The second anniversary of the departure of the President of the Red Republic of Kurdistan

ARK News... Monday, April 19, 2021, coincided with the second annual departure of Wakil Mustafayef, President of the Red Kurdistan Republic.

Kurdistan lost two years ago, on Friday 19/4/2019, one of the symbols of the Kurds in the Karabakh region, after his bitter struggle for the Kurdish region, and his refuge in Italy after the collapse of his republic, and his move three years before his death to Brussels, and after a bitter struggle with cancer, Wakil Mustafayef's, president of the Red Kurdistan Republic, departed in the Belgian capital, Brussels, at the age of 85.

About the Red Republic of Kurdistan - in Kurdish “Kurdistana Sor”:

It was an autonomous republic under the government of Azerbaijan established at the beginning of Lenin's era on July 7, 1923, and ended tragically on April 8, 1929. Its capital was Latchin, and it included the cities of Gulbajar and Qubadli, which are today located within the Nagorno Karabakh region, which it controls by the Armenians since 1992.

The Kurds constituted 72% of its population or 37,120 people, but Stalin's intervention and the continuing Soviet repression against minorities in the Caucasus led to the decline of the Kurdish presence, through the policies of Azeri Turkification and Soviet displacement, which Stalin followed (Stalin was originally from Georgia). Thousands of Kurds from Azerbaijan, Armenia, and Georgia migrated to the wasteland of Kazakhstan and Siberia, to meet their inevitable death under the pretext of supporting the Nazi attack, this displacement included the majority of minorities and small nationalities in the Caucasus, from Chechnya, Abkhaz, Kurds, and Daghestani, between 1935-1944. Few are the Kurds who have returned to their homes.

The Kurdish situation continued to wane with the expansion of the politics of marginalization and Turkification of the Azeris, and after the fall of the Soviet Union and the disintegration of its republics, the Armenians took control of the Nagorno Karabakh region and the Kurdish regions in it, and the Armenians tried to win over the Kurds.

The Kurdish Republic of Latchin was established in 1992 under the leadership of Deputy Mustafayef, but it did not last long due to the lack of Kurdish public support, as it was the product of an Armenian policy hostile to Azerbaijan, rejected by the Kurds who share religion, culture and land with the Azeris, and its president (Mustafa) resorted to Italy as a political refugee of the same year.

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