The Kurds are the largest ethnic group of people who've never had their own country, why is this?
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I disagree with your analysis of an ethnic group...the Jewish people were stateless for thousands of years. \n\nGypsies, too, although they don't quite count as an ethnic group. well...they kind of do.
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Hi there. I am not related into these matters in any way, I am just an IT professional so my knowledge is very limited. Country is suffering mostly from Kurdish terrorists and some fundamentalist Muslim terrorists. As I know some of these measures are:\n\n- Aviation security. I noticed airports are more secure than it was 5-6 years ago. Surveillance cameras, tighter scanning of luggages and passengers, photos at the passport control etc.\n- Stricter control on change of addresses, money transfers, etc.\n- New photo identity cards with microchip is coming soon.\n- Stricter control on the borders of Northern Iraq and Iran.\n- Allowing Kurdish media and language schools.\n- Special security forces to tackle terrorist groups inside the country.\n- Tracking people that are frequently travelling to countries that support terror. Unfortunately there are EU member states in the list.\n- Tracking European media run by terror organisations.\n- Narcotics police is working hard on the drug trafficking issue that is the main financial source for Kurdish terrorists. I guess the fundamentalist Muslims are funded by some Middle Eastern countries run by sheria law.\n\nI am sure a lot going on this issue, but that's all from me :-)
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Probably not for at least ten years. They need to sort out their human rights issues, treatment of Kurds etc. Also military would have to be totally seperated from the state. It would give the EU some pretty dodgy borders e.g. Iraq. yes but not until it sorts itself out
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To be honest, I don't want the Shia to have a single seat in the Iraqi government, but you're right.  The only way for a democracy of any form to flurish is to have a true representation of the people.  If the Shia won seats, then they should have their elected representative in that seat.  It's what the people want if they voted for it.  \nThe Kurds deserve to be left alone however.  They have been through far too much for one group of people.  It's time for peace in the lives of the Kurds.  It's time for peace for the people of Iraq.
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i just consider about that how do u deserve having a country.first you never had a country in history.second,if we dont see my first response you dont have qualified leaders to manage on your own,because as we see in history your brain only exist on terrorism and violence.third,you dont have enough population to have a country.fourth,if you deserve a country on lands which you think yours,turkmens in north iraq deserve a country too because they are living there troughout a long history,and armenians were living on eastern turkish lands which you want to have,then they should come and establish a country on these lands,in your opinion they deserve that too.what will you do in this situation?will you have another terrorist group or other abdullah ocalans to kill armenians and turkmens.i suggest you that doesnt work.--another point in my second and third responses if you could establish a kurdish country you will be a toy of imperialist countries.--and my asker friend i think you are a kurdish because i see you have an insular mind like most kurdishes i know in turkey.you can only dreaming about waving your kurdish flag(which is designed by pkk a kurdish terrorist group) but i am sorry they dont let you to do that after having your own country.try to have a peaceful life with your turkish and turkmen brothers and sisters.this will help you.as a muslim you know that...  C* C* C* C* C*
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Short answer to a hard question to answer:\n\nThe kingdom of Israel is the ancestral homeland of the Jewish people. However, this was approximately 1200 BCE, and since that time many other nations have laid claim to the land, effectively expelling the Jewish people from the territory, scattering them among the ancient lands. Although the Jews attempted to return to Israel often, they were usually met with hostility. Over time, and until the last few centuries, Muslims were the primary inhabitants of the this region, forming the nation that would eventually be known as Palestine, though it was ruled by the Ottoman Empire until the early 20th century.\n\nWhen the British occupied the land after World War I, they encourages a movement that had been gaining popularity in Europe - the resettlement of the Jewish people in their ancient homeland. Although these mass migrations happened in waves, it caused tensions between the Jewish and Arab peoples who occupied this nation, not only due to religious and cultural differences, but to claims of land ownership. The Jewish people had not controlled land in this region for thousands of years, but were given land that had once been controlled by Arab people. Being forcably displaced from their homeland, the fighting between the Jews and Arabs escalated.\n\nDuring World War II and the rise of Nazism, the Jewish people were driven from Europe or slaughtered by the millions. After the fall of Germany, ending the war in Europe, many thousands of displaced Jewish people found themselves without a home. Thus is was decided to place them into Palestine. Hostilities between Jewish and Arab peoples in the country increased, eventually leading to the withdrawl of Great Britain from the region. \n\nIn 1947, Israel was carved out of Palestine, and given its own sovereign status. This erupted in war in region, as many Arab nations refuse to recognize the country of Israel, created, rather arbitrarily, by world powers, effectively isolating the Palestinian (Arab) occupation that had existed for over a millenia. A series of miliary conflicts and occupations of land resulted in the current tensions we hear about today.
