The border between Turkey and Syria — they’ve been fighting for hundreds of years, they’ve been fighting for centuries.”— Trump, interview on Sinclair media, Oct. 25“They're fighting for 1,000 years, they're fighting for centuries. Within the Ottoman empire, there were loosely defined regions where a certain ethnicity was more populous, and Kurdish people occupied one of them. Even under the Ottoman Empire, there were different dialects being spoken by people identifying as ethnically Kurdish. “The borders were very artificial for Kurds because their families were separated, their tribes were separated.”In Turkey, Kurdish populations would be heavily suppressed for decades. “After the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, Syria was under French mandate.

Source: Washington Post November 04, 2019 07:52 UTC