Interesting ideas.
In my Century of the Common Man TL in working, I've thought about the possibility of setting up an independent Kurdistan by the late 1920s as a consequence of Turkey losing its independence war to Greeks and Armenians.
Armenia would have an Israel like mentality in matter of foreign and defense policy with a strategical "paranoia" due to the Armenian genocide.
ITTL, the context of a friendly SR Russia to Armenia prevented Turkey from invading Armenia as it did IOTL, and the setbacks against Greece led to diverting forces from the Armenian border, allowing an Armenian breakout, supported with British and French tanks, to take Trabzon, Erzincan and Van within the Wilsonian borders.
Now, Turkey would not immediatly lose Kurdistan in the war, but the weakened Turkish state would find it increasingly difficult to enforce rule over Kurdistan, now a sailient between Armenia and northern Iraq. My idea has been to expand upon the OTL Kurdish uprisings that took place in the 1920s, to see them more or less covertly supported, trained, armed and funded by Armenia which would be seeking to secure its southern border with an ally of its own against Turkey.
How do you think that could go with a Juche Kurdistan here?
There may not be Communist Russia, but the socialist ideology is not yet absent (Russia is controlled by SRs), and I don't see elements (radical secularism, promotion of Zoroastrian culture, socialist economy, cult of personality, authoritarianism, dynasty) that can't appear on their own in this environment.