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Independence in Turkey means 'huge' Turk giveaway .. wow, i wasn't aware of these numbers ..

Most Kurds live in Turkey, where their numbers are estimated at 14,000,000 people by the CIA world factbook (18% of population). A report commissioned by the National Security Council (Turkey) in 2000 puts the number at 12,600,000 people, or 15.7% of the population. One Western source estimates that up to 25% of the Turkish population is Kurdish (approximately 18-19 million people). Kurdish nationalists put the figure at 20,000,000 to 25,000,000. All of the above figures are for the number of people who identify as Kurds, not the number who speak a Kurdish language, but include both Kurds and Zazas
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurds_in_Turkey#Demographics

It looks in Iraq Kurdistan is gaining territory.

Halabja: City of Peace becomes Kurdistan’s fourth province

By Osamah Golpy 13 hours ago .. one bit..

Many Halabja residents queued in colorful Kurdish outfits outside the Halabja Monument, the memorial site for the victims of the 1988 Halabja attack. They were welcoming Kurdish legislators, the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) delegation headed by deputy Prime Minister Qubad Talabani and guests from the Iraqi parliament. Also present were Kurdish Iraqi MPs, who could secure the official recognition of the city’s new status in the 2015 Iraqi federal budget with the allocation of a nominal budget of 2 billion Iraqi dinars (approximately $1.5 million) for the development of the city.

Although officially Halabja would become the fourth province of Kurdistan -- after Erbil, Sulaimani and Duhok -- the people of Halabja and Kurds at large regard it as the fifth, after the much-debated Kirkuk Province, seen as the “Jerusalem of Kurdistan.”
http://rudaw.net/english/kurdistan/08022015

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In Syria.

Syria Kurds seize from IS a third of villages around Kobane
AFP - 7 hours ago
http://news.yahoo.com/syria-kurds-seize-third-villages-around-kobane-183243180.html

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The World’s Next Country

The Kurds are on the verge of getting a homeland of their own. If they do, the Middle East will never be the same.

By Christian Caryl
January 21, 2015


http://foreignpolicy.com/2015/01/21/the-worlds-next-country-kurdistan-kurds-iraq/

LOL, one good picture of a long-term a survivor, i reckon .. well done, sir ..

On the verge, definition required, :) could leave a little to be desired in the reality
now headline stakes, though optimism beats negativism so it's better than nought .. chuckle ..

Cheers bulldzr, good for me, too .. a good refresher on heaps .. and have learned much of new, tooooo ..