The Kurds have been screwed over by everyone for centuries, especially by the Brits following the First World War. They were supposed to have a country called Kurdistan, but politics divided the Kurds up among the Turks, the Syrians, the Iranians, and the Iraqis. (Actually, it was in large part to create Iraq, which was cut out of whole cloth from the Ottoman Empire.)
They now number 30 million (more than the population of Canada, as they proudly point out on their website Kurdistan, the Other Iraq), and still harbor dreams of Kurdistan.
Keep an eye on them when the whole dubious concept that is Iraq starts to come apart. They could threaten the entire fiction that is the map of the Middle East if they try and take back their ancestral land from Turkey, Syria, and Iran.
But someone should tell them about the Other White Meat campaign. References to pigs don't sell well in Muslim countries...
17 September 2006
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