User:ShoaibKurdi123/sandbox

The House of Kurds is an online, mostly English-speaking community consisting of ethnic Kurds who seek to communicate and reach a common level of understanding within the same platform.

The House of Kurds was founded by Sanius on November 14, 2020, following a month-long break after the hacking and eventual dismantling of the predecessor to the House of Kurds, the Greater Kurdistan server.

Prior to the establishment and eventual formation of the proper House of Kurds, which came after a merger agreement was struck between Sanius, Shoaib and Chicho on November 17th, the Greater Kurdistan community dominated much of what was the online Kurdish English speaking community, based mostly on Discord. 

Social Media Links Related To The Community
The House of Kurds official website: https://www.houseofkurds.com/home

The invite link to the House of Kurds Discord: Community https://discord.gg/5ArR9fjt9d

History/Timeline
October 1, 2014 - The Greater Kurdistan community is originally established on Steam by Kurdayeti (would later be active on Discord as well)

October 27, 2019 - Following a dispute between Zagrosi and Kurdayeti, Zagrosi left to form his own community, which would become the newer Greater Kurdistan server on Discord

October 6, 2020 - Zagrosi’s Greater Kurdistan server was hacked and subsequently formed to disband itself. Then-leader of that server, Sanius, who succeeded Zagrosi in May 2020, also left the online Kurdish Discord community for a short break

November 14, 2020 - Sanius returns to Kurdish Discord and founded the “Kurdistan” server. After a merger with GK’s successor, led by Nice Shoes, Chicho and Shoaib on November 17, 2020, the server was renamed to House of Kurds.

Greater Kurdistan Server
The Greater Kurdistan community was founded by Zagrosi in October 2019 following a dispute between him and other GK Admin Kurdayeti, which eventually led to Zagrosi leaving and founding his own server; which was later to become Greater Kurdistan. Zagrosi eventually stepped down from leading GK in May 2020, and was succeeded by then co-owner Sanius, who took over and led the server until its disbandment in October 2020.

Establishment of The House of Kurds
On November 14, 2020, the “Kurdistan” server was founded by Sanius, with the goal of unifying Kurds online under a single large community and to encourage communication and the production of quality content. Sanius reached out to the Owners of the “Greater Kurdish Republic” (GKR) server in around November 2020, seeking to establish cooperation and to reach a level of mutual understanding regarding these matters. Within days, Shoaib and Chicho, two of the co-leaders of GKR would join Sanius’ server and help him set it up.

By November 15, talks had begun between GKR and Sanius to merge the communities into forming a new server that would seek to have the interests of all Kurds in mind. Days into negotiations, an agreement was reached and the merger would go ahead. The merger happened on November 17, 2020; and resulted in the creation of the House of Kurds community.

Between November and December of 2020, the newly formed House of Kurds Discord server, which was led by Sanius as its sole Owner and by Shoaib and Chicho as co-owners, would continue to grow and attract new members. Eventually, however, old disputes would resurface as the People of Kurdistan (POK) community, which was considered a “rival” at the time, announced in December that its members should cut ties with the House of Kurds (HOK) and leave it immediately. POK accused HOK of DM inviting their members and copying their server. HOK denied these allegations and imposed strict security measures to protect its community from being sabotaged or raided by POK. By January 2021, the drama had settled and neither POK nor HOK engaged in any activities against each other, as POK would later enter its own phase of instability with their members unhappy under its leadership.