Chapter XXI. Hashemite Kingdoms

The Turkmen of Iraq are the descendants of Turkish immigrants who came to Mesopotamia over the course of several historical eras, both before and after the founding of the Ottoman Empire. Even though they now reside in one of the countries that make up the Arab world as a consequence of the Ottoman Empire’s fall and the division of the Arab world, they nonetheless maintain their Turkish identity.

One of the northern regions of Iraq, where they reside, is Kirkuk, one of God’s heavens on earth, and it is home to the Kurdish race, one of Iraq’s various ethnic groups.

In 1958 AD, a military coup took place in Iraq, as a result of which the legitimate monarchy was overthrown.

In contrast to what happened in Egypt many years ago, Iraq and blood have a profound and interdependent relationship. They and Blood are both in love.

The Iraqi soldiers simply refused to leave them when the putschists besieged the royal palace, despite the fact that the young monarch and every member of his family swiftly submitted and left their positions in order to stop the slaughter and save the nation.

Every member of the royal family was murdered there and dragged through the streets in the most horrifying ways; rumors claim that some of them had their feet tied to trucks, which were then driven in opposite directions, splitting them down the middle

18-year-old King Faisal left the palace carrying the Holy Qur’an above his head, using it as a point of contention with the revolutionaries and pleading with God to mediate between them. However, it appears that the young king was unaware of the treachery, murder, and destruction that had characterized the history of his kingdom.

The entire region is entering a new era. After the Ottoman Empire, it will not be the same as it was before it. Monarchy regimes were established, and the military soon turned against them, with the support of Gamal Abdel Nasser in Egypt. Then, following his approach, the military began to turn against each other.

To take over the reins of power, and lead the entire Arab world to destruction, ruin, backwardness and ignorance that their entire history has not known, since the establishment of the first Islamic caliphate more than fourteen centuries ago.

Sardar, a fifteen-year-old Turkmen boy of Turkish descent, is two years younger than his older sibling.

He and his brother share a unique quality that sets them apart from many of the Turkmen in their community. This quality is their adoration and love for the Arabic language, which they have absorbed since they were young. They come from a family of poets who treat poetry like play dough.

News came from Baghdad, a military coup against the king.

Iraq entered a dark tunnel, an era preceded by Egypt, and it seems that the situation will not be better than it is there, tyranny, oppression and killing, suppression of freedoms, destruction of capabilities, sabotage of the country, plundering of wealth, a lot of poverty, and many slogans.

Sardar adopted his own strategy, one that was radical, zealous, impetuous, and unafraid of challenges. The words that poured out of his mouth served as his weapon. He sided with the monarchy and opposed the coup. He published poetry he had written, satirizing the military, among the populace.

Some of his poems were written in praise of the relative of the murdered King Faisal in Iraq, his cousin, the young Hashemite King Hussein bin Talal, king of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, the neighboring country to the west, the last kingdom of the Hashemite family.

He and King Faisal shared a kinship and friendship, and there are no indications of betrayal or treachery on the part of the Jordanian people or their military toward their beloved king, who granted his people a wide range of freedoms, rights, and mutual trust, just like the other Arab kings, before the military took those things away from them.

After the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, a number of kingdoms were established, in Syria, Iraq, Jordan and Palestine, led by kings from the descendants of the Hashemites, the tribe of the Prophet of Islam Muhammad.

Due to the French’s betrayal and violation of the agreements reached between them and the Hashemites, they already lost Syria. After World War I, they rapidly captured Syria, but Iraq, Jordan, and eastern Palestine, including East Jerusalem, or what is known as the West Bank, remained of Jordan, and collectively they may serve as the foundation for the creation of a new empire. Empires overpowering other empires is how governments start, and no one can predict what will happen tomorrow.

Sardar saw this, believed that modern Turkey should overcome its problems with the Hashemites, and the war that took place between them years ago, following an Arab revolution that started from southern Jordan, with which the Hashemites expelled the Ottoman Empire from the Levant and Iraq, and then took control of it,

Sardar saw that overcoming what happened was very important, in order to converge and support the nucleus of a strong state that brought together the Levant and Mesopotamia. However, Turkey, after the Ottomans, has moved on its path towards secularism, very far from its ancient past and ancient glory.

He believes that even though the Ottoman Empire has fallen apart, it is still not too late because this vast Hashemite-ruled kingdom is steadily constructing powerful states that, while they may not be able to replace the empire, will at least prevent it from turning into a graveyard of oppression, death, and destruction.

Furthermore, Syria is not in a better situation; the military turns against one another while they consume food and drink, while Gamal Abdel Nasser used iron and fire to extend his control over the people of Egypt. It doesn’t take much insight or intelligence to predict what will happen to Iraq; it won’t be any better here than it is there!

He saw that hope is in the Hashemite kingdoms, this hope that did not end at the hands of Britain or the West in a direct way, but rather at the hands of the military themselves, the people of the country, in their ambitions and dreams towards power, these ambitions that the West is perhaps not innocent of fueling, Sardar accused Britain of manipulating the putschists to weaken the countries of the region at the expense of establishing and strengthening the State of Israel.

Despite his young age, he became aware of the danger of the military and their malicious intentions. His words could no longer bear to be kept inside his chest.

