Here we see a typical effect of the education system.
Now I will tell you a historical event and I will leave you the answer to the question of how the children of two countries with such a history can be so hostile:
Towards the end of the 1930s, relations between Iraq and Turkey had been excellent level. So much so that the two countries came to the point of unification. The text of the confederation was agreed and the date of the referendum was decided. It is little known, but in the late 1930s made intensive studies to come together as confederation between Iraq and Turkey. However, just before the official announcement of the decision, the Iraqi Chief of General Staff, who made the most effort in this regard, died in an assassination near Mosul in 1937, and all the efforts made until then were unsuccessful.
Iraq, although it seemed to be independent in those years, was still a British-dominated kingdom, and Ghazi, one of the grandchildren of Sharif Hussein, who started the famous Arab rebellion against us during the First World War, sat on the throne. It was announced that the British protectorate ended in 1932, but everything remained on paper. The production of oil, which the British Petroleum Company started to produce, increases every year, and the British have had a say in Iraq more than before.
There was Hikmet Süleyman, a member of a Georgian family who had originally settled in Iraq; The Chief of the General Staff was Bekir Sidki Pasha, also from a prominent Kurdish family…
Both were former Ottoman bureaucrats and officers, educated in Istanbul, and even Bekir Sidki Pasha commanded a Turkish brigade and fighting against the British on the Dardanelles front in 1915 and received the “Canakkale Medal”.
Hikmet Süleyman and Bekir Sıdkı Pasha preferred to live in Baghdad instead of Istanbul after the collapse of the empire and became the most powerful rulers of Iraq.
For the realization of the Turkey-Iraq Confederation, one of the names most striving are Prime Minister Hikmet Suleiman Bek and Chief of Staff Sidki Pasha. Both countries became closer and closer since the 1930s, the leaders of Iraq went to Ankara many times and met with Mustafa Kemal and İsmet Pasha and the outlines of the confederation were drawn during these visits.
After the details were determined, it was time to announce the Confederation. Bekir Sidki Pasha's plan was going to Ankara in the last week of August 1937 and the official statement was to be made in Ankara.
In those years, it was not possible to go from Baghdad to Ankara without a transfer and the plane had to stop in several places and get fuel.
Bekir Sidki Pasha, who left Baghdad for Ankara on the morning of August 11, 1937, first arrived at Mosul, the first transfer station, and settled in the guesthouse of the military airport in Mosul with Muhammad Ali Cevad, a senior commander of the Iraqi Air Force.
But that night, a few guns exploded in the guesthouse and Bekir Sidki Pasha and Muhammad Ali Jawad rolled to the ground with blood!
Both of them died on the there and the confederation project was remained a dream... The rumors in the following years were that the British finger was behind the murders and that British had eliminated Bekir Sidki to prevent a Turkish-Iraqi Confederation!
Following the assassination, Baghdad suddenly became involved, thousands of people were arrested, and Prime Minister Hikmet Suleyman had to give his resignation to King Gazi, but after a while he was arrested too! He was brought before the military court, the crime he was accused of was not disclosed, but the court decided to execute him. but somehow he was not executed, he was confined to a prison in the north of Baghdad, forgiven two years later, and allowed to return to Baghdad on condition that he would not do politics again.
After all of that , Iraq experienced its real turmoil two years later in 1939
One day, the brakes of King Gazi, who was keen on speeding with the car, exploded and hit a tree and his body was shattered. Rumors did not stop again, the accident was actually assassination for some ones, and Britishes did again.
With the replacement of throne from Ghazi to his son Faysal, the fight for power in Baghdad became more heated, coups and attempts to overthrow of the government tryings followed each other. Finally, in 1958, one of the bloodiest coup de'tat in history took place in Baghdad on the night of July 14th. The coup plundered the young king Faisal, his family, and the entire senior administration of Iraq in their beds that night. As you know the next story, the pan-Arabist ideals of Abdüsselám Arif were melted away by the power of the UK-US shift/struggle in Iraq. And stones were already being laid for Saddam's path ...
How many of us know about this? Very few of us, because we do not read our common history, we read the propaganda of the hegamons.
