KURDS WITHOUT A COUNTRY THANKS TO POST WWI IMPERIALISM Muslim was - TopicsExpress



          

KURDS WITHOUT A COUNTRY THANKS TO POST WWI IMPERIALISM Muslim was born in the city of Kobani, or Ain al-Arab, in 1951. “Did you know that it is the Armenians who founded the city of Kobani?” he asked me. “Kobani is a German name (from the Koban railway company). This village was a train station built in 1912 by the Germans as part of the railway lines linking Berlin to Baghdad. In 1915, it turned into a village with the arrival of Armenian refugees fleeing the massacres. Kurds from neighboring villages subsequently started to flow into it. When I grew up, I remember that there were three Armenian churches in the village, but they moved to Armenia in the 1960s,” he added. Read more: al-monitor/pulse/politics/2013/10/syria-kurd-pyd-saleh-muslim-secession.html#ixzz2ieqbpC1y
Posted on: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 16:32:22 +0000

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