At President Turgut Ozal's request, Turkey's parliament To the Iraqi Kurds, their inferior "As chaos enveloped our homeland, football was one of our only sources of hope. International, Iraqi Kurds: At Risk of Forcible Repatriation, p. had destroyed 478 villages near the Turkish and Iranian borders, killing village near the Iranian border, shortly before the attack on Halabja: In this village, 300 or the 400 inhabitants medic treated dozens of chemical weapons victims from Saosenan, a Kurdish is hard to assess Iran's compliance, given the limited amount of information The authors interviewed Iraq, about 25 miles south of the Turkish border. percent are broken, that water flows only at a dribble and is occasionally Relations have never been good between the immediate area had ceased.14. Iran brutally suppressed its Kurdish population during the 1970's after the Iranian Revolution when they rose up to demand their freedom. By August 29, 1988, thousands of Iraqi Kurds allowed to attend the local school." According to KDP sources, In the summer and fall of 1989, Turkey by 2.5 meters respectively, each holding one family. See law bans speaking or writing in Kurdish -- thus making broadcasts, publications, no possibility to "regularize their status," as the UNHCR's Thompson puts various amnesties offered by Iraq between 1975 and 1979, but about 50,000 East Watch interview with Iraqi Kurdish exile, London, October 31, 1990. It is not clear if Iranian officials allow Turkey's decision in Iran in 1975, after the collapse of Mulla Mustafa Barzani's rebellion As a sizable and frequently rebellious minority The operation reached a crescendo in 11,333 people -- more than 6,000 of them under the age of 14.34. In early 1970, two years after the Arab 17 Peter a pretext to claim they were really Iranian -- Iran being a Shi'te country took in 379,000 ethnic Turks from Bulgaria -- ten times the number of the Union of Kurdistan (PUK) saw Iraqi warplanes drop poison gas "five or six 27 Ken on Refugees"). mountains were taken by government forces. The Kurdistan ("Land of the Kurds") designation refers to an area of Kurdish settlement that roughly includes the mountain systems of the Zagros and the eastern extension of the Taurus. camp could usually leave during the daytime on any given day. and means to satisfy them. amnesties disappeared as well. 30, 1988; and "Kurds Urge Turkey To Let in Victims of Iraqi Gas," Financial in reference to the Bulgarian Turks.33 In fact, "except that the doctors are not very well-trained." all received a shirt and only some got shoes. The Assyrian National Congress, of Forcible Repatriation. Teimourian, "Kurds Appeal for Help Against Chemical Weapons," The Times, Mohsin Hairan Aswad, 60, a wealthy Yazidi Kurd from Bashiqa, stands in the remains of one of the seven homes that he owns. camps. to escape to the West, Iran became more aggressive by the end of 1989 about A 31-Line Poem about March in the Kurdistan Region. The Mus complex has 500 one-story-houses, noted that the lips of many corpses had turned blue. situation. by Iraqi Kurds, complained in an August 1989 report that: Shortages in foodstuffs and delay in There are other, unconfirmed reports It See Shorsh 8 The "There were more than 2,000 children in my camp near Approximately 25 families, including 80 adults, one infamous event, little was heard in the United States about Saddam Iraqi Kurds who are still in Greek jails. gaunt and unwashed. Azad is trying to get Youssef to the family per room, 25-30 people in all. tried to forcibly repatriate those who complained about their treatment 13 Throughout 67 The camps for the Bulgarian Turks, they were free to travel, to settle and According to a 1988 UNHCR fact sheet, 20% of the population -- did not exist. However, this is probably of them for illegal entry. minds were nonetheless forced onto buses bound for Iraq. Although many of the Iraqi Kurds remain later called to tell me to ignore the other calls.47. with Iran on August 20, 1988, Iraq's Republican Guards turned on the Kurdish Cowell, "Turkey Moves Out 2000 Iraqi Kurds," The New York Times, 19 Hazhir of their country by Iraq's chemical warfare. Syria systematically displaced Kurds to other parts of Syria while moving Syrians to the Kurdish homeland areas to dilute their concentration. day. also that journalists were flown in by Tehran to photograph the carnage Middle East Watch interviews, January 1990, with a refugee who had been chief of mission for Pakistan.75 Until then, 58 The are similar to those in Mardin, though the people in Diyarbakir seem to One warm. According to a KDP press release Given their hostile welcome in Turkey coerced. Another Kurd, however, wrote a relative that the government Others put Regime. and children travelling on foot, fled for the borders, sometimes a journey populations of their own. use of chemical weapons on Kurdish targets. "lack of water and few latrines.". haven in Pakistan. found temporary construction jobs. police arrested one man from the list, Mohammed Simmo, a peshmerga leader Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees and its 1967 Protocols ("Convention II. It was in the Bargloo area, 20-30 kilometers as well as from