Kurdish independence activists

1st president of Iraqi Kurdistan (2005-17)

Kurdish nationalist (1903–1979)

Founder and Supreme Guide of the Republic of Mahabad (1893–1947)

Acting military commander of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK)

Kurdish soldier and politician (1892-1976)

Iraqi Kurdish politician (1944–2017)

Turkish writer of Kurdish ancestry (1893–1951)

President of the Republic of Ararat

Turkish military officer and statesperson of Kurdish ancestry (1882–1925)

Turkish statesperson of Kurdish ancestry (1851–1926)

Turkish statesperson (1891–1974)

Kurdish boy killed by German police