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Society for the Rise of Kurdistan (Kurdish: Cemîyeta Tealîya Kurdistanê[1]) also known as the Society for the Advancement of Kurdistan (SAK), was secretly established in Constantinople on 6 November 1917 [2] and officially announced organization formed on the 17 December 1918.[3][4] It was headquartered in Istanbul, with the aim of creating an independent Kurdish state in eastern Turkey.[5] The Society based its statements for an independent or autonomous Kurdistan on the Treaty of Sèvres and the Fourteen Points stipulated by Woodrow Wilson.[6] The society formed many local dependencies in the eastern provinces of Turkey.[6]
- ^ "Mewlanzade Rifat û Rojnameya Serbestî" (in Kurdish and English). Retrieved 21 December 2019.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - ^ Ozoglu, Hakan (2004). Kurdish Notables and the Ottoman State: Evolving Identities, Competing Loyalties, and Shifting Boundaries. SUNY Press. p. 147. ISBN 0791459934.
- ^ Özoğlu, Hakan (2004-01-01). Kurdish Notables and the Ottoman State: Evolving Identities, Competing Loyalties, and Shifting Boundaries. SUNY Press. pp. 88–89. ISBN 978-0-7914-5994-2.
- ^ Özoğlu, Hakan (2001). ""Nationalism" and Kurdish Notables in the Late Ottoman–Early Republican Era". International Journal of Middle East Studies. 33 (3): 387. doi:10.1017/S0020743801003038. ISSN 0020-7438. JSTOR 259457. S2CID 154897102.
- ^ The Kurdish nationalist movement: opportunity, mobilization, and identity, by David Romano, p.28.
- ^ a b Robert W.Olson (1989), p.28–29