The seventy-sixth anniversary of the declaration of the Republic of Kurdistan

ARK News… On January 22, 1946, and 76 years ago, President Qazi Muhammad, the President of the Republic of Kurdistan (Mahabad), announced with the Minister of Defense of the Kurdish Republic, the immortal Mulla Mustafa Barzani the Republic of Kurdistan, in the “Çar Çira” Square in the city of Mahabad, the capital of the republic in Eastern Kurdistan (Kurdistan Rojhilat).

The republic is the first Kurdish republic that was declared in the history of the Kurds. But the republic lasted only eleven months, and ended with the execution of the President of the Republic, Qadi Muhammad, in “Çar Çira” Square in Eastern Kurdistan (Kurdistan Rohilat), by the Iranian government, on March 30, 1947.

According to historical sources: “This entity appeared as a result of the emerging Iranian crisis between the Soviet Union and the United States of America. Although Iran declared neutrality during World War II, the forces of the Soviet Union penetrated part of Iranian territory and Joseph Stalin's justification for this incursion was that Shah Iran Reza Pahlavi was sympathetic to Adolf Hitler and as a result of this incursion Reza Pahlavi fled into exile and his son Muhammad Reza Pahlavi was installed in his place, but the Soviet army continued the incursion and the Red Army was in control of northern Iran and Stalin aspired to indirectly expand the influence of the Soviet Union by establishing Loyal entities. "

The sources add, "The Kurds in Iran took advantage of this opportunity and Qadi Muhammad, together with Mustafa Barzani, declared the Republic of Kurdistan (Mahabad), on January 22, 1946, but the pressure exerted by the Shah on the United States, which in turn pressured the Soviet Union, was sufficient for the withdrawal of the Soviet forces from Iranian lands. The Iranian government toppled the Republic of Mahabad 11 months after its declaration, and Qadi Muhammad was executed on March 30, 1947, in a public square (Çar Çira) in the city of Mahabad, and Mustafa Barzani withdrew with his (Peshmerga) forces from Iranian Kurdistan to Iraqi Kurdistan, and thus the curtain was revealed about the first young Kurdish republic.

Every day of the year, on the twenty-second of January, the Kurds recall the great historical day that gave birth to a great republic, which the generations remember with pride respect in the hope of another republic in which the Kurds recover their full rights and dues to live within an independent Kurdistan that they have always struggled and struggled through Time passed in order to gain access and gain all their rights.

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