@article{article_548043, title={Nationalistic Senses and Kurdish Politics in the Last Century}, journal={Nubihar Akademi}, volume={2}, pages={43–64}, year={2017}, DOI={10.55253/nubihar.548043}, author={Keskin, Necat}, keywords={Sykes-Picot,Kurds,nationalism,Kurdistan,Middle East}, abstract={The Sykes-Picot Agreement, agreed privately by France and Britain and subsequently extended to include Russia, was eventually revealed or publicized as drawing boundaries in the Middle-East for the 20th century. The land in which Kurds were living was object of this division. One of the reason why the Kurds did not fight for their own interests was the weakness of nationalistic feelings among them, while the other was lack of concensus among their leaders (emirs and pashas), which continued even after World War I and leading to the Kurds’ exclusion from international agreements. Consequently, four distinct Kurdish societies emerged in four different “nation-states”. Nationalism is bound to the idea of a ‘land’ at first, and the people living in the same land are emotionally close to each other even though they do not know each other, which is determined as ‘imagined community’ by Benedict Anderson. In this article the current situation of the Kurdish politics and their “nationalism” are going to be discussed by comparing them to the situation in which Sykes- Picot agreement occurred with the recent happenings such as “postponing national congreess”, “liberating Shingal”, and “Kobane” fighting. <div> </div>}, number={7}, publisher={PAK AJANS Yayıncılık}