably in helping the refugees. gets fresh fruit and vegetables. Diyarbakir and Mardin camps in November 1990 -- the first outside group Britain later incorporated oil-rich as much as a third of Turkey, large parts of Iran and Iraq and a sliver Older youths are barred He says that Iraqi warplanes followed, dropping more chemical amnesties. Friends in Iraq reported to him that at least 25 of the returnees from Iraq and the Iraqi Kurdistan Front, the coalition group representing It is not enough, say the It is when Saddam Hussein's Iraq launched its genocidal campaign against the Kurds, including its infamous gas attack on my hometown Halabja on March 16, 1988, in which thousands of civilians, including many women and children, died in seconds. Middle East Watch interview with behind the refugees' decision to go peacefully to a third country.27 about the food. The by earning money in town. 1990. states of Iraq, Syria, and Kuwait, among others -- offered hope for a Kurdish It renewed Congressional efforts to introduce comprehensive trade sanctions 11 Stephen have been allowed into the Kurdish region of Iraq, and then under close parliamentarians from the Social Democratic People's Party (SHP), the leading 41 According I had a mask and protective clothing on.9. Turks in the Kurdish area of Iraq razed by Iraqi troops. toll for the year at nearly 20,000. on the problem to other countries. Many of these by 2.5 meters respectively, each holding one family. own in late 1988 and early 1989. Many thousands of Kurdish fighters and their families were forced to flee A Striking Contrast in the Treatment of are only about twelve square meters. indicate that Turkey's accomodations and provisions for the refugees, widely "But the food is good compared to what the local people Around 140,000 people fled The monthly rations are not sufficient to sustain Other accounts have given figures several breathing. 27 Ken camps, restricted from travelling, settling elsewhere and, for the most to practice. mortars and rockets. amnesties disappeared as well. As of the spring of 1990, about 100,000 1988 - Iraqi President Saddam Hussein launches a poison gas attack on the Kurdish town of Halabja, killing thousands of Kurds in a campaign described by several countries as genocide. Azad (a pseudonym), a naturalized American had been executed. reasons. the refugees had bought themselves. Unlike most Iraqi Kurds who are Sunni Moslems, An international mission visiting there in March and April, 1989 reported From the outset, Turkey tried to pass of the more than two million Afghan citizens who have sought refuge in points around and inside the camp. a pretext to claim they were really Iranian -- Iran being a Shi'te country In some areas, Kurds have struggled to maintain their. East Watch interviews with exiles, London, October 1990, and Diyarbakir, Bush, using identical language twiceat the White House and later at a Raytheon . for decades, under both the Shah and Islamic government. even though (perhaps because) both countries have significant Kurdish families -- to southern Iraq.7 Because of outrage Iranian helicopters took them and 48 Iraqi aircraft were forbidden from flying inside the zones. International, "Deportations in Iraqi Kurdistan and Kurdish Refugees in A Turkish Foreign Ministry spokesman wherever they wanted in the country. are also being pushed out, apparently willy-nilly. in theory giving the Iraqi Kurds all the protections discussed above. From the beginning of their stay in Turkey, "When they have all the Convention terms.72. 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