Reply #38: The Kurds are an ancient people who have suffered terribly

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as a minority - as have MOST minorities in the Middle East.

I had a Persian friend who worked with them, some of the nomadic Kurds in the mountainous regions of Iran. They're interesting people, incredibly talented weavers. Other Kurds - also weavers - live in Iranian villages. Still others, nomadic and otherwise, live in the Caucausus region, some in Turkey. They have no place to call their own.

I fail to see why the idea of a Kurdish homeland is so upsetting to people. As it is, they are involved in violent clashes in Turkey and have been horribly persecuted in Iraq.