Declaration
Declaration of a Kingdom of Kurdistan, 1922
· Sulaimaniyah
Sheikh Mahmud Barzanji declared a Kingdom of Kurdistan around Sulaimaniyah under British-administered Iraq; it was unrecognised and suppressed.
What happened
Sheikh Mahmud Barzanji, who had worked with the British administration, declared a “Kingdom of Kurdistan” in and around Sulaimaniyah in 1922; it was not recognised and was ended by British intervention.[1]
Sources for this page
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Claim: In 1922 in and around Sulaimaniyah, Sheikh Mahmud Barzanji, who had been working with the British administration, declared a “Kingdom of Kurdistan”, which was not recognised and was ended by British intervention. Attributed to International Centre for Defence and Security (2017)
- International Centre for Defence and Security, A Hundred Years of Attempts to Create an Independent Kurdistan (International Centre for Defence and Security (Tallinn), 19 December 2017) link, section on Sheikh Mahmut Barzanji. Source record