Better to Leave Kurdish Nationalism Alone

It is about time for the Western powers to stop dictating Kurds. It is about time to leave Kurdish nationalism alone! Kurdish nation will seek its destiny on its own and in due course. It will promptly find a rightful place in history.

Kurds never listened to the Westerners until 1925. That is two years after the modern Republic of Turkey was founded out of the ashes of the Ottoman Empire.

By then, the empire was already dismembered and forty-five newly found states had declared independence. There was no Kurdish state among them.

Some Kurds today may surely believe that they missed the boat then. That also explains how a Kurdish intelligentsia came into being soon after. Now the fight was no longer against a decaying and dismembering empire of the 19th century but realities of the 20th.

The integrity of Iran, Iraq, Turkey, and Syria where 90 percent of the Kurds lived was now at stake. Plus, there was the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the bipolar world to consider.

The tag of war between the US and the European Union was also a factor. In short, carving a nation-state was simply not realistic or possible anymore. Read More