![]() ![]() Kurds that favor separation from Turkey are called separatists. Many Kurds living in Turkey wish to unite with Kurds from Iran, Iraq, and Syria and establish their own country, Kurdistan. The Turkish government fears that any form of official recognition that the Kurds are distinct from the Turkish people would encourage the Kurds to push harder to form a new nation out of Turkish territory. Turkey has long considered recognition of the Kurdish people and their culture a threat to Turkish unity. It is not die and kill, but live and let live." The language and method of solution of our age is dialogue, compromise and peace. Kurds descended from Indo-European people who have inhabited the mountainous regions of southeastern Turkey, northern Iran, northeastern Iraq, and northeastern Syria for at least four thousand years. Leyla grew up in the village of Silvan near Diyarbakir, a city in southeastern Turkey with a large Kurdish population. Leyla Zana is a Turkish citizen of Kurdish ancestry. ![]()
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