William K. Black
October 9, 2019 Kansas City, MO
The most betrayed people in the world are likely the Kurds. They have the misfortune to live in a particularly violent region dispersed among five nation states – Iraq, Iran, Turkey, Syria, and Armenia. They are a large ethnic group (the fourth largest in their region). They are overwhelmingly Sunni. Kurds have tried to be a nation, and the West betrayed them. Kurds have tried to develop ‘home rule’ within the nation states they inhabit, and everyone betrayed them. The majority population of each of the nation states they inhabit tends to despise Kurds as non-Arabs or fake Turks. Turkey pretends they do not exist and calls them “mountain Turks.”
