[Ethan Clive Osgoode]

The Kurds have known nothing except persecution and oppression for centuries,

That's not quite true.

Assyrian Genocide

500,000 Armenians Said To Have Perished... Slaughter of Christians by Turks and Kurds.

[alloysteel]

I didn’t say the Kurds were always on the same end of persecution and oppression. It is sort of like how the English managed the problem of both the Scots and the Irish - by setting the Scots as guards over the Irish (Ulster-Scots). The Scots, themselves hounded and harried by the English, were removed from the Highlands and transplanted to Northern Ireland, where they passed on the lessons they learned so well under the English, in controlling the Irish.

The Kurds were sort of in the position of the Scots, and the Armenians were in the position of the Irish.