WI: Assyrian State

What if some time in the years following the dissolution the the Ottoman Empire a state for the Assyrian people was established? If there was one, what would its effects on the world be? Of course, it would probably be tiny, maybe not so much if there hadn't been an Assyrian genocide. This would also mean there would probably end up being a Kurdish state, maybe a state for the even smaller Chaldeo-Assyrians and possibly other ethnic groups, like the Pontic Greeks.
I just think the Assyrians, along with the Kurds and Armenians, got the very short end of the stick of history and think it would be interesting to have a state for them.
 

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As I pointed out in the other Assyria thread the territory where the Assyrians were the majority was very small on the border between modern Turkey and Iraq. And the Assyrian genocide 1920-21 when Kurds and Turks attacked the Assyrians on the Turkish side of the border meant the end of the Assyrian territory there. I think for an Assyrian state they'd need both the Turkish and Iraqi territory and it would still be a very little nation. They'd need British support (to get the territory Iraq got IRL) and we'd need a failed Kemalist reconquest of Anatolia. Still Assyria would need regional allies to survive, since neither the Turks, Kurds nor the Arabs would look kindly on a Assyrian nation.
 
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