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Kurdistan was nipped in the bud in 1923.

Map of Kurdistan (derived from Central Intelligence Agency map dated 1986)


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurdistan#Modern_history

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After the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, the Allies contrived to split Kurdistan (as detailed in the ultimately unratified Treaty of Sèvres) among several countries, including Kurdistan, Armenia and others. However, the reconquest of these areas by the forces of Kemal Atatürk (and other pressing issues) caused the Allies to accept the renegotiated Treaty of Lausanne (1923) and the borders of the modern Republic of Turkey, leaving the Kurds without a self-ruled region. Other Kurdish areas were assigned to the new British and French mandated states of Iraq and Syria.

Now in 2018 the balance of power is still very unfavorable for the Kurdish people, so what would be the point of trying to create a Kurdish state, being beaten again and again by their powerful neighbours?