... border. This region has long been identified as being populated by a group of people calling themselves Kurdish, for hundreds of years. "Since the early 13th Century much of this area has been called Kurdistan"i, states David McDowall in his book, 'The Kurds'. An issue of further debate is the actual Kurdish population of this region. The number of people claiming to be belonging to a Kurdish people is "estimated to range between 25 to 30 million." ii Within Turkey, the Kurdish population is estimated at "10 to 12 million"iii people. Behind the Persians, Turks and Arabs, "The Kurdish population...forms the fourth largest people of the Middle east,"iv however they do not enjoy an autonomous nation-state. One of the primary conflict's with regards to the Kurdish identity is that they do not belong to an ethnic minority, nor do they share a unifying language and they are often torn ...

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