Complex sentence: Despite the size of the Kurdish population, the Kurds have always been a minority in their respective nation states since the fall of the Ottoman Empire, currently occupying minorities in the adjacent areas of Syria, Turkey, Iran, and Iraq.
Split into simpler sentences: Despite the size of the Kurdish population, the Kurds have always been a minority in their respective nation states since the fall of the Ottoman Empire. Kurds occupy minorities in the adjacent areas of Syria, Turkey, Iran, and Iraq.