Constitutionalism in Kurdistan; from Chaos to Social Mobility

The present study adopts a historical-analytical approach to firstly investigate the reasons of Kurds’ unawareness and non-timely accompaniment of the constitutionalism stream and secondly explore the constitutionalism’s outcomes in Kurdistan. Alongside such predicates as the absence of great merchants and businessmen, disagreements between Kurds and Turks, absence of a laic enlightened mind class and so forth that have been so far proposed by a group of thinkers, it has to be pointed out that the Kurds were intensively worried about Iran and its future. They did not accept any political change or phenomena that could weaken the central government as the symbol of Iran’s magnificence. Therefore, Kurds’ non-accompaniment of the constitutionalism should be sought in their concerns about Iran’s future. However, it has to be stated about the outcomes of constitutionalism that the central government became incapable of fulfilling its most primary duty, i.e. supply of the public security, following the victory of the constitutionalists and this same issue added to the unrest in a vast level in regions like Kurdistan. Salar Al-Dawleh’s mutiny had a double effect on the intensification of the clashes and it caused the tribes and nomads collect more ammunition. Thus, the Kurd society was transformed into a tumult-stricken and insecure community following the establishment of constitutionalism. However, the launching of and the presence in the civil society like factions and associations as well as the participation in the polling set the ground for social and intellectual growth and blossoming in the long run.