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When The Grandma arrived to Istanbul, some days ago, she didn't avoid to think in the last events in that country, especially, the constant and eternal suffering of a community who lives there and demands its recognition and respect towards its culture, the Kurds.
Kurdistan, Homeland of the Kurds or Land of the Kurds also formerly spelled Curdistan; ancient name: Corduene or Greater Kurdistan, is a roughly defined geo-cultural region wherein the Kurdish people form a prominent majority population,and Kurdish culture, language, and national identity have historically been based. Kurdistan roughly encompasses the northwestern Zagros and the eastern Taurus mountain ranges.
More information: Who are the Kurds? - BBC
Contemporary use of the term refers to four parts of Kurdistan, which include southeastern Turkey (Northern Kurdistan), northern Syria (Rojava or Western Kurdistan), northern Iraq (Southern Kurdistan), and northwestern Iran (Eastern Kurdistan). Some Kurdish nationalist organizations seek to create an independent nation state consisting of some or all of these areas with a Kurdish majority, while others campaign for greater autonomy within the existing national boundaries.
Iraqi Kurdistan first gained autonomous status in a 1970 agreement with the Iraqi government, and its status was re-confirmed as an autonomous entity within the federal Iraqi republic in 2005. There is a province by the name Kurdistan in Iran; it is not self-ruled. Kurds fighting in the Syrian Civil War were able to take control of large sections of northern Syria. Having established their own government, they called for autonomy in a federal Syria after the war.
Self-determination could mean independence, confederacy,
federal and autonomy.
Jalal Talabani
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