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>Turkish citizen with Kurdish origin

That may answer your question why they may not be excited to stay in Turkey.

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I'm shocked, but encouraged to hear, there are essentially no generational effects you note of the oppression Kurdish people experienced.

This sentiment may not be repeatable concerning effects of Turkish government on Kurdish peoples outside the border of Turkey, particularly in Bashur Kurdistan and Rojava (especially Afrin Canton where hundreds of Kurdish civilians were killed in connection with events proximal to what Turkish government refers to as 'Operation Olive Branch'). I can't imagine there are warm fuzzies inside knowing your tax money goes to murdering fellow Kurds near your borders.

I am just curious, do you currently live in Turkey? Or, do you currently live in any of the places you mentioned?

I fought with the YPG for a number of months, during which time I lived in Rojava.

YPG is a organization with plenty of Kurdisch nationalists in it. Just like any extremist, whatever an extremist claims needs to be filtered and fact checked, and then taken with a pinch of salt.

The question was whether I had lived in any of those places. The answer is to a limited extent I have.

Damned if I say yes, damned if I say no. You reveal it's just a bad faith trap -- I'll just be dismissed whether the answer is I have lived there at all or I haven't.

>YPG is a organization with plenty of Kurdisch [sic] nationalists in it.

And Turkey is a country with plenty of Turkish nationalists in it. By that logic you argue any Turkish citizen is an extremist. Feel free to 'fact check' and come up with whatever extremist rhetoric you'd like to use to dismiss away the fatal effect on civilians of recent Turkish-backed incursions into Afrin Canton.

Not necessarily. Things improved a lot in past 30 years, I would say Turks and Kurds suffer almost equally nowadays.

> I would say Turks and Kurds suffer almost equally nowadays.

That is quite the truth.

Source: Turkish citizen with Turkish origin with brown skin :)

AFAIK, most kurds feel excited to be part of Turkey.

Maybe we met different Kurds. I met a lot in Iraq and Syria and most of the ones I met balked at even having to speak Turkish (even if they could speak fluently), let alone be part of the country. I imagine some of the ones I met were blown apart by Turkish forces some time after I left Rojava.

I'm a white Turk, 1,87cm in height, with green eyes, and I am socially accepted even in the nordic Europe peninsula. Guess what? My sister is getting married to a Kurdish guy, and I will be visiting the Kurdish-dominated part of Turkey this summer for the wedding. I will be able to tell you whether Kurds are bad or good firsthand, and also, I can't wait to load up a bunch of AK-47s and hand generates and shoot them over the sky during the wedding ceremony.

This statement is on the same level of nonsense as saying the Ukrainians are thrilled to host their Russian neighbours presently.

But the other way around, since russians are Ukraine's kurds. The number 2 ethnicity that nobody ever talked about.

That comparison might make some sense if Kurdistan were a enormous global power and shared a huge land border with Turkey. When in fact, Kurdistan [checks atlas] does not exist at all as an independent country, much less a dominant world power.

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