I very much appreciate your in depth look at the Kurds. It is perhaps the best understanding I know to have informed any article on them and the issues around them I have seen.

However, I cannot fault any people for wanting to be free from the tyranny of the states that exist in the middle east. If having a nation was a prerequisite for having a nation, there would be no nations. There has never been a Kurdistan, but I will not accede that means that Kurds must forever be minorities in Turkey, Iraq, Iran, and to a lesser extent, Syria.

As a sizable, discrete population, the Kurds have been political footballs long before the national boundaries of the middle east were redrawn after WWI. Today the machinations of Israel and the USA have followed that tradition.

Amongst the most remarkable thing about the Kurds, to me, is that they continue to exist, given the oppressive regimes of the nations where their territory is, and the ways every imperial power has sought to use them for it's own purposes.

Recently an author by the name Ocalan published an article (less than 50 pages) outlining a vision of how people can be independent of state powers, and not themselves create such a power.

I believe such a Kurdistan is strongly to be desired, and might serve as a model whereby all peoples oppressed by the unholy alliance of banksters, corrupt media, and military force could draw inspiration for their own voluntarist evolution, creating a world moving at long last away from the cycle of empire and collapse into feudalism.

While there are certainly laws against it, that doesn't make it wrong. Most of the laws in this world are written by the invisible hand of oligarchs seeking to increase and extend their wealth and power, from the shadows, advocated for by venal propagandists, claimed to be authored by sycophantic shills, and enforced by sadistic thugs labeled as heroes while they shatter the hopes and dreams of ordinary people just trying to live free of oppression.

It is this system of oppression that is unlawful, and such oppression will always be unlawful, even if it is legal. I therefore hope the Kurds, and all peoples everywhere, become independent of the state structures currently mining the wealth of the world and concentrating it in the coffers of oligarchs, while billions of free, sovereign people suffer poverty of dehumanizing proportions.

Thanks for adding to my understanding of the history involving the Kurds with your excellent article, even if I am unable to support your conclusion that there should be no Kurdistan, or a free Kurdish people.