[MossadConspiracy]

Originally Posted by Arabesque

With due respect to all you guys, I don't see why a good Kurd is necessarily a Kurd who doesn't want an independent Kurdistan. If I were a Kurd, I'd want an independent Kurdistan, too. We're not living in the days of khilafa, and every other sub-nation today has an independent state in the region. Look at Gulf Arabs, for instance. We didn't need to have 7 countries (this includes the Arab part of Iraq). We could have easily been one large country. Our dialects are very similar, and the slight variations are trivial.

The Kurds, on the other hand, are a distinct race. They have their own culture, their own cuisine and - most importantly - their own language. If they want to be communists, by all means! It's their choice. If Turkey wants to be secular; it's Turkey's choice. Let's not impose our collective views on others. I'm sure there are Kurds who don't want to live under communist rule, but that is for them to figure out. For that, they'll need their own country and a multi-party political system.

Let's imagine a different scenario with Turks being the scattered community (race/language) living in Kurdistan and other countries in the region. Wouldn't the Turks want their own country? After all, they have their own history to teach. They have their own language to celebrate. Even if they were granted equal rights (which can never happen), they'd still feel left behind. Everybody else has a state. Why not them?

As an Arab, I could easily be nationalistic about this and object to the secession of Kurdistan from Iraq. But there's no need to be. Just because the PKK are active and violent, that doesn't mean they're going to be the future of Kurdistan. To say that we'd then have to deal with a violent neighbour is just a lame excuse.

I hope we all try to empathise with the Kurds. No matter what, living as a restricted minority is not really nice.

Turkey has always been uncomfortable with the national aspirations of their subjects, they just dont have too many subjects left