Demography rules:
Most of Turkeys military-age men will come from Kurdish-speaking families by 2040 or so, because Turkeys 20 million Kurds have twice as many children as ethnic Turks. Last year I reviewed Turkeys 2015 census data, which show the trend towards Kurdish demographic preponderance accelerating (Turkeys Demographic Winter and Erdogans Duplicity). Concentrated in Turkeys southeast, the Turkish Kurds dominate a part of the country contiguous to the Kurdish Autonomous Region of Iraq. After half a century of dirty war by the Turkish army against the Kurdish minority, Turkeys Southeast might break away to join an Iraq-centered Kurdish state.
Iran faces a demographic catastrophe over the next 20 years because the present generation of Iranians were born to families of seven children, but have only one or two children. As the present generation ages, Irans elderly depends will comprise 30% of the total, about the same as Europe, but with about a tenth the per capita GDP. Iran will be the first country to get old before it gets rich, and its economy will implode. Like Turkey, though, Iran has huge ethnic disparities in birth rates. In Tehran province, Iranian women have less than one child apiece on average, but in the restive province of Baluchistan on the Pakistani border, women have 3.7 children.
http://www.atimes.com/the-inconvenient-kurds/
Works for me. Ethnic diversity. Luv it.