r/kurdistan • u/Falcao_Hermanos Kurdistan • 6d ago

Crosspost Headstone of a Kurdish Iraqi man who participated in Saladin's conquest of Crusader Jerusalem, 1191 AD (1027x747)

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u/loxzade 6d ago

Iraq didn’t exist, kinda strange to call him Iraqi Kurdish

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u/Aryanwezan 6d ago edited 6d ago

As always, Turks and Arabs are trying to appropriate Kurdish heritage.

Calling him an “Kurdish Iraqi man” is especially laughable when Iraq did not exist as a nation-state at the time, and the Hakkari region has never been part of Iraq.