The impact of the July 14, 1958 revolution on the Iraq Kurds

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1 Modern History Division-, Department of History-Faculty of Women for Arts, Science and Education-Ain Shams University

2 Department of History, Faculty of African Postgraduate Studies.,Cairo University ,Egypt

3 Department of History, Faculty of Women, Ain Shams University, Egypt

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This Study discusses the impact of the July 14, 1958 revolution on the Kurds of Iraq. The revolution took place as an expression of rejection of the policies of the monarchical governments, in which the Iraqi people in general and those belonging to Kurdish nationalism in particular suffered from the consequences of those policies on poor social and economic conditions and political oppression. The July 14 Revolution took place and most of the leaders of the Kurdish national movement were in exile in the Soviet Union for eleven years after the elimination of the second Barzan insurrection in 1945 AD against the monarchy and British subordination.

The Kurds supported the revolution and declared loyalty to the Sovereignty Council. The Revolutionary Command Council, headed by Iraqi Prime Minister Abdul Karim Qassem, allowed the return of exiled Kurds to Iraq. Those imprisoned on political charges were pardoned, as the Kurds had been granted under the revolution and a temporary constitution was adopted that recognized the national and cultural rights of the Kurds. For the first time in the modern history of Iraq, political participation in the Sovereignty Council as well as in the Council of Ministers, in addition to the promise to improve the economic conditions of the Kurds according to a future plan for the reconstruction of the north.

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Buhūth
Volume 5, Issue 1
Social Sciences and Humanities and languages
January 2025
Pages 33-53

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