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The Kurdish question, the fate of Syria and the “greater Middle East”

The Kurds, a nation numbering tens of millions of people is, along with Palestinians, one of the most persecuted and suffering nations during all the dramatic history of the Middle East.
Their right to self-determination was denied, as happened also with Palestinians. They have suffered a ferocious repression, time and again, from local powers controlling their territories and, more indirectly, from western imperialism (supporting for example their gazing by Saddam, or the PKK leader’s kidnapping and transferring to Turkey, of services of NATO countries and probably the Israelis).

A new, democratic, stable, progressive Middle East, one of the poles of a prospective “multipolar” world, cannot come into existence if this question is not answered. But it is easier to say than to do it. And it is also possible to use a “good cause” for a larger “bad” one. The opposite is of course true. You cannot create a stable “regional order” based on “local injustices”.

Is the proper solution the creation of a new state, where now lie Turkish, Iraqi, Iranian or Syrian territory? Are federations a proper scheme or the problem can be solved just with recognition of extensive minority rights? Can Arabs, Kurds, Iranians, Turks achieve a viable compromise, denying to imperialism, colonialism and the neoconservative Architects of the Chaos, the possibility of using one nation against the other?

More: http://www.defenddemocracy.press/kurdish-question-fate-syria-greater-middle-east/