Can a Kurdistan stabilize the Middle East?

[poiuytrewq0987]

It seems to me that a powerful, actually secular (unlike Turkey and its latent Islamism) Kurdish republic in the middle of the Middle East can help stabilize the region. A Kurdistan would have 392,000 km of territory and a population of nearly 30 million so they'd be a very significant force. It also helps that their armies are far more effective than Syrian and Iraqi forces.

[poiuytrewq0987]

[aksakallicocuk]

They are very tribal and diverse. Currently seperatism unifies them but they will start to kill each other in 5 years after independence.

[aksakallicocuk]

Thats far too big.

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[Kamal900]

I think Armenia should take its former lands back in eastern Turkey AKA western Armenia.

[Shah-Jehan]

I think people should just enjoy life.

[Musso]

A independent Kurdistan would greatly change the balance of power in the ME. It would weaken Turkey to a great degree, and strengthen Israel. It would also be a safe haven for Christians of the ME.

[gültekin]

It seems to me that a powerful, actually secular (unlike Turkey and its latent Islamism) Kurdish republic in the middle of the Middle East can help stabilize the region. A Kurdistan would have 392,000 km of territory and a population of nearly 30 million so they'd be a very significant force. It also helps that their armies are far more effective than Syrian and Iraqi forces.

in which parallel universe ?
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In the case of FGM, the Iraqi-German nongovernmental organization WADI estimates that around 72% of adult women in Iraqi Kurdistan have undergone the operation.

http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/orig...#ixzz3XvpNUYEU

Arbil (Iraq) | Berlin: On the occasion of the International Action Day against Female Genital Mutilation, a representative empirical study on »Female Genital Mutilation in Iraqi-Kurdistan« is going to be presented on February 6. A 40 page report summarizes the results of a one-and-a-half year empirical study conducted by the German relief organization WADI. The numbers presented in the report are alarming: A vast majority of women in Iraqi-Kurdistan have undergone FGM with some regions reaching a top ratio of more than 80 percent.
http://www.stopfgmkurdistan.org/

Berdel - a Kurdish tradition known as sister swapping and parallel weddings

http://www.theapricity.com/forum/sho...s%26%238232%3B
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In Kurdistan, a widowed woman stays with her husband's family. If she is widowed when her children are young, she is obliged to marry her deceased husband's brother. This form of marriage is called levirate. Sororate is another custom: When a man loses his wife before she bears a child or she dies leaving young children, her lineage provides another wife to the man, usually a younger sister with a lowered bride-price. Both levirate and sororate are practiced to guarantee the well being of children and ensure that any inheritance of land will stay within the family.

Read more: Kurdish Families - Kurdish Marriage Patterns - Gender, Family, History, Marriages, and Family - JRank Articles http://family.jrank.org/pages/1026/K...#ixzz3SAdKsQAT

[Profileid]

I think people should just enjoy life.

Fighting is more fun.