If you are willing to go this far, why stop there? By that line of thinking you could pretty much demographically restructure the whole Middle East and North Africa (Arabs to Arabia!), it's just pure fantasy.
And now you are just making shit up.
en.wikipedia.org
When it comes to Kurds (and some other issues), it's not about Erdogan, far from it. Kemalists had the same policy, and chances are so will whoever comes after Erdogan.
The Wiki just reinforces that yes, the ancestors of modern Turkey came to the area as conquerors with the Seljuks (who I thought were part of the Khan's subjects, but apparently this was straight Persian Empire stuff), due to language distribution.
Which is why I said that the modern nation of Turkey and their whole cultural imperialist outlook on the region and eastern Europe has been a constant source of problems for European powers since they Seljuks brought them there.
Look, Turkey needs to stop with the fuck-fuck games about Sweden and Finland and trying to push anti-Kurd laws in those nations. I'm just tired of playing nice with Erdogan and Turkey, and think reminding them people are not happy about their status as a historical belligerent to Europe and that dislike hasn't gone away just because of the Cold War and NATO.
Are there no Kurdish nationalists who would be willing to purge any communist influence in exchange for us protecting them at say the same level we do Israel?
Oh, I expect there are, but they won't get mentioned by people who just want to keep Turkey happy.
Bacle while I agree with helping Greeks and Armenians punish Turks. What you are saying is ridiculous because 800 years ago the Turks migrated into that area they are not the indigenous people? What if someone used that same logic for America oh you all are English migrants and deported you back to England. Hell under your logic you can make the claim that Ukraine is a part of Russia since Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine were all apart of the Kievan Rus so there is nothing wrong with Putin trying to reunite the separated remnants of his people/race.
Look, I want Erdogan and Turkey to stop playing these fuck-fuck games with NATO membership vs pushing anti-Kurd laws.
The denial of the Armenian genocide is bad enough, this shit has worn out my pateince for Turkey's bullshit. The nation of Turkey doesn't seem to know how to play nice when it comes to the Kurds, even in other nations, and they only seem to respond to bribes or force, and we are running out of safe ways to bribe Erdogan/Turkey.
By your logic, we should get rid of the countries Americas because our ancestors originally came from Europe. Because the Turks (that is, what we know as the Turkish people today) have been there a hell of a lot longer than Europeans have been in the Americas.
Other than the occasional Greek nationalist who fantasizes about re-establishing the Roman Empire (it wasn’t called “Byzantium” until the 19th century because prior to that, and especially prior to the 16th century, it was just “The Roman Empire).”
The Armenians aren’t exactly friendly to U.S. interests; if anything they’re closely aligned to the Russians. You seriously want to strengthen a Russian ally?
As for the Kurds, as others have said, they were allies of convenience (much as the USSR was during World War II). They tend to get portrayed somewhat sympathetically in the West because they also were opposed to Syria and Iraq over the years and ISIS more recently. They are not, however, any sort of significant ally, and their interests in many cases run counter to ours.
You don’t sound like a warhawk, you sound deranged. Real life isn’t a Paradox game where you can send troops in to shoot any rebels that pop up, or do stuff to guarantee something won’t be a problem in 20 years or what have you.
As I have said, I'm just fucking over these fuck-fuck games that Erdogan and Turkey keep playing, when they are a historical belligerent to Europe and the Cold War hasn't changed that nearly as much as many would like to pretend.
Playing nice doesn't seem to work with Turkey anymore, so all that leaves is less nice methods of getting them to not object to Finland and Sweden entering NATO.
"Let them in, or we let Greek and Armenian nationalists have more fun at your expense, and ignore the more radical Kurds." seems like a decent stick to use when we run out of carrots.