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The Jewish people DO have a country of their own and they are not about to go away any time soon no matter how much you like or dislike them.\n\nIts sad that Palestine does not have a country of their own and have descended into violence out of frustration.  The UN declaration that gave Israel its start was also supposed to start a Palestinian state but that got obfuscated in the complex politics that ensued.
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Before the spread of Islam in the 7th century CE, the majority of Kurds practised their indigenous religions, today are referred to as Yazdanism. Yazidism and Yarsan, which may stemmed from and eventually replaced those religions are still practised among the Kurds. Most Yazidis live in Iraqi Kurdistan, in the vicinity of Mosul and Sinjar. Yazidis are also found in Syria, Armenia, Turkey, and Germany. Their holy book is "Mishefa Reş" (The Black Book)[73]. The Yarsan, or Ahl-e Haqq, religion is practised in western Iran, primarily around Kermanshah. There were also many Kurds who practised Zoroastrianism. [74]\n\nAlso before arrival of Islam in the 7th century AD there were large Kurdish populations practising Christianity, still found in small numbers especially in Iraqi Kurdistan. The Kurdish kingdom of Adiabene, including a large number of its Kurdish citizens, converted to Judaism during the 1st century BC.[75] Rabbi Asenath Barzani, who lived in Mosul from 1590 to 1670 was among the very first Jewish women to become a Rabbi.\n\n \nMalak Ta’us, the peacock angel of Yazidism religionIn the 7th century, Arabs conquered the Kurdish regions and converted the majority of Kurds to Islam. The majority of Kurds are Muslim, belonging to the Shafi school of Sunni Islam, distinguishing them in the region, (and to a much lesser degree, the Hanafi) Schools of Sunni Islam. There is also a significant minority of Kurds that are Shia Muslims, primarily living in the Ilam and Kermanshah provinces of Iran and Central Iraq ("Al-Fayliah" Kurds). The Alevis are another religious minority among the Kurds, mainly found in Turkey. There are also Kurds who are Agnostics.\n\nMost Kurds have liberal tendencies toward religion, for instance Kurdish women usually do not wear hijab, do not cover their face and this differentiate them from Arab and Iranian women
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Kurds are a tribe of people from one race.  Some Kurds are Christians and some are Muslim.     Muslim is the religion.
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I think that northern Iraq (which is mostly Kurdish) is much more peaceful and prosperous than the rest of the country. They must be doing something right.
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The Chaldeans were the last people to rule Mesopotamia.   It is the word used to describe contemporary Assyrian people associated with the Chaldean Catholic Church.  \n\nThe Assyrians are Aramaic-speaking Christians who consider themselves to be indigenous inhabitants of Mesopotamia, and inheritors of the ancient culture of Assyria.   They are the result of the merging of different cultures, including Chaldeans.\n\nThe history is complicated.  I hope this is of some help.
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Small minds that can't see that life is more important than a few square miles of scrubby desert. You see this throughout the middle east where sunnis fight shiites, Kurds fight Iraqis, Iraqis fight Kuwatis, Iranians fight Iraqis etc. etc. It is a tribal mentality that unfortunately values tribal rivalries more than life itself.  What makes a pregnant woman strap dynamite to herself and blow up a bunch of innocent bystanders?  The same pathetic mentality.
