Chapter 606 Türkiye (3)

Molotov conveyed Yannik's words to Stalin truthfully, causing Stalin to roar and immediately order the Transcaucasian Military District to prepare to enter Turkey to fight at any time.

Seeing that Stalin had no intention of giving in, Yannik also sent a mountain division (most of Turkey is plateau and mountainous).

Due to the good performance of the mountain troops in World War I, although the German army was limited to 100,000 people after the war, the Germans still retained a mountain force in their army, which was the core of the German mountain troops later. Later, Austria was annexed, and the Austrian army with mountain troops was also incorporated into the German army to form the first and second mountain divisions, which expanded to 10 divisions at most during the war.

The symbol of the German mountain troops is Edelweiss, which is also called the Brave, symbolizing bravery, tenacity and perseverance. This flower is mostly produced in the Alps in Europe, usually growing above 1,700 meters above sea level. Because it only grows on very rare rocky surfaces, it is extremely rare.

Since its inception, the German Mountain Division has been famous for its bravery, tenacity and ferocity in combat. Few of its troops were captured. At the end of the war, the mountain troops were the last troops of the German Army to lay down their arms. Their spirit was as tenacious as their mountain ancestors.

In addition to sending troops directly to participate in the war, Yannick also has a killer-the Kurds!

There are four major ethnic groups in the Middle East: Persians (Iranians), Arabs, Turks, and Kurds. Among them, the Kurds are the only one of the four major ethnic groups in the Middle East that has not established a country.

The Kurds have lived in the northern mountainous areas of the Mesopotamian Basin since ancient times. This is a buffer zone between the power boundary of the Anatolian Peninsula, the Mesopotamian Basin and Persia, and it is a real "no man's land". This special political and geographical environment makes rulers from all over the world mainly win them over, supplemented by military conquest.

As long as the Kurds symbolically recognize the rule of the other party, they can obtain a very high degree of autonomy. From the ancient Babylonian Empire to the Assyrian Empire, from the Persian Empire to the Alexander Empire, and finally to the Roman Empire that controlled the Mediterranean, this vassalage lasted for 2,500 years.

In 600 AD, the iron hoofs of the Arab army stepped into various parts of West Asia, including Kurdistan. They forced the Kurds to believe in Islam, which was founded by the Prophet Muhammad. From then on, all Kurds became Muslims who believed in Allah. After converting to Islam, the Kurds gave birth to a legendary figure known as the "Islam Hero" - Saladin. Under his leadership, Muslims recaptured the holy city of Jerusalem that was occupied during the Crusades.

In the 14th century AD, the Ottoman Turks, descendants of the Western Turks from Central Asia, began their military struggle to dominate Europe, Asia and Africa. Although Kurdistan became a territory of the Ottoman Empire, it also maintained a semi-autonomous small dynasty, that is, paying taxes and recruiting young and middle-aged people to fight for the Ottoman Turks, and it was still in a relatively peaceful state.

By the time of the First World War, the Ottoman Empire joined the Allied Powers, where Germany was, and was ultimately defeated, leaving the Middle East in a mess.

The world was swept by a wave of national independence, and the Kurds joined in, demanding an independent nation.

For Britain, the victor of World War I, although the Ottoman Empire had been defeated, in order to prevent it from reviving, it had to divide the country into many independent small countries, which would no longer be able to fight against itself. Therefore, the Kurds' demand for independence was in line with theirs.

In 1920, the Allies signed the Treaty of Sevres with the Ottoman Empire. The treaty stipulated many extremely harsh terms for the Ottoman Empire, such as ceding the Ottoman Empire's territory in the Middle East, the Allied forces having military rights around the empire, and the Allies having extraterritoriality in the Ottoman Empire. In addition, for the Kurdish region, the treaty stipulated that the Kurds had the right to decide whether to be independent through a referendum.

Before the Kurds had time to celebrate, an uprising led by Kemal broke out in Turkey, the Ottoman Empire was completely dead, and the Treaty of Sevres became a piece of waste paper. The newly born Republic of Turkey signed the Treaty of Lausanne with the Allied Powers and determined its own borders. The Kurdistan region was divided into four parts, belonging to Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Syria. More than half of the Kurds are distributed in Turkey, accounting for one-third of the Turkish population.

Because the biggest dream of the Kurds is to establish a country dominated by Kurds - Kurdistan; therefore, Turkey has always regarded the Kurds as a major concern.

Once the Kurdistan State is to be established, the territories of Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Syria will shrink. Of course, the four countries do not agree, especially Turkey. The area of ​​post-war Turkey is not very large. If the Kurds establish a country, a large part of Turkey's territory will be deducted according to the population ratio.

Therefore, the Turkish top leaders are more inclined to form a single ethnic group within Turkey and assimilate the Kurds.

The Kurds are mainly concentrated in the southeast of Turkey, with a large population and easy to form a joint force. Then the solution is relatively simple, one word - demolition! Turkey moved some Kurds to the Eastern Thrace region (the European part of Turkey) and divided and ruled. At the same time, Turkey prohibits Kurds from wearing ethnic clothing, Kurdish place names must be "Turkified", and the Kurdish language is also subject to various restrictions.

The Kurds believed that they had been forced into a dead end by Turkey and began to resist. Uprisings against Turkey often broke out in Kurdish settlements. The contradiction between Turkey and the Kurds became more and more intensified.

Now Germany has said that as long as the Kurds in Turkey dare to resist Turkey's rule, they will get their own country.

This sentence is like gasoline poured on the flames. Large-scale armed uprisings broke out in all places where Kurds live in Turkey.

Just when the Turks mobilized their troops to suppress them, Greece, Iran, Iraq, Serbia, and Bulgaria declared war on Turkey at the same time.

In mid-December, the five countries sent troops to attack Turkey at the same time.

At this time, Turkey did not have its own complete industrial system, and its weapons and equipment were quite backward. Many of the rifles used by the army were still Mauser 1903 or even Mauser 1893 during the First World War.

Although the Soviet Union agreed to provide aid materials, the Soviet Union was not the wealthy United States. Many of the so-called aid materials were antiques eliminated by the Soviet army.