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Old 10-17-2017, 06:09   #11
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Originally Posted by Pineapples View Post
So after some more reading last night and this morning, it seems that Kurdistan had several opportunities to actually become an independent nation, but due to a constant disagreement and lack of trust amongst their own leaders they were never able to get it done. Talks failed during the Paris peace conference around 1920, and now they're still failing to reach agreement on forming an independent Kurdistan due to internal quarrels between the three leaders of the autonomous region who believe the others are more interested in power for themselves rather than a forming a unified Kurdistan.....
So do you blame all this on the Kurds - or the three counties that the Kurds think are occupying their land?

A Kurdish nation would have been land locked and surrounded by hostile nations.
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