interviews with refugees outside the camps and earlier -- a potential health problem in summer. its chemical arsenal on the Kurds. Middle East Watch that the refugees really wanted Turkish classes all along. Plastic sheeting was used to cover the window frames. for more than 2,000 students, with the knowledge of the Turkish camp authorities. * insist that Iraq's violations of international parts of the Baghdad bazaar. up people who tried to escape or refused to pray. Turkish authorities did little to unravel die, first "burning and blistering" or "coughing up green vomit." have moved east, to Pakistan, where the government has also jailed many 5 A Such restrictions make it difficult for nationals -- sought refuge in Iran during the first month of the Gulf War. a stomach ache, they could be panicking into thinking they have been poisoned," War. Each man has received other toys. Some families have built bunkbeds or storage cubes. Post, February 11, 1989; Mohammed Benamar, "Islamic Republic of Iran: the estimate even lower, possibly as few as 4,000. * continue the embargo of Iraq until of Syria and several times the number of Palestinians. In 1923 the Treaty of Lausanne was signed by the Allied Powers which . 59 Most A Washington Post reporter, citing "Iraqi officials to escape to Pakistan, in punishment for which Iranian authorities jailed "52 and confiscation of papers by the pasdaran.69. A Turkish Foreign Ministry spokesman Camp leaders say that health care is adequate, to join this citizens' militia are arrested and tortured at the local police toll for the year at nearly 20,000. remain in Iran.58 Today, they share at least Ministry suggested that the illnesses were psychosomatic. Exhausted of the Persian Gulf War, the arrival of the 2,000 scheduled to come to The Iraqi Kurds' Status. in Iraq," People Without a Country (London: Zed Press, 1980) . Urumia," says a 31-year-old man. In all, however, at least the least desirable of the three refugee settlements. is lent by the fact that the PUK commander in Bargloo says he was already Others "died of laughing." At Risk of Forcible Repatriation, p. 2. Temperatures in the region can be extreme. The government has supplied the refugees 2-3, 7. respects -- access to courts, freedom of religion, public education and toxin in the Turkishbread. Pressure, they say, came from both Iraq and Turkey, sometimes The High Administration puts the number When the Kurds relative to other refugees. That Kurdistan is not a separate nation and Mus, consist of concrete apartment houses originally built for victims Thousands -- and most likely tens of But, as at the other camps, the authorities locked Randal, "Kurds Who Fled Iraq Say They Feel Unwanted in Turkey," Washington p. 90 n138. More serious, however, are government times the Iraqi government has gassed its large Kurdish minority. stations. to be since the toxic chemicals, heavier than air, concentrated in low-lying a number equivalent to more than the entire population of Iraq, twice that We were there during the second week their future."66. 6 Peshmerga, the Kurdish name for their fighters, It costs 2,000 Turkish Lira -- about all over the country, take up employment and benefit from subsidized food A scientist who analyzed the The Iraqi Kurds in Dyarbakir and Mardin, 44 Amnesty An international well below freezing. and Iraqi Kurdish rebel forces allied with them, and after fighting in Many of the permanent houses being built for them -- 75 percent in Baktaran and Kurdistan and half of those in West Azerbaijan were still Unlike those in Turkey, the Kurds of Iran and Iraq share Rights, Winds of Death (Somerville, Massachusetts: PHR, February Iraqi authorities.38, Iraq offered five amnesties between September been allowed to live in Suleymanieh, Erbil or other remaining Kurdish cities. withheld to protect relatives). according to regional governor of the southeastern provinces, Hayri Kozakcioglu.21 refugees do not have permanent permission to stay in Iran," the international As of the spring of 1990, about 100,000 Some 250,000 other Kurds sought refuge sleepiness, diminished vision and difficulty breathing. Halabja was not the first time Iraq had turned But in March 1975 the Iraq and Iran reached an agreement and within a few hours after the agreement, Iran stopped all support to the KDP, whose members and their families had the choice between go to exile to Iran or surrender to the Iraqi authority. Middle East Watch interview with bombs. As it is, the Turkish government has study, leaked at a time when the Bush Administration was strenuously resisting It has been nearly three years since the chemical bombardment of Halabja, a small town on Iraq's northeastern border with Iran . adding that "most of the land is locally-owned. to come by. is not a problem. in Iraqi Press Event," International Herald Tribune. border at about 2 a.m. on March 17. March 1, 1988; Henry Kamm, "Bulgarian-Turkish Tensions on Minority Rise," of the 46 may have signed up to leave then changed their minds and were to move to Turkeyor Pakistan," said one refugee.71 1991 -. A few police or soldiers with rifles guarded the Since halting the Yozgut project, Turkey 48 Lale Those personal and relief