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Adnan Harun Yahya

The hotel where the Turkish delegation stayed during the Lausanne negotiations

The Grand Assembly of the Turkish Republic is the government of Kurds as

much as it is Turks'. Kurds also have representatives in the Grand National
Assembly. Kurdish people and their representatives in the Assembly do not

accept the separation of their brothers in Mosul vilayet from the mainland. 367

However, Lord Curzon, in an attempt to rebut the argument of İsmet

Pasha, claimed that the Kurdish representatives at the Turkish Parliament did
not represent the Kurdish people, that they had been appointed by Mustafa
Kemal, did not have rights to representation and even implied that their elec-

tion was dubious: 'As to the Kurdish representatives of Ankara, I ask myself

how they were elected'. 368

Yusuf Ziya Bey, who was a Kurdish MP representing Bitlis, gave the per-
fect answer to this allegation during his speech at the Parliament on January

25, 1923:

Apparently, our delegates in Lausanne didn't give the necessary answer to
these accusations. We are the true representatives of the Kurdish lands, and

we are here not by appointment, but by election. We took part in the elections
under no pressure. If Kurdish people wanted separation, they wouldn't have