Sheikh Ubeydullah;
“What is this I hear, that the Armenians are going to have an independent state in
Van, and that the Nestorians are going to hoist the British flag and declare themselves
British subjects? I will never permit it, even if | have to arm the women”
Haji Qadir Koyi’s poetry reflected an early Kurdish national consciousness and suggests that Kurdish nationalism emerged partly as a reaction to Armenian nationalism rather than opposition to the Ottoman state.