ISSUE 179 - November 7, 2025 - Stamp News Online Magazine
Landlocked Countries
Iraqi Kurdistan
By Geir Sør-Reime
The Kurds is a people that inhabits the border areas between Turkey, Iraq, Syria and Iran.
Their struggle for their own state is long, and shortly after the end of WWI, the Kurd leader Sheikh Mahmud Barzani attempted to establish a Kurdish kingdom with himself as king.
His first attempt was May 23, 1919. It turned out to be a very short episode as he was wounded in battle June 18 and by the British sent in exile in India. Already during this brief episode, he probably issued two of the four stamps that are . . .
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