An enthusiastic young man, he wrote poems praising the Jordanian King, Al-Hussein bin Talal, to tease the putschists in Iraq:

Aman’s usury is high like pearls and has spread like a ray of light, enslaving the beholders,

when its luscious perfume was borne away by the breeze, its melancholy shivered the air’s secrets as they molder,

you hazardous travelers, you nomads without a home or host in the middle of the world on the way’s shoulder,

who rush to an unreliable mirage and those who bow at every proponent of doubt with a mind of a boulder,

surround the Ancient House since it is the balsam of safety and the guardian of hope in adversity,

Since infancy, Hashem, a master in the woods, has triumphed against challenges and tensity,

throughout history, heroes have seldom ever been spared; most of these stories are falsity,

if a wound bleeds in Palestine or a shattered shield comes to light in Baghdad,

or else the sword of Arabism happens to lose its sharpness, the spirit of Amman is a roaring fire to an extent that is truly bad,

the ship’s captain, for glory, it is sailing straight ahead without turning or pausing. When there is injustice, firm, you stand,

May God perpetuate you and your deeds, a fountain of glory gushed forth by the hand of fate, for goodness to add.

Throughout history, oppressors have always been plagued by these words.

Soon after, the Revolutionary Command Council in Baghdad received his poetry accusing him of treachery and collusion. He was now wanted for arrest or execution.

Sardar, the Turkman, managed to flee to Turkey, and then to Jordan, where he could start a new life. He was prevented from entering Iraq, haunted by shame, a traitor to the struggling leader, and to the Revolutionary Command Council, which now owns Iraq, including its inhabitants.

Separated from his family and his brother, whom he may not see for a long time, this is his destiny, as is the destiny of many who exercised their right to speak, in the new Arab world.

His poems, his devotion to the betrayed king, and to the kings of the Hashemite family, his thoughts on the need to coexist with the post-imperial monarchy era, what he suffered as a result, is enough to be a citizen of a new state. They welcomed him in Jordan, generous people, and a beloved king, and he quickly acquired Jordanian citizenship.

He worked hard and established a commercial company to sell clothes. The work is good and brings him a lot of money.  The aspirational young man made the decision to work in exporting. In Libya, where the monarchy still maintains stability, he will establish a branch. He will export merchandise there and sell it for a higher profit.

In 1968 AD, he moved to open a branch in Libya, things are going well, and after one year, a military coup there, supported by Gamal Abdel Nasser as well, overthrew the government of King Idris while he was on a medical trip to Turkey, a coup led by Muammar Gaddafi.

Let Libya, in turn, begin its long journey of destruction, which was preceded by many countries in the Arab world.

Many Egyptian paper newspapers, sold in Libya, broadcast the thought of the new leader of the Arab world, its inspiration, and its leader towards alleged glory, Gamal Abdel Nasser, who starved the people of Egypt, destroyed its institutions, consumed its resources, and supported coups and similar regimes in other Arab countries, in order to strengthen their armies, according to him.

In ironic fashion, one year ago, he lost the Palestinian Gaza Strip, the entire Egyptian province of Sinai all the way to the Suez Canal on the outskirts of Cairo.

Because of him, Syria lost the strategic Golan Mountains.

Jordan lost the entire West Bank, including East Jerusalem.

The Arabs lost the 1967 war, thanks to Gamal Abdel Nasser’s helplessness, his insistence on managing the battle, as he had previously crowned himself leader of the new Arab world. They were all defeated by the smallest country in the region, Israel.

At that time, the Jews almost entered Cairo itself and occupied all of Egypt, had it not been satisfied for what they had achieved.

Why did you demolish our institutions and starve us to death?

What made you decimate Egypt and overthrow its monarchy?

Why did you back so many coups attempt in the Arab world?

Why did you flee in fear before it like terrified rats if you and your armies and weapons are incapable of defending yourselves from the smallest, most recent state to emerge in the area, Israel, about which you have long claimed that all your actions of oppression, killing, and terrorizing your people are nothing but preparations to eliminate it?

Other than the obnoxious statements and slogans that the public typically finds appealing, there are no answers.

What happened in the 1967 war will sum up the state of the Arab world between kingdoms and military republics. A second war in 1968, between Jordan and Israel, did not involve Gamal Abdel Nasser, nor did the revolutionaries’ republics intervene. People’s feelings were not manipulated by resounding slogans and the dreams of children who are now ruling countries, the Israeli army suffered its first defeat since its founding, as the Jordanian army single-handedly defeated the army that defeated all the revolutionaries’ republics one year ago.

Sardar celebrated the victory by handing out candy that day throughout Tripoli, the capital of Libya, in every street and suburb.

Not only that, but Gamal Abdel Nasser supports an officer from a sect of an outcast minority in Syria, whose grandfathers dealt with the French occupation, against the Syrian people, Hafez al-Assad, a tyrannical butcher, a murderer, whom he will enable to control the necks of the entire Syrian people, and lead them to destruction and devastation that they have not witnessed throughout all their ages.

Syria is no longer the stronghold and impenetrable bulwark of the entire Islamic world for the first time in history. Rather, it is heading toward its authoritarian military regime, led by Hafez al-Assad; To be a thorn in its side.