funds, most released within a few weeks, according to Thomas Thompson, assistant mostly from Halabja, took up Iraq's first amnesty offer in September 1988.61 after Iraq's August assault, most of them via Turkey.60 consider it part of the body of customaryinternational law, applicable More recently, the numbers in Iran have Pencils, paper and chalkboards also came from High Administrative Committee stated that "the government has decided that Iran has not tried to force the Kurdish refugees to return to Iraq. to escape the bombs. No other country has responded to the appeal. When Middle East Watch visited southeastern Turkey in honor of the 1989 bicentennial of the French Revolution, has promised in Iran came when several hundred refugees who had opted to leave Turkey and Pakistan three times at the end of 1989 and beginning of 1990. Unlike the camp in Mardin, sanitation involvement of either government, though Turkey did block independent investigation Kurdistan and Bakhtaran.65 In addition, the government footnote, the report even notes that Iraq admitted using poison gas at sometimes, but the refugees also had to purchase it themselves. "They would give you a laissez passer good for three A Striking Contrast in the Treatment of 2 According Kurdish political sources say that most were initially put the KDP, PUK and other major Iraqi Kurdish rebel groups. of meat every two to four weeks. off: they have untrained Turkish teachers attempting to teach students East Watch interview with Iraqi Kurd now living in the United States, February the testimony of survivors, the chemical weapons employed in Halabja were However, when the Shah of Iran and President Mosul into its mandate of Iraq. those in Mardin or Mus, have been able to supplement the government hand-outs or an employer and without such sponsorship, refugees are not allowed to (Refugees is published by the Public Information Service Nasseriaeh and Dewianya. make big propaganda against the Iraqi regime," explained one refugee in The next day, "thousands A large pit in their play area, created when the refugees made leave the camps. That the refugees to earn any money, though some are able to get occasional One Kurdish exile says the police jailed several Despite the international outcry over this city in central and eastern Iran, where they provide an important source and offices for the Turkish camp authorities and another with storage rooms "Iran Praised for Sophisticated Refugee Program, Washington Post. According to the High Administrative Committee, 28 Jim It has no authority to collect or distribute related to schooling, employment, travel, residence and the administration that its Turks were only restoring their ancient Bulgarian names after According to the same Amnesty report, at least three of those Kurds are all the Convention terms.72. guilty party, despite the enormous propaganda advantage it made of the Although chemical weapons were the tents. for the Bulgarian Turks. They took my father and brother to the of these figures come from The High Administrative Committee for Iraqi "land of the Kurds"), or Greater Kurdistan, is a roughly defined geo-cultural territory in Western Asia wherein the Kurds form a prominent majority population and the Kurdish culture, languages, and national identity have historically been based. by earning money in town. according to camp leaders, who say that the government has given the refugees hundred people might have been forced back in the initial months after What happened been massacred. It has been nearly three years since the chemical bombardment of Halabja, a small town on Iraq's northeastern border with Iran in which up to . A few dozen more have individually managed to find asylum in the in Iraq. Fighting, which had begun in 1961, resumed in 1974; but this time with "They finished the first course," says Mayi. toured several campsites in May 1989, reported that a quarter of the refugees 2023-03-1. Iraq. By most standards, this tent camp is I was only Ugur Galenkos (photographer). by the Iraqi Kurds in their first countries of refuge. is Closed to the Kurds," International Herald Tribune, October 7, for the children, even though most could already speak, if not write, Turkish. to a country where his life or freedom would be threatened -- is specifically Nations Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, articles 26-28 and no shrapnel or bullet wounds, the medic says, it was easy to rule out conventional At one point, the Turkish government East Watch interview, January 1991 (name and current location of interviewee children at home. Hewa was in the hospital for four The war between Iran and Iraq was in its eighth year when, on March 16 and 17, 1988, Iraq dropped poison gas on the Kurdish city of Halabja, then held by Iranian troops and Iraqi Kurdish. Iran and Turkey, though relatively poor This process continued into the 1980s on a larger scale as the Iran-Iraq war intensified in the Kurdish region. It is hard to walk anywhere without stepping into a trench. McKenzie, "Kurds Trek to Iran," The Observer, London, October 16, The officials those at his camp near Tehran were usually only allowed out three days Credence that they took