In same logic I guess I can claim the heritage of old Anatolian civilizations as mine since I'm living in the same land ?
Now what was the argument of mine ? I said most of historical sites of "Kurdish" region are of Armenian, Assyrian, Roman, Arab, partially Turkish origin with little Kurdish contribution, where was the Kurds at that time ? your natural borders were Zagros mountains, before Arab and Turkish invasions of Anatolia you were only around the Northern edges of Zagros mountains, around Şırnak and Hakkari and may be southern edges of surrounding regions.
Claiming Ayyubid heritage is no different then me claiming Ghaznavid heritage(I know some people do it), both are ridiculous, just because leader of the state happened to have Turkish or Kurdish ethnic background doesn't automatically means we can claim their heritage, in both states other then the ethnic background of leaders there was nothing Turkish or Kurdish, Salahaddin Ayyubi was basically reflecting the character of a statesmen of his age, official languages were either Arabic or Persian, while Turkic is sometimes daily spoken in military and partly court, literature , architecture, state order were all derivered from them.
No you can't because you share nothing with them either culturally or genetically. Well gentically you're a mix of many ethnicites so who knows.
Are you refering to
Although the dynasty was of Central Asian Turkic origin, it was thoroughly
Persianized in terms of language, culture, literature, and habits,
[12][13][14][15] and hence is regarded by some as a "Persian dynasty" rather than Turkic.
Well the Ayyubid Empire was an Islamic empire ruled by Kurds just at the Ottoman by Turks otherwise we can claim that Ottoman Empire was Arabic/Persian. Which is not the case. Actaully we can claim it, in fact especially me as a Kurd from Jordan. The majority of the Kurds in Jordan the Al-Kurdi are descendant from the Ayyubis. The Palestinian general council in Erbil said that 10% of all the Palestinians are descendant from Kurds from Ayyubid era, many of them have Al-Kurdi as last name.
You claim yourself that the Kurdish ancestral history doesn't extend west of Diyarbakir but look at this, why do they call it Mountain of the Kurds?
Kurd Mountain That was during Ayyubid era.
Why is there a castle called Hisn Al Akrad? Castle of the Kurds not far from Homs?
And please don't claim he was Turkish many of you do just to undermine anything Kurdish saying his brother or something had a Turksih name. Well his uncle's name who was his general, his name was Shêrkew/Shêrkuh which in Kurdish means mountain lion.
There are documents that claims that the Kurdish officers often ended up in fights with the Turkish Mameluk officers over disagreements.
But the core of our history lies in Zagros mountains and that we are mountainfolks I do not doubt. And that we are descendents of the natives of those mountains such as the different Hurrian groups like Lullubians, Manneans and Gutians.
But it isn't like we just settled in empty lands from people who had fled when we are talking about Syria and some parts of Turkey.
Ishak Pasha Palace which is far up north in Wan was built by Kurds during the 15th century so we do have our hsitorical places u know. We always lived there along different christian groups, traded with them and lived with them. They built churches, we built mosques.
My dear kurdish friend
dont know guess its time for all of us to be a bit realistic and the crude fact is eventhough kurds are here in ME for quite a long time they never had a (real )state i.e they never managed to have a political entity which resembels a state or whatso ever. just for the sake of a coparison we Turks are origanaly coming from central asia so we are not native. But in less than 1000 years Turks establised two empires and a republic... just in asia minor. unfortunatly ıt seems kurds as a community lack the necessary historical, cultural and social infrstructure which is requried to own a state. ıf they had they would have establised their state or what so ever long ago. a tribal community living in a feodal age .thls is what you are... AND please dont putting the blame on us!
A proper modern 20th century state, no we haven't. But we have the Median Empire and only at that were we united as tribes under one command. We have had hundreds of Kingdoms/Dynasties during the past thousand years but only a very few of them working togheter throughout history. Kurds have it very difficult working togheter, that's due to we are very selfish as people when it comes to one and another but not to outsiders, then we awlays share and work with them. So we know our abilities. And why the hell would we blame you for this?
Not only the terrorists kidnapped their children, but apparently also threatened the family those bastards...
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