Blood on the Walls of History: The Kurdish Narrative Between Massacres and Uprisings

If someone tells you, “We have no problems with the Kurds,” know that behind this simple sentence lie lines of blood and fire, pages unforgettable in pain and displacement. These are not mere fleeting historical events-;- they are deep wounds in the Kurdish body, wounds that widen every time they attempt to rise and intensify every time they try to cling to their land, culture, and identity.

The bloody scene began in 1920, when the first uprisings against the Turkish occupation erupted. These revolts were nothing but a cry for existence, but the response came with brutal bloodshed, where thousands fell as martyrs, entire cities were displaced, and that was only the beginning of a long series of tragedies. The situation did not stop at mere weaponry but transformed into a systematic policy of annihilating hope itself, aborting any attempt to hold on to land´-or-identity.

In 1922, the Môtki massacre occurred, in which more than a thousand Kurds were killed, followed in 1930 by the Zilan Valley massacre, where they were wiped out mercilessly, from children to the elderly, with around forty thousand Kurds killed in a single massacre, where death wore a human face, a face stained with blood and racism. In the same year, another massacre took place in Ağ-;-rı-;-, where thousands of Jalalian tribesmen were martyred, and the Soviet Red Army participated in this act, which has yet to be properly condemned.

Between 1923 and 1925, the Sheikh Said Rebellion led to the death of between thirty and forty thousand martyrs, with British aviation -dir-ectly involved in the killings through air raids on Kurdish cities. In 1933, the Ş-;-emdinli massacre took place, where three thousand Kurds were killed, making it one of the most heinous pages of the 20th century.

But Turkish policy didn’t stop at massacres-;- it transitioned into a policy of organized ethnic cleansing. From 1920 to 1940, over five million Kurds were deported to central Anatolia, as if the land itself needed to be cleansed of its true owners. These campaigns continued until the end of the 20th century, with over five thousand Kurdish villages destroyed between 1984 and 2000, and their residents displaced far from their roots and history.

Amid the dark fog, secret organizations emerged, committing killings under the cloak of mystery, such as the "Gray Wolves," the "Turkish Revenge Brigade," "JITAM," and "The Anti-Guerilla Warfare Committee of NATO, known as Gladio," where more than twenty thousand Kurdish civilians, most of them educated and activist, were killed between 1988 and 2000, their murders recorded under the category of "unknown."

Over time, the war did not stop. Since May 1983, over thirty military campaigns have been launched against Southern Kurdistan, hundreds of villages have been bombed, thousands displaced, cities turned to rubble, and people became refugees. The Sasson Massacre was one of these tragedies, where thousands were killed, dozens of villages destroyed, and the survivors were displaced to central Anatolia. In 1930, the village of Kerkuk witnessed the annihilation of 33 villages in the Zagros Mountains, a memory immortalized in a song by artist Ciwan Hajo, which captured the tragedy in a voice full of sorrow and resilience.

These events are just a glimpse of a long sea of suffering, the countless violations committed by Turkish nationalism. The story would be even longer if we include the crimes of the Arabs and Persians in their ethnic cleansing and genocide of the Kurds. It is an ongoing cycle of endless tragedy, where Kurdish blood is spilled without mercy, and the land is drowned in it until the last drop. After all this, is it believable to say that they have no conflict with the Kurds? History does not forget, blood speaks, and the truth will not remain buried forever.

These painful pages of history should not only be written in books-;- they must be spoken aloud, sung in songs, painted in pictures, and told in tales, so that future generations know that freedom is not given, but taken from between the fangs and claws, and that the truth does not die, despite the long night.

After all these crimes they have committed, is there still anyone who believes in their false promises?

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