Volume 1. 1918–1930: looks at the aspirations of the Kurds before the Paris Peace Conference of 1919; the grievances, petitions and agitations of the Kurds when the Iraqi Government failed to deliver the pledges given by the League of Nations in 1926; the riots and Kurdish uprisings in Hakkari and Sulaimani; the Kurdish policy of the Iraqi Government and the Kurdish demands for a Kurdish state under a British Mandate. Volume 2. 1931–1940: reports the divergence of views between the British and Iraqi Governments on the Kurdish petitions; reports on the Local Languages Law, schools and education; describes the personalities and factions of the Kurdish tribes, the arrest of Taufiq Wahbi Beg and the treatment of Kurds in Iraq; reports on the Kurdish resentment of Arab rule and the beginning of Kurdish nationalism. Volume 3. 1941–1967: reports on the military and political position in Iranian Kurdistan in 1941; comments on the Turkish attitude to the Kurdish question; reports the situation along the Iran–Iraq border during World War II; describes the post-War Kurdish situation in Syria, Russia, Iraq and Azerbaijani Kurdistan; records the beginnings of Kurdish broadcasting in Iran, Iraq, Azerbaijan and Russia; reports the birth of the Kurdish Democratic Party in 1961; documents the deterioration of relations between the Kurds and the Iraqi Government in 1965, leading to the deployment of Iraqi troops; describes the Kurdish counter offensive and the supply of aid to the Kurds from Iran Volume 4. 1968–1974: reports the position of Kurds in Syria; describes the British attitude to the Kurdish rebellion in a document entitled 'Kurdistan: Iraq and Iran'; reports the 1970 Agreement between the Kurds and the Iraqi Government; records the resumption of hostilities in 1973 between the Ba'ath Party and the Kurds; reveals the plans in 1974 for Kurdish Autonomy; records activities of the Iraqi Front Delegation, Kurdish dissidents in London and Kurdish Red Crescent Society; includes British Government reviews of the Kurdish situation written in 1979, 1983 and 1992.
Political dispatches, correspondence and reports recording aspects of the Kurdish situation 1918–1974.
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