The economic situation of Kurdistan during the First World War (Grain hoarding and crisis)

With the start of the First World War and the entry of the Ottomans into the battlefield, the scope of the war was also extended to Kurdistan. The presence of the armies of the warring governments in Kurdistan, the personal interests of the local rulers by hoarding grains caused a grain the crisis in Kurdistan and social consequences such as poverty, hunger, corruption, prostitution, in the migration of people from cities and the destruction of villages followed.

Research method/approach: 

The current research is based on historical sources, such as books, documents and press, using a descriptive-analytical approach.

To investigate the grain hoarding and crisis in Kurdistan, the activities and performance of local rulers in the First World War.

The presence of the forces involved in the First World War in Kurdistan has disturbed the economic order of the region, the provision of food for these forces from local products, the decrease in the essential food of the people, as well as the hoarding of grains by the owners, the negative and inappropriate performance of the local rulers, and in addition to the problems and the many problems caused by the military forces involved in the war in the Kurdistan region due to their own benefit and the survival of their power have become a factor for increasing the economic and social damage of the region and finally led to hoarding and grain crisis in Kurdistan and caused poverty, hunger, famine and other unfortunate repercussions in Kurdistan.