Never stopped Israel, all the Kurds need is a perfect storm and once they exist someone on the outside to support them.A major issue would be that the countries surrounding the Kurdish state would be hostile to it.
Interesting would the mentality of such a Kurdish state without Socialist influence of the later 20th Century autonomous movements in Kurdish majority areas.Entente decide create Kurdistan after WW1. I don't know then how to make that succesful whatever it means.
Kurds are landlocked, Israel is not. Doesn't matter how well superior your troops are if they can't shoot anything.Never stopped Israel, all the Kurds need is a perfect storm and once they exist someone on the outside to support them.
The OP map clearly shows a small bit of coastline for Kurdistan between Syria and Turkey.Kurds are landlocked, Israel is not. Doesn't matter how well superior your troops are if they can't shoot anything.
Depends on circumstance in which they gain independence. If it's context of Europeans granting them independence my point doesn't stand . If it is in the context of an armed rebellion than it does.The OP map clearly shows a small bit of coastline for Kurdistan between Syria and Turkey.
The Turkish portion could be possible if the Turks lose their War of Independence, and/or if they join the Nazis in WW2 and have the Kurdish regions partitioned off. If Kurdistan already existed, the Iraqi portion could be possible if the British decided to punish Iraq following an alternate analogue to the 1941 coup.
Why is Kurdistan so special to Turkey, as opposed to all the other territories they've lost?
It pretty closely matches the distribution of the Kurdish population IOTL.This isn't a Kurdish state, this is a Kurdish empire. Probably comes complete with a second Assyrian genocide.
Wasn't that the whole point of Britain's support for the Arab revolt?Cannot even fathom the amount of butterflies needed, but let's try and keep it contained.
Instead of landings near Gallipoli peninsula in 1915, land near the valley near Tarsus and have Kurdish independence fighters help the entente. So instead of trying to capture the heavily defended Bosporus, the Entente attempts to split the ottoman Empire in half.
Some thing which i am not certain about:
- Were there significant defenses/forces in the Valley near Tarsus?
- Is there a significant Kurdish independence movement in 1915.
- Which event/action by the ottoman empire in WW1 would warrant a heavy handed measure like splitting up the country.
- What would be required for the British push north through Iraq to be more successful.