Commemorating the Gulan Revolution in the Kurdistan Region

ARK News… The Kurdistan Region, Today, Thursday, May 25, 2023, commemorates the anniversary of the Gulan revolution, in the Gualala district, in the presence of leaders of the Kurdistan Democratic Party.

A popular celebration, including various activities, is scheduled to be held on the occasion of the 47th anniversary of the Gulan Revolution, in the presence of members of the Political Bureau of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, at 3:00 pm this afternoon in Gualala.

"Based on the recommendation of President Barzani, Gulan was chosen to commemorate the anniversary of the revolution because this region has been the center of the revolution for a long time," Kirmanj Izzat, an official of the Gulan branch of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, told Kurdistan 24.

And the Gulan Revolution erupted in extremely sensitive circumstances in the history of the Kurdish people, so not a few months passed after the setback that accompanied the ill-fated Algiers Agreement in 1975, which was aimed at exterminating the Kurdish people from the very core, until the Kurdistan Democratic Party, led by the spiritual father of the Kurdish people, Mustafa Barzani, decided to carry out planning And preparing for a new revolution that differs from its predecessors in terms of organizational aspects and military plans due to the objective conditions and the new reality that the Middle East region witnessed, so the Gulan revolution came to draw a new horizon for the Kurdish renaissance and to rekindle hope in the hearts of the people of Kurdistan.

And the Gulan revolution broke out on the twenty-sixth of May of the year 1976, so the declaration of the revolution was like the eruption of a volcano and an earthquake for the regimes of the Baath and the Shah together. Peshmerga.

The Gulan revolution extended for more than 15 years, as the Baath regime began to retreat in the face of the strikes of the Peshmerga forces, during which it committed the worst crimes against our people in Kurdistan, starting with murder and genocide, and passing through the use of internationally prohibited weapons, adopting a scorched earth policy by burning and demolishing all border villages and deporting their residents to The central, southern, and western provinces of Iraq, leading to the most horrific and heinous crimes represented by the notorious Anfal operations, followed by the use of internationally prohibited chemical and bacterial weapons against civilians.

Source: Kurdistan 24

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