Xeyidîm

Yekbûn

Yekbûn (English: unity) is a Kurdish political organization established by Kurds in the Soviet Union that sought to make Kurdish culture autonomous and establish an autonomous Kurdistan there. After Perestroika in the 1980s, the cultural efforts and autonomy aspirations of the Soviet Kurds became more evident. Kurds living in all republics united to form Yekbûn in 1989 and worked to re-establish Kurdistan Uyezdi. Soviet authorities began work on the reconstruction of Kurdish autonomy, but with ideological differences. The First Nagorno-Karabakh War, Turkey's intervention, and the disintegration of the USSR prevented the Kurds from establishing autonomous regions. According to the census results in 1989, a total of 152,717 Kurds lived in the country. more »