Society for the Rise of Kurdistan

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Society for the Rise of Kurdistan (Kurdish: Cemîyeta Tealîya Kurdistanê^[1]) also known as the Society for the Advancement of Kurdistan (SAK), was secretly established in Constantinople on 6 November 1917 ^[2] and officially announced organization formed on the 17 December 1918.^[3][4] It was headquartered in Istanbul, with the aim of creating an independent Kurdish state in eastern Turkey.^[5] The Society based its statements for an independent or autonomous Kurdistan on the Treaty of Sèvres and the Fourteen Points stipulated by Woodrow Wilson.^[6] The society formed many local dependencies in the eastern provinces of Turkey.^[6]