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Subscriber Essay: The Kurdistan That Never Was
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Subscriber Essay: The Kurdistan That Never Was

Derek Davison
Nov 19, 2017
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A while back someone asked about Kurdish independence, or why the Kurds don't really have any. There are so many defined ethnicities in the world who don't have their own nation-state that there's a term that describes the phenomenon: "stateless nation." So the Kurds aren't that unusual, and they aren't even the largest "stateless nation" in the world. …

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