AHC/WI: Kurds with a nation

About prior to 1900: According to the two maps in the links below, the major Kurdish areas were outside effective Ottoman control in the first half of the 19th centuries. Unfortunately, I do not have much knowledge about the details here. Maybe someone else could assess the possibility of establishing a Kurdish state some time between 1800 and 1840? Would it be able to survive? Or would the Ottomans be able to reconquer the area?

http://gulf2000.columbia.edu/images/maps/Islamic_States_1800_lg.png

http://gulf2000.columbia.edu/images/maps/Islamic_States_1840_lg.png

Just checking my sources it seems like there were a couple reasons why a Kurdish state in that time period is improbable:

Firstly demographics isn't on their side, the city of Dyabakir the capital of eastern Anatolia lost over half their population and the mountainous village areas were mainly immigrating to the Coastal cities like Izmir, Istanbul and Aleppo which were growing.

The Ottomans were embroiled in the Oriental crises already, and it was at this time that the dynasty was being propped up by Russian, Austrian and British armies. A potential Kurdish leader following along the example of Mehmet Ali would probably wind up being put down by Russian troops, especially if any Christians are harmed by this Kurdish leader.
 
Could Russia have accepted a Kurdish state in non-Armenian areas if they did not attack Armenians and other groups of Christians, like the Assyrians? After all, a Kurdish state could serve to weaken the Ottoman Empire.
 
Could Russia have accepted a Kurdish state in non-Armenian areas if they did not attack Armenians and other groups of Christians, like the Assyrians? After all, a Kurdish state could serve to weaken the Ottoman Empire.

In which timeframe? They would have likely gone along with it in the 1880s I suppose, but AFAIK there was no significant push whatsoever for such a thing at the time.
A problem is that Kurdish, Assyrian and Armenian areas were for the most part pretty heavily mixed all over at that point, with Arabs and Turks quite widespread as well. Establishing anything resembling a somewhat fair national border would have been even worse there than in Balkans.
On the other hand, Russians would have likely not cared much. In the event of a collapse or radical reduction of the OE, a possibility is that they would have absorbed the areas (such as the Erzurum vilayet) with a larger Armenian presence, and possibly propped up a "Kurdish" state with a significant population of Christians of various origin and denomination (mostly Assyrians and Armenians), as such noticeable Christian presence would have provided a permanent reason for them to exert some degree of control over it.
This, however, assumes some level of Kurdish willingness to establish a nation-state, something that I don't think was politically very relevant at that point (although some signs probably had appeared already).
 
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