Who are the Kurds? What do they want? And why does nobody want to give it to them?

They are the fourth largest ethnic group in the Middle East, but they never obtained a permanent nation-state.

Around 35 million Kurdish reside in the mountainous regions located at the borders of Turkey, Iraq, Syria, Iran, and Armenia.

During the rise of the Ottoman empire, the Kurds were promised a separate homeland. When the borders of modern Turkey and its neighbours were drawn there was no more talk of an independent Kurdistan.

The thought of a free Kurdistan, can be worrying, will there ever be an independent state?

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