Sheikh Ubeydullah River is the Widest Vein of the Kurdish Struggle

Hamit Geylani's book in your hand reveals the two centuries of the Kurds' search for freedom from the perspective of the 1880 Sheikh Ubeydullah River Movement, and draws attention to how empires maintained their dominance with the "divide and rule" method, and how the ancient indigenous peoples of the geography were pitted against each other instead of solidarity and liberation together.

The Sheikh Ubeydullah River Movement of 1880 has more advanced, more comprehensive and more national characteristics than other Kurdish rebellions and movements that continued until his time. By breaking the walls of localism and narrow understandings, it targeted the entire Kurdish geography and the broadest Kurdish unity together with other beliefs and affiliations existing here, and it was decisive in the development of the "democratic nation" concept, which is still discussed in Kurdish politics today.

Today, the shoulder-to-shoulder struggle of Kurds, Arabs, Turkmens, Nestorians, Assyrians and Armenians in Qamishli and Rojava, their unity in councils and the equal roles played by women in all areas of life give hope for a free future that includes all affiliations and beliefs. Here, Hamit Geylani takes the readers back to the years when this hope first blossomed in the search for freedom of the Kurds, whom official history tried to ignore the "democratic national" identity and squeeze it into the religious bracket.

(From the Promotional Bulletin)

Dough Type: 2nd Dough

Number of Pages: 304

Size: 13.5 x 21

First Print Year: 2019

Number of Printings: 1st Edition

Language Turkish