how much do you know about Kurds ?

[rickers]

Kurdish kids of today.


This photo of Jewish Kurds was taken in 1905.

[goodman2]

I do know that Kurds are caucasian just for reference and I always try to be kind.

[gokcek50]

I know that there are some genius people out there among Kurds who is still having dreams about a free Kurdish country instead of thinking about Kurd's future in Turkey, Iran, Iraq. Almost all of them live in poor regions with very low living standards. In the past Kurds were really treated badly by the governments of those three countries.

In 1980, there was a coup and military banned speaking Kurdish. In fact Turkish military supports the conflict between Kurds and Turks, so it can control the country by nationalism.

Yeah, I live in Turkey and i am Turkish but who gives a **** about our state-government. My older sister couldnt finish college because our great and proud Turkish state-government thought wearing a headscarf in campus is against laws and secularism.

It is illegal to learn anything in mosques until you are 12.You can drink or have sex but you cant pray if you work as a military or justice officer. And it is almost illegal being a member of a religious group or a cult. So even you live in your own country, you are not free. So what is the point of having your own country then.

But now things are changing, new government is tring to rebuild peace again, letting Kurdish language in schools, in TV, in radio, in Newspapers, punishing officers who killed innocent Kurdish civillians.And let me tell you something, these are not easy actions. You gotta be really brave, they just caught some officers planing to assassinate the prime minister. Military, media, nationalist groups are threatening government.

Thanks to those nationalist Kurdish geniuses, the government is loosing its power and military takes more support everyday.

So you see how things work here, people are using both nationalist group against each other so they can have the power over this land...

[CMDallas]

Originally Posted by goodman2

I do know that Kurds are caucasian just for reference and I always try to be kind.

Actually Arabs also as a whole are sort of Caucasian looking.

I know they want their own independent state. And that they threw the "No drinking" part of the Quaran out of their culture, and are famous for their heavy hand in Alcohol.
I know they subside in the Northern part of Iraq, eastern Turkey, and western Iran.
I'm fairly sure they're pro-west, as a group.
I am opposed to a Kurddish state though, it would equate to a unstable Iraq. This would not be good, as I think Iraq has the potential to be the paragon of the Arab world.
I can't remember what I heard exactly, but the Arabs are really far behind economically.
The Finnish, a country of 6 million (the size of Dallas-Fort Worth), are economically stronger then much of the the Arab World. I read something like that somewhere.