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Kurds have an independent country, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraqi_Kurdistan https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraqi_Kurdistan In this day and age, seperat
by tuvan 7y ago
Kurds have an independent country, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraqi_Kurdistan https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraqi_Kurdistan
In this day and age, seperatist referandums are just dreams. Kurdistan Kurds had a referandum to declare complete independence from Iraq with 90%+ in favor of independance but they couldn’t make that recognized by international parties, even with Iraq having no practical government. And we saw what happened when Catalans attempted the same thing.
Though considering the elections in April Erdogans party got more votes in south eastern Turkey than pro PKK HDP. It is very easy to see that Kurds prefer Erdogan over PKK.
- chr1 7y agoKurds have independent country only on part of their historic territory. Turkey being independent didn't hinder turks to take half of Cyprus where Turks were not even majority, unlike the territory claimed by Kurds, where Kurds are majority because Turkey was too effective in getting rid of Armenians and Assyrians. You are correct that existing states are very reluctant to recognize new countries, but my point is that a mere glimmer of hope is enough so significantly reduce terrorism like it with Basque country for instance. > Though considering the elections in April Erdogans party got more votes in south eastern Turkey than pro PKK HDP. It is very easy to see that Kurds prefer Erdogan over PKK. That or maybe people with guns supporting Erdoghans party were effective https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Turkish_local_elections#Violence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Turkish_local_elections#V...