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Kurdish Cavalrymen called Peshmerga. Peshmerga is the term used by Kurds to refer to armed Kurdish fighters. Literally meaning "those who face death". The Peshmerga forces of Kurdistan have been in existence since the advent of the Kurdish independence movement in the early 1920s, following the collapse of the Ottoman and Qajar empires which had jointly ruled over the area (click on the picture for more information)
The Rise of the Ataturk
The treaty of Sevres was largely designed with the interests of Britain and France in mind. The two powers had been competing for world prestige for several hundred years and both had great empires that incorporated colonies and imperial holdings all over the world. With the end of World War One came a new opportunity to expand these empires into a region that had been desired by the Europeans since the crusades. At the same time the allies wanted to punish the nations involved for starting a war that had cost the lives of so many. In Germany this took the form of the Treaty of Versailles and the Allies decided to continue the trend of heavy handed terms into the Middle East. The treaty proposed by the allies was harsh, forcing the Ottomans to make major territorial concessions across the Middle East and several economic sanctions such as the creation of "free ports,"but with little alternative the leaders of the Ottoman Empire agreed to sign. The decision to sign was not a popular one in what remained of the Empire and Mustafa Kemal, who had won his fame at Gallipoli, used the outrage of the decision to overthrow the CUP and create the state of Turkey.
Atatürk was a Turkish nationalist leader and founder and first president of
the republic of Turkey
the republic of Turkey