No Brotherhood with Killers - Yes to Kurdistan Liberation

Be careful: Iran must not subject Eastern Kurdistan to Anfal and chemical attacks like Southern Kurdistan

Dr. Sharif Ali | Exclusive to iKurd.net
Translated by iKurd.net from Kurdish Awene

Western [Syrian] Kurdistan has a continuous need for unified national support from all components of the great Kurdish nation.

On one hand, Western Kurdistan must always carry out dignified national self-defense, and on the other hand, Kurds from all parts of Kurdistan must continue organized and constant protests and demonstrations, especially Kurds in the diaspora, in front of U.S. embassies.

Fortunately, the components of the great Kurdish nation across all parts of Kurdistan, which has been subjected to genocide hundreds of times, have in recent days demonstrated a very high level of national awareness. In particular, Southern [Iraqi] Kurdistan has become the rear support and safe haven for Western Kurdistan.

To be honest and consistent, despite the fact that the leadership of the KDP has had, and still has, deep disagreements and conflicts with the PKK, Massoud Barzani has acted in a national manner in recent days, and I evaluate most of his recent positions positively.

This is because we witnessed that on October 16, leaders of the PUK and the PKK were saying that the era of the nation-state and Kurdish nationalism is over, and that this is the era of the “brotherhood of peoples.”

Karayilan and Bayik themselves repeatedly announced that having a state in the South and starting guerrilla struggle in the East would mean the collapse of Iran, and that this is an imperialist idea which they reject, because they claim that now is the era of the brotherhood of peoples.

However, time has proven that the idea of the “brotherhood of peoples,” which the old political wing of the PUK imported into Kurdistan through British intelligence, is an imperialist idea aimed at dissolving the Kurds into the artificial states of Persian, Turkish, and Arab imperialism.

I hope the United States, based on intelligence information, will not fall into the trap that Iran wants to set at this moment, using the PKK as a so-called self-defense force. Because the CIA and Mossad [Israel’s intelligence agency] have penetrated all Kurdish forces, including the PKK and the SDF.

Another important point that must be briefly mentioned here is this: I hope it will not later be proven that the PKK, through an agreement with Erdogan, handed over important parts of Western Kurdistan to Golani’s gangs.

Although yesterday, in my interview with KNN, I briefly mentioned this point, I repeat it again here: travel to Western Kurdistan must be organized, and chaos must not be allowed in a way that permits all kinds of people to enter. Because among such people there may be intelligence agents and militias, and they could cause serious harm to Kurds in general, and to Western Kurdistan in particular.

A Syrian government Islamist militant, Rami Yousif al-Dahsh from Urfa, holds the braid of a Kurdish female YPJ fighter after killing her in Raqqa, Syria, January 2026. Photo: iKurd.net/screengrab/video/X

The occupying imperialist regimes of Persia, Turkey, and the Arabs are extremely brutal and savage in their bloodshed against Kurds. None of them is better than the others, and none of them is willing to grant Kurds any rights within their artificial states.

Therefore, we must not place ourselves in either the Shiite or Sunni camp. Instead, our cause must have a liberation-focused (nationalist) identity, and nothing more. Accordingly, we must never trust any of the occupiers of Kurdistan. For this reason, do not take actions, out of sacred Kurdish anger toward recent U.S. positions, that would push you toward the Kurdish-killing clerical regime of Iran.

Numerous British and CIA documents prove that the Iranian regime, in an organized manner and through the PUK, carried out the Anfal campaign in Germiyan and the chemical bombing of Halabja against Southern Kurdistan.

Therefore, it is essential that Kurds practice united and organized resistance. It is important not to lose momentum for even a single moment in all forms of struggle. At the same time, our diplomacy with the United States must continue, because the imperialist regimes of Persia, Turkey, and the Arabs, through their agents, seek to push Kurds into opposing the United States. We must be very careful, because this serves the interests of the occupying regimes of Kurdistan.

Syria’s interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa, also known as Abu Mohammed al-Golani (left), shakes hands with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at the at the Presidential Complex, Ankara, Turkey, February 4, 2025. Photo: Turkish Presidency

Even the Iranian regime seeks to portray the Kurds of the West as aligned with itself and Russia, so that the United States will fully unleash Golani, Erdogan’s fascist forces. Because destroying the liberation experience of any part of Kurdistan serves the strategic interests of all occupying regimes of Kurdistan.

What the United States has done so far can be diplomatically evaluated as giving a partial green light to Golani, Erdogan’s fascist forces, not a total one. We must remain diplomatically alert to these distinctions.

Once again, I will briefly outline the reasons why Kurds are suffering in this tragic situation in two main points:

First: unity, common discourse, and a unified position among all Kurds must continue in the liberation, civil, political, and diplomatic struggle. We may criticize the United States, but we must not turn it into an enemy of any part of Kurdistan. Because I believe the Iranian regime has a deceptive and malicious plan to push Kurds into a situation in which Western Kurdistan would face Anfal-like destruction similar to Southern Kurdistan.

We Kurds must continue defensive and liberation-based resistance in Western Kurdistan, never surrender under any circumstances, and never abandon diplomatic struggle with the United States.

Second: the components of the great Kurdish nation must evaluate the Turkish, Persian, and Arab imperialist occupiers with the same standard and unwavering belief, and must not differentiate among them. Because all of them are equally bloodthirsty enemies of the great Kurdish nation; none of them is even slightly better than the others, and all of them are completely brutal.

Be assured that through unity, solidarity, and a unified stance, by rejecting the imported idea of the “brotherhood of peoples” promoted by British intelligence, and by raising the revolutionary slogan “Yes to the liberation of Kurdish land,” in the end, no matter how many sacrifices we make, we will succeed. Because the stage of liberation does not accept shame or fear; it requires unity and continuous determination.

Dr. Sharif Ali: PhD in International Diplomacy, United Kingdom.

This article was originally published in the Kurdish language in Awene Newspaper on January 23, 2026.

The opinions are those of the writer and do not necessarily represent the views of iKurd.net or its editors.