"Seems to me, if the Kurds HAD their own nation there would be no reason for the insurgents of Syria, Iran and Turkey be insurgents anymore."
Yep....
Of course, it's reasonable to assume that they just might want to establish their new nation --- ON THE LAND THAT THEIR OWN PEOPLE ARE LIVING ON RIGHT NOW. ('Iraqi Kurdistan' is just a small part of that land.)
And, right now (and, often, for decades and decades and decades if not longer) the Kurds have been living in adjoining lands in Turkey, in Iran, in Syria, and in Iraq.
So-called 'Greater Kurdistan'.
They, in many cases, have been living there since well *before* these modern states of 'Iraq' or 'Turkey' or 'Iran' were ever formed.
Back when most of the region was just part of the Ottoman Empire, the Kurds were living there.
Naturally enough, Turkey, Iran, Iraq, Syria, etc. are not all that crazy for the idea that some of their current citizens would like to see parts of their current nations carved-off and joined up into a new, larger, Kurdish nation.
(The Kurds are probably the largest ethnic group in the world today that doesn't have their own country.) |
