As is the case for the poor, the Kurds will always be with us.
The desire for national statehood by peoples has been a driving historical force that created much of modern Europe. President Woodrow Wilson at the Versailles Conference noted the desire for national sovereignty by ethnic/racial/linguistic groups. And thus the misguided “Balkanization” of good portions of the Middle East and Africa with artificial national boundaries as the consequence.
Nevertheless, there have been other instances where a coherent “nation”/“people” have not become a state. And the subsequent, somewhat snide comment that “every little linguistic group doesn’t need its own state.”
