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Originally Posted by octothorp
Just to play devil's advocate for a moment, the Kurdish people have been living under the Ottoman/Turkish and Iranian/Safanid empires for around 600 years, and even before that, existed only as a group of loosely allied emirates, as opposed to any sort of unified state. This isn't about returning the political boundaries to some historical configuration; it's about creating a nation that has never existed previously on any sort of political level.
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Wait, are you of the opinion that the Kurds shouldn't get an independent state because they've never had one before?