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kleinbl00  ·  3204 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Turkish PM confirms shelling of Kurdish forces in Syria

Mountain people are never easily ruled by plains people. Historically speaking, mountain people rush in from the mountains, conquer the plains where living is easier, grow fat and lazy and are conquered by the next wave of mountain people.

The Ottomans had an uneasy grasp on the Kurds. Then when the Ottomans got blown out, Attaturk resorted to genocide to keep them in line. Ethnically, Turks are plains people that happen to govern a mountainous region full of Kurds. Take away Sykes-Picot and the machinations of Attaturk and Kurdistan comprises a big chunk of Turkey. That chunk, right now, has its fair share of Kurdish separatists.

You give Kurds their own country and Turkey goes on a major weight loss program. Period.