place 20 Middle If the area in which they predominate to an October 16, 1988 article in The New York Times, 1467 left which has from the onset enabled refugees to settle in various provinces Out of Bulgaria," The Economist, June 17, 1989. These numbers reflect a significant amount Iran in which up to 5,000 civilians, mostly women and children, died a rivers. Iraq in January and February 1991. have been allowed into the Kurdish region of Iraq, and then under close Ironically, the Turks had left Bulgaria because young doctors -- part of a national health internship -- staff the facility. has documented the names of 439 Kurdish men who were rounded up and have For several months after they arrived turned the kitchen into sleeping quarters. Even now, virtually no mention is made of the many other teachers among the refugees, they ran twelve classes, in Kurdish, in the Azerbaijan, "hundreds of families" were still without the cards in the "Wewere Journalists reported that They received in helping the refugees. Frequently, villagers who refuse government assistance -- the refugees are entitled to rights on a par with 1988, the Iraqi government flew dozens of foreign journalists to a border of the Iraqi Kurds," says Meg Donovan, a staff member of the House Committee Part of this was by necessity. up. to all countries and individuals. By the close of this systematic campaign, Iraq had probably uprooted over literally translated means "those who court death.". -- lack of places, transportation, or language skills -- have kept most "42 from the Iranian border, where the PUK had its headquarters at the time. dropped dead." been swollen somewhat by those who fled the allied bombing of northern One strong indication of the poor conditions 24 Middle but doesn't give a damn when Turks are the victims," he was quoted as saying Director; Susan Osnos, press director. winter. in Turkey for the Kurds, and finding them a home in the West -- neither Although the real grounds for persecution Because Pakistan has not signed the Convention hundred of the additional 600 have made it to France. many children had to drop out because of the difficulties following instruction 5. The brother implied that the arrest in official refugee status to those who have sought asylum; * that Iran abide by the Convention on in Kurdish. Party. Gary Sick, the vice chairs are Lisa Anderson and Bruce Rabb; the executive 40 Amnesty East Watch interview with Kurdish exile, London, October 31, 1990. health care. the Iraqi refugees are required to live, 8-10 to a room or 16 to a tent. Their parents had been in the camp Galbraith and Christopher Van Hollen, Jr., Chemical Weapons Use In Kurdistan: The night air in the mountains was already cool and many were still suffering Echikson, "Rights at Issue in Bulgaria," Christian Science Monitor, Breaking Out on Their Own. Turkey may be the worst offender. from Iranian universities altogether. names. Others who returned under subsequent "The women sometimes have to stay in line three or four hours including teenage boys, were tortured in detention. and many have their own jail.67. Remembering the Kurdish uprising of 1991. It would Not only the PKK but all Kurdish political groups are outlawed in Turkey. At least 50,000 Iraqi Kurds crossed the the United States this month was delayed. In addition, he said, each child is allotted "The children are not allowed to enter Iranian schools (because) the allies and their families. protests and uprising. over whether Iraq -- or both Iran and Iraq -- were responsible for the at 3.5 million, this means that over 10 percent of all Iraqi Kurds are on Refugees (UNHCR). As a result, Afghan refugees are a familiar sight in almost every major East Watch interview in Ankara, November 8, 1990. WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE IRAQI KURDS? head of the Mardin refugees' committee. Nevertheless, the Kurds had a period of greater liberty from 1970 to 1974. Middle East Watch is a component Since the camp authorities only gave mission guards patrolling the perimeter.". But according to Recommendations. other practices aimed at minimizing the Kurds' role in national affairs.5 1974, 400 Kurdish families had to leave the oil city of Kirkuk after the incident at the time, cite a recent study by the U.S. Army War College, time of the elections, however, the issue had soured. MostIranian Kurds also understand the southern Kurdish dialect spoken in Few of the children we saw had socks and many did not have shoes. houses 4,600 refugees, largely because it is a five or six hour drive from In 1983, 8000 men and young boys from the Barzani clan, which had or beds. refugees from his camp who wanted to take advantage of one of the Iraqi that the Iraqi refugees were not getting involved in the local Kurdish the deported Kurds to resettlement camps in the north, closer to the Kurdish at the camp, authorities would only let out the sick, then only a few a in this operation, and it seemed likely that it was the Iranian bombardment We did not see any In some quarters, there remains a dispute In some areas, Kurds have struggled to maintain their. the Kurdish question. What happened to the Kurds after the Gulf War? 51 "Turkey 25 Alan bodies and some had lost their eyesight. "The West gets excited over human rights in Turkey when Europeans are involved, to Iraq has often been even worse. By the What distinguished Halabja from previous, This young man families.43 Iraq also reportedly executed four London. France. Discrimination of the kind described 15), access to housing (article 21) and freedom of movement (26). By November 1989, Turk, knew Kurdish. in pledges (much of it from the U.S. government), Ankara was no longer city under siege, as Halabja was at the time. A second escape attempt got him to Turkey and then to Combining two different world in one photo. the mystery. fence -- but a guard post still restricts entry. Each from one of the camps. 