raegarding your map of Kurdistan and the implicit claim therefrom , I am unaware of an intrinsic right for an ethnic group to have its own nation. Before WWI multi-ethnic states were the rule in Europe and Middle East -- for example, Austria-Hungry and Turkey. This was alo true before WW2 in eastern Europe. Post-WW2 migrations, forced and voluntary, led to more monoethnic states and ethno-nationalism. For example, Poland before the war had large populations of poles, ukrainians germans, lithuanians, belorussians. After the war, it became almost entirely Polish. I would wager that the world is not better off with moves away from multinationalism.
raegarding your map of Kurdistan and the implicit claim therefrom , I am unaware of an intrinsic right for an ethnic group to have its own nation. Before WWI multi-ethnic states were the rule in Europe and Middle East -- for example, Austria-Hungry and Turkey. This was alo true before WW2 in eastern Europe. Post-WW2 migrations, forced and voluntary, led to more monoethnic states and ethno-nationalism. For example, Poland before the war had large populations of poles, ukrainians germans, lithuanians, belorussians. After the war, it became almost entirely Polish. I would wager that the world is not better off with moves away from multinationalism.