If Kurdistan became an independent country, it would take a bite out of not only Syria, but also Turkey, Iraq, Iran, and Azerbaijan, and be a most excellent buffer state, as they are fiercely xenophobic, despising Armenians, Turks, Farsi, Arabs and Alawites with the vehemence normally reserved by most Muslims for the Jewish people.
The Kurds have certainly suffered at the hands of their neighbors for the last three or four millennia. A sort of cross between Turkic and Arabic people, with an admixture of Mongols from Genghis Khan’s Golden Horde, they were once at the same level among other Islamic people as the “Palestinians” today. Outcast from other lands, they are subjugated as foreigners within the boundaries of the place of their birth. But they have become most excellent oilfield workers and managers, and with this growing economic power, they are flexing their muscle.
The Kurds deserve their own nation.
Yep. When the Ottoman Empire was divided about 100 years ago -— They could not have made it any worse for the Kurds if they had tried.