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The Pros And Cons Of The Kurds

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Should the Kurds be allowed to have their own sovereign nation? The Kurds are an ethnic group from the Mesopotamian Plain who currently live within five different states. They live in northern Iraq, north-western Iran, north-eastern Syria, south-western Armenia, and south-eastern Turkey. In each of these states, they are considered the minority ethnic group. They ended up in so many places because after World War I, borders were being drawn up. The defeat of the Ottoman empire left them stateless. A timeline wrote by CNN states: “In July of 1923, the Allies [Britain, France, Russia, Italy, the United States] and the former Ottoman Empire sign and ratify the Treaty of Lausanne, which recognizes Turkey as an independent nation. In the final
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