The Kurdish people have long been struggling for self-determination to establish an independent state in the area straddling northern Syria, southeastern Turkey, northwestern Iran and northern Iraq.
Malaon nang nakikibaka ang mamamayang Kurds para sa pagpapasya-sa-sarili upang makapagtatag ng isang independyenteng estado sa eryang sumasaklaw sa hilagang Syria, timog-silangang Turkey, hilagang-kanlurang Iran at hilagang Iraq.