19/02/2012 20:01
Massoud Barzani President of Kurdistan, speaks during a ceremony held in Arbil on Sunday, 02/19/2012, 66 for the anniversary of Declaration of State of Republic of Kurdistan in Mahabad in Iran, which was announced in 1946
"Portal Iraq," Erbil - The president of the Kurdistan region of Iraq, Massoud Barzani, Sunday, that the time is ripe for the exercise of the process of self-determination for the Kurds, and stressed that the region is undergoing rapid and must prepare for it, stressing that the rights of the Kurds is not granted one, but through the recognition of them.
Barzani said in a speech today during a ceremony to mark the 66 of the founding of the Republic of Kurdistan in northwest Iran, "The region is witnessing a phase of rapid transformations, and we have to prepare well have," stressing that "the time has come to exercise the right to self-determination."
Barzani explained that "the right given us by God, and let us know how we exercise this right and act wisely," pointing out that "each part of Kurdistan, the privacy of call handling in accordance with them."
Barzani pointed out that "the establishment of the Republic of Kurdistan is an important shift in the history of the Kurds," noting that "despite its short life as an experiment but its impact and its impact will remain as long as the Kurds."
The President of Kurdistan, the "History of the Kurds is filled with pages sweet time, he was the people of treachery large, it was our division deduced from our will and continue our struggle is the other throughout history, was armed in the earlier stages, to the need to preserve and defend our identity, and we passed that stage and we have proved our the blood of our martyrs. "
The Barzani that "the time now come to recognize our rights that can not wait to give us, because it is not granted, but recognized", following that "In spite of the attempt of enemies to weaken the will of the Kurdish people by intervening in the liberation movement Kurdish, from which they can not, and now We are in harmony, and finished the stage of fighting brothers, and the shedding of blood of each other. "
He said that Barzani, the Kurdish issue "was and still is a national, not a religious problem, were not now and not before now," he said, adding that "the clergy were the advocates of Kurdish national rights and were the leaders of revolutions in the past."
He continued by saying "the right to harm a large us and our friends in the early stages of past and stood at large systems and states without going into any conflict with their people, although attempts have been made to convert our struggle into a struggle Kurdish - Arabic and Kurdish - Turkish, and Kurdish - Persian."
The Republic of Mahabad, Kurdistan and the capital of northwest Iran had announced in December 22, 1946, led by Kurdish cleric Qazi Muhammad.
And received a Kurdish state that emerged Soviet support, broad support of the Kurds in the different countries where they live, so that hundreds of fighters from the Iraqi Kurds led by Mullah Mustafa Barzani, joined the fledgling state to defend it.
After that the withdrawal of Soviet support for that country collapsed on the tenth of December 1946, at the hands of the Iranian army, which has led to death, on 31 March 1947.
And is still a Kurdish state in the memory of the popular and political response so far and held its founding anniversary celebrations each year.
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