Water Projects and the Kurds of Turkey

After the collapse and partition of the Ottoman Empire at the end of World War I, the Kurds were promised the possibility of an independent state in articles 62 and 64 of the Treaty of Sevres, signed on August 10, 1920. But there was to be no Kurdish state. The main reason for this was the emergence of a strong Turkish nationalist state in the aftermath of the war and the subsequent suppression of Kurdish nationalist revolts in 1925, 1930 and 1937–38 (Olson 1997: 168–193).