Simply *celebrating the victory declared two days ago of the Syrian Kurdish forces in finally dislodging Sissii International from its last stronghold in Raqqa (Syria). And to suggest that the sooner this modern-day incarnation of the biblical (Old Testament) **Medo-Persians get their own state, so much the better.
As folk (i.e. the Iraqi Kurds) left in the lurch by George W's Dad, i.e. President Bush Senior (in the aftermath of the 1991 U.N.-authorized Gulf War - Desert Storm) - though they were arguably the staunchest opponents of dictator Saddam Hussein, and so were subsequently subjected to chemical bombing by him and his henchmen - I ***can't think of anyone else more deserving of their own homeland. Never welcome in Turkey, yet with a****sizeable population there, and in Iraq and Syria (and also Iran), they have every reason for a place of their own.
May it come soon - asap. All power to the Kurds/Kurdish people!
*While commiserating with them in being simultaneously repulsed in Kirkuk and across northern Iraq.
**Or rather the first of these people groups, i.e. the ancient Medes, who have been traced to the peoples now constituting the Kurds and the geographical location where the Kurds are now situated.
***Though it's a topic I write about occasionally, even just the other day (about Catalonia/ns in particular) upon my associated blogsite (http://nuffsaid:consideryourself-frombothsidesnow.blogspot.co.nz/(or .com/).
****According to some admittedly older stats, in or around 1985-1986, according to Patrick Johnstone's acclaimed Operation World, the Kurds comprised approximately 16% of the Turkish population; 18% of the Iraqi populace, which people group included the 'ethnically-cleansed' Yezidis, 4% of said total; 6% of the Syrian populace; and 8% of Iran's population.
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