The Kurds Fought ISIS, then the US Abandoned Them
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The Kurdish people are arguably the largest stateless ethnic group in the world. Millions of people who share a culture, ethnic background, and language, but don’t have power over their own future. And importantly, they’ve been used as a tool by global powers trying to influence the middle east for decades.
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— VIDEO CHAPTERS —
00:00 Intro
03:45 Snapshot of the Kurdish Movements
07:16 A Tool for Conflict
11:39 The Syrian Civil War
14:27 The State of the Kurds Today
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love the Kurds!!!! They must have own homeland! Like Jews and Zionism 🇮🇱
America must support the Kurds!!!
when Ottoman took over those lands there were no Kurdistan. there were Kurds and they lived under Ottomons or before them Kurds were always under other's managment.
durng the history who had those lands: Hurri–Mitanni → Asur → Urartu → Med → Pers → Part → Sasanî → Arap Halifeliği → Selçuklu → Eyyubi → Osmanlı → Türkiye/İran/Irak/Suriye.
you want to change the world map to back 12 century. then lets do it for whole world.
WW1 Britain, SSCB, France tried to use Armenians first but failed. they even today try to use them aganist Turks. and then they turned their goal to the Kurds. and hey dont think they will give those lands to Kurds. they will hand those places to Isreal after they complate their plan. all those troubles in Middle East created by West for Isreal.
The country was never there?
Kurds are not an ethnic group. They are an Iranian tribe and their ethnicity is Iranian. They have a country it's called Iran. The Kurds in other countries were separated from Iran by Ottoman empire and then when Ottoman empire failed they stayed in the Arab countries. Because the British didn't want Iran to expand. The country of Kurdistan has never existed in the history of the planet Earth. It was always the country of Iran Iran is their country
it was never there to begin with
Mate, this video is full of clickbait and lack of ability to see the difference between a region and a state. Lesson learned: Americans should think thrice while talking about middle east.
A good example of No Jews, No News
The Kurds, Kurdistan, the country that was erased off the map! Another victim of the evil Western powers medaling, corruption and greed! (Lots of oil there!) I feel with these people. I encountered many when I lived in Lebanon, trying to survive abroad with no country to call their own.
Free Kurdistan ❤