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It has more potential than any other country in the region.\n\n- Muslim illegals are mostly from Iraq and Afghanistan that are screwed up by some of the EU member states and their allies. They should be hold responsible for those unfortunate people seeking asylum. Turkey is just a passage for them, just like Greece, Italy, Austria. Do you expect Iraqis to travel to Europe through Japan or New Zealand?\n\n- Turkey has been home to many cultures that shaped today's Europe. Racially, about 1/4th of the Turks are grandchildren of Muslim Europeans who were displaced by the Christian Balkan states after WWI. They were not necessarily Turks, they were Muslims fleeing from the Christian atrocity. My grandfather is one of them, he is Romanian, and grandmother is Bosnian. They seeked asylum from Turkey, they learned the language, acquired Turkish names and became Turkish after they migrated.\n\nWhole Balkans were Turkish states for about 5-6 centuries (20-25 generations). Maybe you're not aware but Turkish culture has left a lot of traces in Europe. They didn't enforce religion onto the citizens, so we still have Christian faith on Balkans, with some Christian Turks as well.\n\nSome other facts you don't know about Turkey's potential:\n- Economy growing at about 7% vs 2.5% in EU.\n- 17th most industrialized country in the world.\n- 17th largest economy in 2006. It was the 26th in 2002, only 4 years ago.\n- Young educated population. Oversupply of engineers, doctors etc. Many work abroad as there are not enough jobs in Turkey. On the contrary many European economies depend on foreign workforce.\n- Secular democracy. No kings, no queens, no imams or monks as the head of state.\n- There are already about 5 million Turks living in Europe (not counting the 8 million in the European part of Turkey).\n- They have overcome the hyperinflation (70-100%) that screwed up the economy between 1970-2000. Now it is around 5-6%. Bad days are over.\n- 30% arable land. Arable whole year due to its climate and has enough water.\n- Strategically positioned. Energy hub to Central Asia and Middle East. Holding the 2 straits to Black Sea.\n- It is as big as France and England put together. Size matters. \n- Excellent private medical services, free public education (inc uni)\n- Healthy family & social structure. Don't have 12 year old single mothers. Doesn't have binge drinking and drug addicts.  Doesn't have high rates of divorces and single mothers. It has steadily growing population.\n- Low crime rates (lower than UK et al.)\n- Lots of natural resources, beautiful country, great food & fun loving people.\n- Many Turks will return back to her once the economy gets better... \n\nDo you really think we enjoy living in north Europe? It is all about money.
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The Kurds are Muslims.  Why would you want to sing this song to them?  Are you trying to convert them?  Forget it------they are just fine where they are.
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They come and live here because they know they can do what they want, they build mosques over here, if we built a church over there, we'd get beheaded. Like someone on the news said if war broke out between England and their birth country, they would support their birth country because it is their home.If it's their home why don't they go back?
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The term nation is often used as a synonym for ethnic group (sometimes "ethnos"), but although ethnicity is now one of the most important aspects of cultural or social identity for the members of most nations, people with the same ethnic origin may live in different nation-states and be treated as members of separate nations for that reason.\n\nIn political geography and international politics a country is a geographical territory.\n\nso in simple terms - a nation consists of people and a country is a physical location.
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Of course Muslim isn't a race or a nation.\n\nThe world's largest Muslim nation is Indonesia. Do you really think that an Indonesian considers herself to be the same race and nationality as a Nigerian? Or that a Nigerian considers himself the same race and nationality as as a Afghani?\n\nCan I ask you a question? Why would you believe that Muslim is a race? Islam is a religion. There are large Islamic populations in China, Indonesia, Malaysia, numerous sub-Saharan African nations, the USA, the UK, France and of course in western Asia and North Africa. Why would you believe that Chinese, Nigerians, Afghans, Indonesians, Turks and Belgians all consider themselves the same race and nationality just because they are all Muslims?