Think about what the Kurds are saying. Ask your Kurdish friends the following questions. First, what are the final borders of Greater Kurdistan? Who decides, how is this decision made, and when will this decision be made?

The Kurdish minorities of the Middle East demand their own autonomous states with the right of full self determination in Iraq, Turkey, and Syria. Why does the Kurdish Regional Government deny the same rights to the ethnic minorities in Iraqi Kurdistan?

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad now says that Iraq’s partition by Kurds and Iranians would “blow up” the Middle East. Is Assad wrong?Does Iran approve of Kurdish policies of partitioning Iraq, Turkey and Syria?

According to Kurdish logic, is the USA -- like Turkey -- an illegitimate state because of its suppression of the Indian tribes? Can Native Americans be compared to the Kurds in Turkey? What about US suppression of Latino-Americans and African-Americans? Is this like Turkish suppression of the Kurds?

During the 1930’s a faction of the US Communist party asserted that US African-Americans constituted a separate nation in the so-called rural black belt in the deep South. By a strong majority the US Communist Party rejected this ultra-leftist and separatist view of African-Americans as a separate nation in the US. Do the Kurds approve of African-American political separatism in the US?

Do the Kurds approve of full self-determination from China for Taiwan and Tibet? If not, provide a rationale as to why the Taiwanese and Tibetans are any different from the Kurds.

Finally, ask your Kurdish friends to provide a list of illegitimate states (China, Russia, France, Spain, and most of the Latin American states) and a list of their replacements (Basques, Incas, Chechens, Kosovars, etc.).