Before World War I, traditional Kurdish life was nomadic, revolving around sheep and goat herding throughout the Mesopotamian plains and highlands of Turkey and Iran. Today, the Kurds still do not have a place where to live comfortably, and as time passes by and nobody does anything the Kurds will get tired and a revolution could happen. It is very important that the Middle East countries such as Iraq, Iran, Syria, and Turkey arrive to an agreement, so that the Kurds are respected and honored not as an ethnic group but as human beings. But that does not give them the right to kill innocent people and becoming terrorists instead of trying to arrive to a solution as reasonable people.
The PKK has been the strongest Kurdish revolutionary organization for several years. With their cultural identity under oppression and the
In my opinion, terrorism must be stopped, but if we want it to stop, we have to find a way in which both sides agree. In all parts of Kurdistan, the existence and rights of the Kurdish people must be respected in order to live in peace. The question of the unity of the Kurdish nation is a question of the future. I believe that the Middle East region will experience great changes in the future, as other regions have done. The cruel, oppressive, and primitive regimes of today will go, relations between the peoples of the region will improve, and artificial borders, which today divide Kurdistan will then also disappear. So I encourage people to think about the kind of world in which they prefer to live. It is time to put some effort and try to get to reasonable solutions in which everybody agrees.