If you went and bought into a Kurd Republic....it’d just fracture itself in ten years with various political groups on agendas, and you’d have an Assad-like nation on the verge of another civil war. I do agree...it is a ethnic group in search of one single nation.
There is an argument which goes on about the true population of the Kurds. Some say 30 million total exist in the world...some say 45 million. The bulk of what exists...are in four countries (Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Syria)...probably amounting to 90-percent of Kurds. The other ten-percent sit in approximately forty countries around the world. Even if a Kurd Republic came to exist....a lot of those Kurds would not likely return and be part of this new deal.
There’s a fair amount of chat that almost half of the world Kurd population sits in Turkey....which is one reason why Erdogan is antsy about this republic talk. He’s not about to have some nation-state start up, and then 20 million Kurds in his country talk about taking a quarter of Turkey over to the Kurdish Republic.
If you went and bought into a Kurd Republic....it’d just fracture itself in ten years with various political groups on agendas, and you’d have an Assad-like nation on the verge of another civil war.
Whereas the Kurdish people have been fighting for self-determination for probably a thousand years. I suspect they will hang together reasonably well, especially given that they are literally surrounded by mortal enemies. And if Uncle Sam is the sponsoring nation, Kurdistan will be democratic, and the Kurds in that entity will have to channel their rivalries via the ballot box. Middle Easterners aren’t the most together people in the world, but they’re not sub-Saharan Africans.