Quote Originally Posted by Taffy_is_a_Taff
Kagemusha: I guess the reason the Kurds are unlikely to get their own free state at the moment is basically the same reason that the Basques didn't get their own state at the end of Franco's reign. The powers that be wanted to avoid upsetting a much wider group of ethnicities and states.

I do not know if that is quite right but it sounds about there.

Free Basque country = angry Spaniards, angry French, jealous Bretons, jealous Scots, jealous Welsh, jealous northern Italians, angry English people (because so many of them take offence when non-English U.K. natives profess their unEnglishness), angry southern Italians for making the north all uppity. Or they could just disappoint the Basques.

You could probably make similar predictions about the repercussions of a mini Kurdish state being established.
You know there are more Kurds then Finnish people.Our forefathers took our independancy by force.And economically speaking.If you look how Northern countries like Sweden,Norway and Finland are doing you should also think that small can be beatiful too.