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    The Kurds are considered a stateless nation for the following reasons: 1. After World War I, the Treaty of Sevres proposed a Kurdish state but it was not implemented. 2. The subsequent Treaty of Lausanne established the modern borders of Turkey without a Kurdish state and left Kurds with minority status. 3. Any attempts by Kurds to establish an independent state since then have been forcibly suppressed. The Kurds want their own state to have self-governance and self-determination after being denied a homeland for so long. In northern Syria, the Kurds fought ISIS and helped the US-led coalition retake territory, establishing

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    The Kurds are considered a stateless nation for the following reasons: 1. After World War I, the Treaty of Sevres proposed a Kurdish state but it was not implemented. 2. The subsequent Treaty of Lausanne established the modern borders of Turkey without a Kurdish state and left Kurds with minority status. 3. Any attempts by Kurds to establish an independent state since then have been forcibly suppressed. The Kurds want their own state to have self-governance and self-determination after being denied a homeland for so long. In northern Syria, the Kurds fought ISIS and helped the US-led coalition retake territory, establishing

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    The Kurds are considered a stateless nation for the following reasons: 1. After World War I, the Treaty of Sevres proposed a Kurdish state but it was not implemented. 2. The subsequent Treaty of Lausanne established the modern borders of Turkey without a Kurdish state and left Kurds with minority status. 3. Any attempts by Kurds to establish an independent state since then have been forcibly suppressed. The Kurds want their own state to have self-governance and self-determination after being denied a homeland for so long. In northern Syria, the Kurds fought ISIS and helped the US-led coalition retake territory, establishing

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    Kurdistan-Stateless Nation

    https://safeshare.tv/x/ss63fca38433e8e

    Read the article: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-29702440

    Read Pages 434-435 in the textbook (text is included at the below) and answer
    questions that follow:

    1. Why are the Kurds considered a stateless nation?


    Stateless people are members of groups who for whichever reason don't have a state of their own.
    Throughout most of history, Jews and Romani were stateless. They lived in other people's countries,
    often without enjoying full citizenship, and had to follow their laws and policies, even if they were
    against their interest.

    In the early 20th Century, many Kurds began to consider the creation of a homeland - generally
    referred to as "Kurdistan". After World War One and the defeat of the Ottoman Empire, the victorious
    Western allies made provision for a Kurdish state in the 1920 Treaty of Sevres.
    Such hopes were dashed three years later, however, when the Treaty of Lausanne, which set the
    boundaries of modern Turkey, made no provision for a Kurdish state and left Kurds with minority
    status in their respective countries. Over the next 80 years, any move by Kurds to set up an
    independent state was brutally quashed.

    2. Why do the Kurds want their own state?


    3. What process have the Kurds made toward achieving the goal of an
    autonomous nation-state?

    Problem
    Who? What? Why?

    In September 2014, IS launched an They wanted to take over


    Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) assault on the enclave around the their territory.
    northern Syrian Kurdish town of
    Kobane, forcing tens of thousands of
    people to flee across the nearby
    Turkish border. Despite the proximity
    of the fighting, Turkey refused to
    attack IS positions or allow Turkish
    Kurds to cross to defend it.
    Attempts to Solve Solution

    The Kurds - fighting alongside several local Arab militias under the banner of
    the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) alliance, and helped by US-led coalition
    air strikes, weapons and advisers - then steadily drove IS out of tens of
    thousands of square kilometres of territory in north-eastern Syria and
    established control over a large stretch of the border with Turkey.

    Proposed Solution

    In October 2019, US troops pulled back from the border with Turkey after the
    country's president said it was about to launch an operation to set up a 32km
    (20-mile) deep "safe zone" clear of YPG fighters and resettle up to 2 million
    Syrian refugees there. The SDF said it had been "stabbed in the back" by the
    US and warned that the offensive might reverse the defeat of IS, the fight
    against which it said it could no longer prioritise.
    Turkish troops and allied Syrian rebels made steady gains in the first few days
    of the operation. In response, the SDF turned to the Syrian government for help
    and reached a deal for the Syrian army to deploy along the border.
    The Syrian government has vowed to take back control of all of Syria.

    Map of “proposed solution”


    Wrap-up:
    Why and how did you come to your proposed solution when determining what to do
    about Kurdistan?
    Textbook Reading

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