Timeline of Kurdish uprisings

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List of conflicts

Date	Uprising	Location	Result
838–841[1]	Kurdish Dasni tribe uprising against the Abbasids	Abbasid Caliphate	Suppressed
955–1071[2][3][4]	War against the Musafirid.	Rawadid dynasty	Victory
1045	Battle of Dvin	Shaddadids	Victory
990–1085	Kurdish uprising	The Marwanids	Victory, led to the birth of the Marwanids dynasty
1506–1510	Kurdish-Yazidi uprising against the Safavids[5]	Safavid Persia	Suppressed when the Yazidi leader, Shír Ṣárim, was defeated in battle.
1609–1610	Battle of Dimdim[6]	Safavid Persia	Suppressed
1775	Bajalan uprising[7]	Zand dynasty	Suppressed
1806–1808	Baban uprising[8]	Ottoman Empire	Suppressed
1880–1881	Revolt by Sheikh Ubeydullah of Nehri against the Qajars.[9][10]	Qajar Persia & Ottoman Empire	Defeat
late 1890s – 1900	Siege of Constantinople (1391)[11]	Ottoman Empire	Suppressed
Early March – 4 April 1914	Bitlis uprising	Ottoman Empire	Suppressed
1914 – 1917	Kurdish rebellions during World War I	Ottoman Empire	Establishment of a quasi-independent Kurdish state until 1919
1919–1922 – First Mahmud Barzanji Revolt	First Mahmud Barzanji revolt	Kingdom of Iraq	Suppressed
1918–1922	First Simko Shikak revolt	Qajar Persia	Suppressed
1918–2003	Iraqi–Kurdish conflict	Iraq	Victory
1918–present	Kurdish–Iranian conflict	Qajar Persia	Ongoing
6 March – 17 June 1921	Koçgiri rebellion	Turkey	Suppressed
November 1922 – July 1924	Second Mahmud Barzanji revolt	Kingdom of Iraq, Kingdom of Kurdistan	Creation of the Kingdom of Kurdistan[12][13]
August 1924	Beytussebab rebellion	Turkey	Suppressed
8 February – March 1925	Sheikh Said rebellion[9]	Turkey	Suppressed
1926	Second Simko Shikak revolt	Pahlavi Persia	Suppressed, Simko Shikak flees to Mandatory Iraq
October 1927 – September 17, 1930	First, second and third Ararat rebellion[14][15][16][17][18]	Republic of Ararat, Republic of Turkey	Suppressed, Republic of Ararat disbanded.
1931	Jafar Sultan revolt	Iran	Suppressed
1931–1932	Ahmed Barzani revolt	Kingdom of Iraq	Suppressed, low-level insurgency continues through 1933, another revolt by Barzanis erupts in 1943
1935	Yazidi revolt of 1935	Mandatory Iraq	Suppressed
20 March – November, 1937 and 2 January – December, 1938	Dersim rebellion	Republic of Turkey	Suppressed, see Dersim Massacre
1941–1944	Hama Rashid revolt	Pahlavi Iran	Suppressed, Hama Rashid driven into Iraq
November 1945 – December 15, 1946	Iran crisis of 1946[19]	Pahlavi Iran, Republic of Mahabad	Creation of the Soviet-backed Republic of Mahabad, revolt later suppressed
11 September 1961 – 1970	First Iraqi–Kurdish War	Republic of Iraq	Stalemate, led to the Iraqi-Kurdish Autonomy Agreement of 1970
1967	1967 Kurdish revolt in Iran	Pahlavi Iran	Suppressed
April 1974 – 1975	Second Iraqi–Kurdish War	Iraq	Suppressed, the Iraqi government re-establishes control over Kurdistan
1976–1978	PUK insurgency	Iraq	Indecisive, led to the Kurdish rebellion of 1983
1979	1979 Kurdish rebellion in Iran	Iran	Suppressed
1983–1986	Kurdish rebellion of 1983	Iraq	Indecisive, led to the Al-Anfal Campaign
15 August 1984 – present	Kurdish–Turkish conflict	Republic of Turkey	Ongoing[20][21][22][23][24][25][26]
1986–1996	KDPI insurgency	Government of Iran	Suppressed; KDPI announces unilateral cease-fire in 1996
1 March – 5 April 1991	1991 Iraqi uprisings	Ba'athist Iraq, Iraqi Kurdistan	Victory; establishment of the Kurdish Autonomous Republic, also known as Iraqi Kurdistan
March 2004	2004 Qamishli riots	Syria	Suppressed
1 April 2004–present	Iran–PJAK conflict	Iran	Ongoing
19 July 2012–present	Rojava conflict of the Syrian civil war	Syria	Kurdish fighters have taken control of 365 towns and villages in Syrian Kurdistan and 2 districts in Aleppo by September 2012.[27]
24 July 2015 – present	Kurdish–Turkish conflict	Republic of Turkey	Ongoing
19 April 2016 – present	Western Iran clashes	Iran	Ongoing
24 August 2016 – present	Turkish military intervention in Syria	Syria	Ongoing
15 – 27 October 2017	2017 Iraqi–Kurdish conflict	Iraq,  Iraqi Kurdistan	Ceasefire, Iraqi Kurdistan loses territory, including Sinjar and Kirkuk

See also

• A Modern History of the Kurds by David McDowall

References

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2. Hugh Kennedy, The Prophet and the Age of the Caliphates The Kurdish dynasties which emerged in the second half of tenth century...the Rawwadids
3. Sharaf Khan Bidlisi The Sharafnam̂a Rawwadi Kurds..
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