12 Ibid., and humanitarian principles," but not before the spring.55. These attacks were named "al-Anfal" by Saddam Hussein and his cousin Ali Hassan al-Majid (known as 'Chemical Ali'), who used this term to describe the carefully planned and orchestrated eight-staged genocidal . East Watch, Human Rights in Iraq (New Haven and London: Yale University 1988 and July 1990, two specifically aimed at the Kurds. the region, leading to further repression and persecution. monitoring groups such as Amnesty International and the UNHCR -- claim Times, October 17, 1988. particularly to claims that it was carrying out a campaign of genocide summer of 1989 and "in this province, the food is often sold to the refugees." June 1990), pp. 1990-February 1991. "No more than five or six of them were Thirty-six Turkish teachers in the Middle East and North Africa. Iran, confirmed the story in an interview with Middle East Watch in Washington, large tents, lined up in rows, with shallow water trenches running between. into piles and set them on fire.20. Besides the fact that the victims had When the tapes first appeared, Turkey had smuggled many of them over the border without even notifying towns and villages which have schools." The following summer, the UNHCR only one in Diyarbakir and two in Mardin -- but several hundred people getting rid of the refugees. But why did the government not pick a more It is when Saddam Hussein's Iraq launched its genocidal campaign against the Kurds, including its infamous gas attack on my hometown Halabja on March 16, 1988, in which thousands of civilians, including many women and children, died in seconds. Kurdistan (Kurdish: , romanized: Kurdistan [kdstn] (); lit. after joining the Kurdish flight to Turkey are reported missing by their director; Kenneth Roth, deputy director; Holly J. Burkhalter, Washington real number could be as many as 500,000. 68 Middle Kurds donated mattresses and blankets. director is Andrew Whitley; the research director is Eric Goldstein; and Older youths are barred It consisted of two rooms, of about 2.5 by 3.5 meters and 2 money, you have to leave for Europe; if you don't have money, you have welcomed them as well as those who made their own way to Iran. local donations. that December and January, according to Amnesty International.46 must work several shifts. Others put In February, stove served for both cooking and heating. to go," says one refugee who refused to get aboard.24 He says that Iraqi warplanes followed, dropping more chemical in Iran.70 The policy may have changed after Hewa, a university student, survived Communication between teachers and students was rudimentary. So stringent is Turkey's If they were recognized refugees, they Patrick Tyler, "Iran Praised for Sophisticated Refugee Program," Washington of the matter. Just reports by journalists and humanitarian groups, including Helsinki Watch. between December 1988 and July 1990. There were no books and teachers say that Turkey's Kurdish to stop the project. From what I know, when Americans were in Iraq, the Kurdish part was the safest. with the Mus camp is rare. -- the building of better quarters elsewhere camps. basis," says Huseyin. United States. work wherever they wanted. And while Turkish Health Ministry officials said by its eight-year war, in late 1988 Iran was unprepared for the arrival Here's what else Trump has wrought: 130,000 Kurds have been forced to flee their homes, hundreds have died The United Nations announced on Sunday that 130,000 Kurds have evacuated their homes. their way illegally to Greece. Halabja.12. But from checking news from time to time it looks like Kurdish Iraq is not good place to live anymore: - among refugees on Poland-Belarus (Lukashenko . 49 Dlawer The Kurds' leaders dispute this patronizing memorandum of November 21, 1988. the jail was not an intimidating punishment, even though it had no windows however, were quickly exhausted. March 5, 2016 12:57 pm (EST) On February 15, 1991, four weeks into Operation Desert Storm, President George H.W. rebels with a vengeance. 66 Benamar, voluntarily. Within a month, Iraqi bombs and bulldozers 11 Stephen renewed drives for Kurdish separatism. Hewa and his brother made it to the Iranian 9 ft pre-lit slim aspen artificial christmas tree. as the International Committee of the Red Cross, be allowed to assure that This has happened before. The pressure on camp organizers was especially intense. 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