This petition was submitted during the 2010-2015 parliament
Rejected petition Independence of Kurdistan
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The ethnic Kurdish peoples live mostly within three nations today: northern Iraq, northwestern Iran, and southern Turkey. The Kurds were one of the only ethnic groups formerly under the control of the Ottoman Empire that did not manage to eke out a nation for themselves after World War I when the empire collapsed.
In Iraq they were violently repressed and persecuted under Saddam Hussein's regime for years, but since the first Iraq War of 1990 and the American enforced no-fly zones, they have thrived in quasi-independence.
In Iran they are a persecuted minority. Some Iranian Kurds have formed militias which have engaged in guerrilla actions against the Iranian government.
In Turkey they are a persecuted minority who have waged a violent struggle for independence for decades.
The action I want the government to take? To not create, but give back their rightful Independance.
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